Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham, and starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Mike Henry, Paul Williams and Pat McCormick. The film is the second installment of the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy in the Smokey and the Bandit franchise and a sequel to Smokey and the Bandit (1977).
Plot
Big Enos Burdette is in a mudslinging campaign against John Conn for Governor of Texas. After failing to get the outgoing governor's endorsement, Big Enos overhears him on the phone ordering a crate in Miami to be delivered in nine days to the Republican National Convention in Dallas. Burdette schemes to earn the governor's endorsement and have the crate delivered to the convention in his name and tracks down Cledus "Snowman" Snow and offers him and Bo "Bandit" Darville $200,000 to do the run. Cledus takes Big Enos and his son Little Enos to Bandit to make the offer in person, but Bandit has become a heavy drinker since breaking up with Carrie ("Frog") and is drunk when the Burdettes arrive and double the payoff to $400,000. Cledus accepts on Bandit's behalf, but adds that Big Enos should give them half in advance, to which they agree. Cledus is ecstatic, but Bandit begins to miss Carrie.
More details
| author | Hal Needham Jerry Belson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Florida |
| director | Hal Needham |
| editor | Donn Cambern William D. Gordean |
| genre | action comedy thriller |
| keywords | act asian elephant break demolition derby draw drive effeminacy effeminate elephant g.o.p. governor of texas greyhound bus greyhound lines gynaecology gynecologist last chance mountie sergeant mudslinging negative campaigning outgo quebec republican national convention republican party rid royal canadian mounted police runaway bride strand their way trans am want |
| musicBy | Snuff Garrett |
| producer | Hank Moonjean |
| productionCompany | Rastar |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | action comedy chase sequel |