Off topic: Anyone remember this movie?

Ethan Chamberlain · Aug 4, 2013

I got to thinking today about a movie that I saw long ago, but I only remember the beginning. How that came into my head again I"m not sure, but I"d like to know what movie it is. It"s about bootlegging beer in the south in the 70"s I believe. It wasn"t a Bandit movie. The only part I remember is at the beginning there is a new 70"s orange and white Kenworth with the driver leaning against it in a parking lot. The cops show up and make the driver open up the trailer to find it loaded with beer. That"s all I remember if it. Does anybody know what movie this is? Thanks

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

smokey and the bandit

Ethan Chamberlain · Aug 4, 2013

The Smokey and the bandit movie I saw never started like that. Opening seen was the grill of the KW in that one I believe. With Jerry Reed singing

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Burt Reynolds as Bandit

Sally Field as Carrie

Jerry Reed as Cledus

Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice of Portague County

Mike Henry as Junior

Paul Williams as Little Enos

Pat McCormick as Big Enos

Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of bootleg beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

The first smokey and the bandit movie started with them showing other drivers getting busted for hauling bootleg beer for big Enos.
Big and little Enos go to a truck race and talk to Cledus then Cledus goes gets Bandit

There were three Bandit movies the last one had Jerry Reed as Cledus but not Burt as the Bandit

JerryS · Aug 4, 2013

If the movie you're referring to is "Smokey and the Bandit", and it probably is, it's depicting an odd thing that occurred in the early 70s. Coors Beer suddenly caught on big with beer drinkers and Coors was selling every drop it made, but all in the western states. Texas was the eastern-most distribution point for a time. People were scrambling and fighting to get Coors distributorships, and beer drinkers were driving long distances to get Coors. I lived in Houston at the time and it was hard to get even then. People who traveled to western states were hauling cases of the stuff back home for themselves and friends.

In "Smokey", some rich guy in Atlanta, Ga., wanted Coors for a party or wedding reception, so he hired Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed to go to Texas to pick up a load and get it back by party time: "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana (Tex./Ark.)"

A good movie about the more traditional form of bootlegging was "Thunder Road", with Robert Mitchum: "Now let me tell the story, I can tell it all, about the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol. His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load, and when his engine roared they called the highway Thunder Road." As I recall, Mitchum drove a souped-up '49 Merc with great skill.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

Sorry I posted all of that
If you said it wasn't a Bandit then I don't know
There was a TV show called "Moving On" wieh Claude Akins about two independent truckers trying to compete with the big outfits

John_PA · Aug 4, 2013

the only other movie I can think of is the great American hero. Not sure about the bootlegging scenes, but lots of good action.

Ethan Chamberlain · Aug 4, 2013

No I'm glad for the replys. I thought I remembered the first and second bandit movies, but I never did see the third. You said the first one started with drivers getting busted. That must be it then. I didn't think it was a bandit movie but I could be wrong. Thank you

Ethan Chamberlain · Aug 4, 2013

I do remember Movin On. That was a green kw in that one.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

"GATOR MCCLUSKY" bert renolds......ford ltd with a 4 speed

Super Trucker · Aug 4, 2013

Smokey and The Bandit. Truck in question is a Kw W 925 with a 36" coffin bunk. 3 revenuers pull up in a black car tell the driver to open up. Head guy is in a tan coat smoking a pipe. No I never seen the movie LOL.

ericlb · Aug 4, 2013

its the introduction to the original smokey and the bandit[ 1977] this orange kw is the attempt prior to the bandits becoming involved in the beer run, while there is a replicia of the bandit truck which is correct to the movie truck, both tractor and trailer, its not one of the 3 bandit kw's used in the movie, one of the originals is rummored to be sitting in a field somewhere in gorgia [ from american trucker tv show, also the green/ green movin on kw is alive and well, making a few shows during the season]

Ethan Chamberlain · Aug 4, 2013

Ok I had to check out the beginning of the movie I've got and it doesn't start like that. Mine is a DVD version. Where can I find the full movie then?

Mark - IN. · Aug 4, 2013

I took my girlfriend to the drive in to see that movie. Saw the beginning of the movie, didn't see anything else until the lights came on. Drive in theaters were great.

Mark

D beatty · Aug 4, 2013

The show with the orange and white cabover KW was BJ & The Bear.The show with the beer Was Smokie and The Bandit and it was a black and gold convential KW. The show Moviing On was a green KW convential. Got to see the truck from Movingon was a green KW convential. I saw it when it made a lay over for repairs in South Bend ,IN.

C W Hinton · Aug 4, 2013

The car Robert Mitchum drove in "Thunder Road" was a 1950 Ford w/several '51 Ford body parts.

JerryS · Aug 4, 2013

Thanks. I should have remembered that since my first car was a '50 Ford.

T in NE · Aug 4, 2013

The first one was mostly ad-libbed, just couldn't replicate it for the second. Then the third, Reynolds must not have wanted to do it, they had the snowman (Cledus Snow [Jerry Reed]) drive the car, trying to keep Sheriff Justice from making a cross-country road trip carrying a sign for the Enos's new fish-and-chips place.

The first one, the Enos's hire Burt Reynolds to haul the beer, then he gets the car and Jerry Reed to drive the truck. Jerry Reed's movie wife tries kicking Burt Reynolds out and Jerry Reed doesn't want to do it til he hears about the $80,000 they'll get paid if they do it.

If you watch the opening, when his foot slams down and the trailer brakes lock up, he slammed his foot on the throttle.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2013

The movie begins with Mitchum driving a 50 Ford, but he replaces it with a 57 Ford, which he is driving when he has the fatal wreck.

Pay close attention to the revenue agents, who chase after him several times in the movie. In some scenes they are driving a Buick, in others, a Chevy.

Pete in MD · Aug 4, 2013

IIRC Coors beer wasn't pasteurised in '70s and had to be refridgerated from the time it was brewed until it was consumed. This might be why it was only available in the western states.

504-1 · Aug 4, 2013

Am I the only on to see White Line Fever, it came out just after the road stripes changed from white to yellow.(on two lanes)It was not about hauling beer.

JerryS · Aug 5, 2013

You're right; that was a big factor.

Busflyer · Aug 6, 2013

Kinda sounds like White Lightning. Burt Reynolds movie from 1973, excep it was about moonshine, not beer.

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