The Cannonball Run
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several… From TMDB
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60 of 132 · most liked firstmy dad was in the Cannonball Run (the real race the movie was based on) and got this trophy
unlabelledView post →This week can only be described as "back-loaded" The Cannonball Run (1981) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Odd Man Out (1947) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️
unlabelledView post →Tonight is silly movie night with The Cannonball Run.
unlabelledView post →Somedays, we're all about serious film criticism, but other days we're reviewing The Gumball Rally, a genial precursor to the Cannonball Run movies. This was a prime time movie on BBC 1 when I was 13, and it deserves more that a miserly 29 percent rating on RT. 3/5 film-authority.com/2025/09/17/t...
unlabelledView post →1000 TAPES 001 I wrote about The Cannonball Run, Cold Sweat, The Hudsucker Proxy, the Hulk Hogan 3 Ninjas movie, Insane Clown Posse’s Strangle-Mania, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. All the stars are here. partlygarbage.com/2025/01/26/1...
unlabelledView post →Remembering cult film icon and the star of Smokey and the Bandit 2 and The Cannonball Run star Dom DeLuise on the anniversary of his birth. R.I.P. 1933 - 2008
unlabelledView post →***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on December 7th in the UK and December 8th in North America on #4K/Blu-ray dual format from #ToyRobotVideo: #SharkysMachine (1981)! "Gutsy. The best American film noir since BODY HEAT." - Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice Burt Reynolds (THE CANNONBALL RUN, BOOGIE NIGHTS)
unlabelledView post →Poster for the movie, “The Cannonball Run” (1981), directed by Hal Needham. Poster art by Drew Struzan (1947-2025).
unlabelledView post →Whatever you do, please DO NOT call this "The Cannonball Run 3"! This film, featuring birthday boy TIM MATHESON will only answer to the title "SPEED ZONE" Totally unrelated movies since nobody is slapping the shit out of Dom DeLuise in this one.
unlabelledView post →It's a long weekend, let's ring in the summer with a movie! Speed Zone, the third installment in the Cannonball Run series and which has a whopping 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes! Let's race! www.twitch.tv/QueenPiB
unlabelledView post →I was today years old when I found out there was a third movie in the Cannonball Run series. I have never heard of the movie Speed Zone (1989) much less knowing it’s technically Cannonball Run III (as it’s called in some countries or also called Cannonball Fever).
unlabelledView post →TRIVIA: According to his autobiography 'I Am Jackie Chan: My Life In Action', both this film and 'The Cannonball Run' were made while he was living in exile from Hong Kong due to a Triad-backed negotiation over his contract between Golden Harvest and his former employer Wei Lo. (IMDB) 🖤
unlabelledView post →Tonight's movie "The Cannonball Run"
unlabelledView post →Imagine the hubris to call the 1965 Jesus film The Greatest Story Ever Told and imagining that would remain the case and not having the imagination to realise The Cannonball Run would be released in 1981
unlabelledView post →The Cannonball Run was released in movie theaters 44 years ago today. This movie had one of the biggest all-star casts in movie history. youtu.be/evA3_NV7cPM?... #Movies #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →Okay, I wanted to explain this one. When I was a younger man, in the movie 'The Cannonball Run 2' there is a scene where some mobsters attempt to distract a driver by having a lady flash them. It worked. #aiart #ainude #aiboobs #ainude
unlabelledView post →Good morning, those of the Bluesky Realm! Enjoy your #Friday and stay safe out there! Ok, so I'm sitting here having my first cup of #coffee and looking at movie stuff online this morning and end up getting The Cannonball Run theme song in my head. youtu.be/evA3_NV7cPM?... #Movies #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →I love watching THE CANNONBALL RUN. Burt Reynolds is faking his own laugh from SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT so badly he’s just making this bizarre strangled noise, and it won’t cut away, and you’re like “this was the #6 movie of the year”
unlabelledView post →How in the hell did the Fast and the Furious get so popular without anyone trying to remake The Cannonball Run? (signed, someone who just sat down and watched the entirety of The Cannonball Run in one sitting for the first time in his life)
unlabelledView post →Quote repost chain thingy Name 4 of your favorite 80s movies (non horror). Mine are: Scrooged (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) The Cannonball Run (1981) Empire of the Sun (1987)
unlabelledView post →Yeah, I'd love to do some work but I've just discovered there was a terrible third film in the 'Cannonball Run' series and I'm reading all about it
unlabelledView post →SLEEZ ’N’ CHEEZ IV: THE CRACKDOWN continues with tonight's movie: Hal Needham’s THE CANNONBALL RUN (1980)
unlabelledView post →Once again reminded that The Cannonball Run movies came about because the guy who put on the real race discovered someone imported the first Countach *specifically for the race* and realized things were getting out of hand. That same car is in the movie.
unlabelledView post →#AprilMovieChallenge Day 20: movie about auto racing The Cannonball Run #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
unlabelledView post →The Cannonball Run (1981) was originally planned as an action movie starring Steve McQueen. After McQueen's death, the lead went to Burt Reynolds, and the movie became a comedy. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →For #OctoberMovieChallenge for @omacolt.bsky.social by Day 5... someone runs a great distance, does the Cannonball Run count?? weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/t...
unlabelledView post →My ★★★½ review of The Cannonball Run on Letterboxd boxd.it/apitaZ #filmsky #moviesky #Letterboxd
unlabelledView post →I just want to buy the U.S. rights to The Cannonball Run and screen it at different theaters across the US and Canada, like an actual touring schedule. That or open up my own small theater that shows Cannonball, The Muppet Movie, Shawshank Redemption, and Caddyshack plus pre-movie Looney Tunes
unlabelledView post →Gumball Rally was a lot better than the Cannonball Run series. Both were absolutely drive-in movie staples when I was a kid.
unlabelledView post →OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins to discuss Speed Zone, theoretically a third entry in the Cannonball Run series. Can three SCTV alumni save a film with no story or jokes? Why do we keep doing this? We think it had something to do with something called Carquake? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
unlabelledView post →1 August 1933 – 2009 Dom DeLuise, 75, US actor, singer. Fail Safe * The Glass Bottom Boat * Who Is Harry Kellerman ... * Blazing Saddles * Silent Movie * The Cheap Detective * Hot Stuff (+ director) * Smokey and the Bandit * The Cannonball Run * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas * Men in Tights
unlabelledView post →There was a part 3 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Zone > Speed Zone (also known as Cannonball Run III, Cannonball Fever, One for the Money and Speedzone Fever) .... The film is the third and final installment of the Cannonball Run trilogy and a sequel to The Cannonball Run (1981) and Cannonball Run II (1983)
unlabelledView post →My point being those were over forty years ago now, and the mustache has fallen out of favor since. Pedro played a Reynolds analog in a Kingsmen movie. He was the bad guy. Oddly enough, my dad novelized The Cannonball Run…
unlabelledView post →I watched The Cannonball Run for the first time in fifteen years last week and that movie really, really sucks. I love it
unlabelledView post →I have seen The Cannonball Run several times. You think I, of all people, could resist a film featuring Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin posing as Catholic priests?
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching: 'The Cannonball Run' (1981) Dir. by Hal Needham. Burt Reynolds became the highest paid actor in cinema history up to that point, for this movie, making $5 million for four weeks work. #TheSceneSnobs My profile on Letterboxd boxd.it/19fDZ
unlabelledView post →THE CANNONBALL RUN wasn’t a Rat Pack film simply because Sammy and Deano appeared in it.
unlabelledView post →Fundamentally change a movie with punctuation The Cannonball! Run!
unlabelledView post →The Cannonball Run was released in movie theaters 45 years ago today. Love the intro! That song will be in my head all morning. youtu.be/kk1vbwb6vS8 #Movies #Cinema #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →Here's a weird one. The Gumball Rally was a car race movie, but unlike Rat Race or even the Cannonball Run, this one was not meant for anyone under 13. I saw it age 8.
unlabelledView post →This movie is great, and not just because of this scene (but it helps). THE CANNONBALL RUN (1981) #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Tonight's distraction movie is The Cannonball Run (1981) starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett and Dom DeLuise. We wanted a lighter comedy tonight given everything.
unlabelledView post →Romancing The Stone Raiders Of The Lost Ark The Cannonball Run Cannonball Run II The Muppet Movie The Great Muppet Caper TRON Better Off Dead The Princess Bride The Goonies Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Big Trouble In Little China AIRPLANE! Throw Momma From The Train SPACEBALLS (cont...)
unlabelledView post →I always got Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and At The Earth's Core mixed up but wanted to see a film like The Cannonball Run, but instead of cars, giant drills were racing to the middle of the planet finishing line. The movie ends with the Earth splitting like a Terry's chocolate orange.
unlabelledView post →Feel free to join in & to search for other people's #RandomMovieGiF Thank you to all who are/have posted Welcome to all joining. The tag details are below🙂 The Cannonball Run (1981)
unlabelledView post →Just watched The Cannonball Run. It’s a truly terrible film. I loved it.
unlabelledView post →THE CANNONBALL RUN (1981) * Watch 3 My dad took me to this during its original "run" A hang-out movie of the finest order By that I mean...the process of making the movie was probably more fun than the movie itself 😆 Still, some cool cars. And the bloopers...
unlabelledView post →45 years ago today, on Aug. 7, 1981, "Escape From New York" opened in Green Bay. Love that film. Other films playing in Green Bay at the time: "Stripes," "Zorro, the Gay Blade," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Cannonball Run," "S.O.B.," "Blow Out," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Heavy Metal." Wow.
unlabelledView post →Weekly Movie: THE CANNONBALL RUN (1981): They sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore. I grew up loving this flick’s kooky characters, stunts & Dom DeLuise’s Captain Chaos! Also, the theme song is still a banger! The cross country race idea is ripe for a remake but the comedy sure needs an update!
unlabelledView post →I finally got around to watching the Cannonball Run movies in their entirety, thinking I’d only seen random bits & pieces of them as a kid, when it turned out I’d only ever seen parts of the first movie and not even a single frame of the second - THAT’S what a jumbled mess Cannonball Run I is.
unlabelledView post →The Cannonball Run (1981) Freaking hilarious from start to finish, Hal Needham was a comedy genius and this film is another proof of that. It's a cleverly written film filled with a great cast of actors (shout outs to Roger Moore for playing a parody of himself) and I wasn't disappointed seeing it.
unlabelledView post →It's 1:15am, but fuck it, i'm doing a fourth old car movie. starting The Cannonball Run (1981). all these Jackie Chan movies i've watched the last few years...i did not expect to see the Golden Harvest logo at the beginning of this.
unlabelledView post →Had a great time talking about The Cannonball Run with @chrismaverick.bsky.social and the folks at @voxpopcast.bsky.social. This 1981 movie took me back to Friday nights drinking Miller High Life in 2001. Listen for it soon!
unlabelledView post →I've never seen a Bond movie but my favorite Bond is Roger Moore based on his appearance in The Cannonball Run.
unlabelledView post →I rewatched The Cannonball Run recently. It was my favorite movie when I was 10-11 years old. Not only does it not hold up but it's shockingly bad. A strange collection of ill-conceived bits and tuned-out, aging celebs barely giving a half-assed performance.
unlabelledView post →#MrPhilsFilms 777 THE ARMOUR OF GOD (1986) Dir: Jackie Chan Format: UK Blu-ray Keep it/Bin it: Keep it Notes: I think this was the first Jackie Chan film I ever saw (aside from THE CANNONBALL RUN) after seeing clips on The Incredibly Strange Film Show. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Sir John Mills in Zombi 2. Ronnie Corbett in Get Carter. Derek Guyler in A Serbian Film. Peggy Mount in The Cannonball Run. Donald Wolfitt in Top Gun: Maverick. Anton Rodgers in Stop, Or Mom Will Shoot. Angela Lansbury in Emmanuelle.
unlabelledView post →what's even funnier is that his character is inspired by Hal Needham - the same guy who inspired Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - who was also a top tier stuntman who later graduated into film directing and did a bunch of bombastic films with Burt Reynolds. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel could easily be the making of The Cannonball Run.
unlabelledView post →🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on June 19! What's your fave? 1. Batman Returns 2. The Cannonball Run 3. I Am Vengeance: Retaliation 4. El Condor Check out all 51 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Action
unlabelledView post →Nearest we’ve had is The Cannonball Run. I love that film! 🤣🤣 #sts70s
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