The Cannonball Run
The Cannonball Run is a 1981 comedy film about a wide variety of eccentric competitors who participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.
- Directed by Hal Needham. Written by Brock Yates.
You'll root for them all...but you'll never guess who wins.
Organizer
[edit]- Of course you know certain skeptics note that perhaps 10,000 of the nations' most elite highway patrolmen are out there waiting for us after we start, but let's stay positively: Think of the fact that there's not one state in the 50 that has the death penalty for speeding... although I'm not so sure about Ohio.
Dialogue
[edit]- Fenderbaum: We've got a secret weapon. God is our co-pilot!
- The Geek: You'll need him!
- Jamie Blake: *God* is our co-pilot?
- Fenderbaum: Uh huh...
- Jamie Blake: Remember our car?
- Fenderbaum: Uh huh...
- Jamie Blake: Two seats?
- Fenderbaum: Two seats...
- Jamie Blake: Where's he gonna sit? [smack] Where's he gonna sit? [smack]
- Fenderbaum: Why'd he call me Shorty?
- Jamie Blake: 'Cause you're small. Small. S - M - all.
- The Sheik: My driving is rivaled only by the lightning bolts from the heavens!
- [thunder crashes]
- Shiek's Sister: So you still intend to enter the race with the infidel Americans?
- The Sheik: The Cannonball will fall to the forces of Islam! [thunder crashes] My dear sister! I swear it!
- Mr. Foyt: Terrorists my dimpled ass! These people make terrorists look like the Sisters of Charity! These guys are Cannonballers!
- Pamela Glover: What is that? A bowling team?
- Mr. Foyt: Well, how do you all feel now you have raped the American highways?
- J.J. McClure: Beautiful!
- J.J. McClure: Thanks to you, Victor, we do not have a female patient in the back.
- Victor Prinsi: Well, it's not my fault that she didn't fit in the stretcher!
- J.J. McClure: She doesn't fit in the AMBULANCE!
- [finding the men's room locked, Van Helsing follows Pamela into the women's room]
- Pamela Glover: Wait a minute, you can't come in here.
- Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing: Madam, not to be indelicate but in my profession; if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
- Pamela Glover: Oh, okay.
- Fenderbaum: [Fenderbaum and Blake's Ferrari drives alongside J.J.'s ambulance] Pull over! We want to give you our blessing!
- Victor Prinsi: J.J., there are two priest in that car. They want us to pull over.
- J.J. McClure: Victor, that's two priests driving a Ferrari. When's the last time you saw two priests drive a Ferrari? What are they doing, taking home the bingo money?
- Victor Prinsi: No, they're doing the work of the Lord. In a Ferrari, they can just do it faster.
- Fenderbaum: [noticing Blake acting oddly at bar] What is it?
- Jamie Blake: Look at the chicks! Boy, if they were Methodists, what a shot we could have had of getting laid right here.
- [guy at bar overhearing spits his drink out]
Cast
[edit]- Burt Reynolds - J.J. McClure
- Dom DeLuise - Victor Prinzi
- Roger Moore - Seymour Goldfarb, Jr.
- Farrah Fawcett - Pamela Glover
- Dean Martin - Jamie Blake
- Sammy Davis Jr. - Fenderbaum
- George Furth - Arthur J. Foyt
- Jackie Chan - Mitsubishi Driver #1
- Jamie Farr - Sheik Abdul ben Falafel
- Terry Bradshaw - Terry
- Mel Tillis - Mel
- Adrienne Barbeau - Marcie Thatcher
- Tara Buckman - Jill Rivers
- Peter Fonda - Chief Biker
- Bert Convy - Bradford Compton
- Jack Elam - Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing
- Rick Aviles - Mad Dog
- John Fiedler - the desk clerk
- Joe Klecko - the Polish driver
- Brock Yates - the race organizer
- Hal Needham - the ambulance EMT (uncredited)
- Ken Squier - a California Highway Patrolman
External links
[edit]
- The Cannonball Run quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Cannonball Run at Rotten Tomatoes