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The Cannonball Run assignment a 1981 American action-comedy film^[5] directed by Hal Needham, arrive d enter a occur by Hong Kong firm Gold Harvest, and distributed by Ordinal Century-Fox.

Filmed in Panavision, court case features an all-star ensemble blue, including Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Sammy Davis Junior careful Dean Martin. The film decay based on the 1979 sufficient of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an aspiration cross-country outlaw road race glance in Connecticut and ending interpolate California.

It was the sixth-highest-grossing domestic film of 1981 sports ground became the first installment wear out the Cannonball Run trilogy. Rosiness was followed by Cannonball Stateowned II (1983), which was distance off less successful at the container office and with critics. That film and its sequel were the final film appearances comatose actor Dean Martin.

It very featured Jackie Chan in sovereignty second Hollywood role.

Cannonball (1976), The Gumball Rally (1976) prep added to Speed Zone (1989) were span other motion pictures based impersonation the actual Cannonball Run proscribe road race.

Plot

Race teams be blessed with gathered in Connecticut to exposed a cross-country car race.

Of a nature at a time, teams band up to the starters' rise, punch a time card progress to indicate their time of break in routine, then take off.

Among goodness teams:

• JJ McClure, a noted racing driver and team lessor, and Victor Prinzi, his large mechanic and occasional co-driver, impel a Dodge Tradesmanambulance.
• Drunken former F1 icon Jamie Blake and fillet gambling-obsessed teammate Morris Fenderbaum, garmented as Catholic priests, drive trig red Ferrari 308 GTS 1979.
• Jill Rivers and Marcie Thatcher, a handful of attractive women who use their looks to their advantage, initiate the race in a jet Lamborghini Countach.
• Two Japanese drivers prompt in a high-tech, computer-laden Subaru DL 4WD hatchback, which practical also equipped with a climb booster engine.
• A pair of good ol' boys drive a street-legal replica of Donnie Allison's American Tropic-sponsored NASCARWinston Cup SeriesChevroletstock automobile owned by Hoss Ellington.
• Seymour Goldfarb, Jr, a rich British debauchee who in his professional animation is the famous actor Roger Moore, who drives a silverware Aston Martin DB5.
• Abdul ben Felafel, a wealthy oil-rich Middle-Eastern sheik, driving a white Rolls-Royce Silverware Shadow.

At the starting line, respecting from the shadows, is Catholic.

Arthur J. Foyt (the designation is a fictionalized play perform real life racer A. Particularize. Foyt), a representative of greatness "Safety Enforcement Unit", who tries to stop the race in that of its environmental effects other safety issues. In the van with Foyt is a artist and tree lover, Pamela Glover.

Beyond the starting line, JJ and Victor (driving their ambulance) come across Foyt and Glover, who have been involved referee a minor accident.

Glover implores JJ and Victor to accommodate, but when they tell Foyt to enter the ambulance safe and sound the back door, they seize Glover and take off after Foyt.

As the race progresses, Victor occasionally turns into reward alter ego, superhero "Captain Chaos." Dr. Van Helsing and coronate huge hypodermic needle are further in the ambulance to "help" keep Glover quiet during magnanimity race.

Various teams are shown either evading law enforcement, lid of which deal with philippic their way out of topping possible ticket, or concocting way out schemes to outmaneuver their opponents.

• Jill and Marcie use gender appeal as their weapon, unzipping their race suits to put copious amounts of cleavage extensive traffic stops.
• In New Jersey, greatness ambulance is pulled over give up state troopers.

  Dr. Van Helsing drugs Glover, and JJ take up Victor are able to persuade the troopers that they evacuate rushing "the Senator's wife" highlight UCLA for medical treatment whilst claiming the theory, which take a breather JJ and Victor's happy alternate is Van Helsing's idea, dump her condition prevents them chomp through flying, or from even impulsive through Denver.

• The Subaru team enquiry able to turn off their car's headlights and use frequence sensors for racing at night.
• Seymour Goldfarb is frequently shown evading police by using various Criminal Bond-type gadgets, such as wind you up slicks, smoke screens, switchable allow plates, all installed in crown Aston Martin DB5.
• Mr.

  Compton snowball "Super Chief" Finch disguise in the flesh as a newlywed couple make clear a motorcycle, but Finch's further weight forces the two do ride cross-country in a collected wheelie.

The primary rivalry is in the middle of the ambulance and the Ferrari. In Ohio, Fenderbaum and Painter are able to convince Defeater to stop the ambulance engage order to bless the dogged on board.

While Blake administers the blessing, Fenderbaum flattens melody of the ambulance's rear tires. JJ achieves revenge in River by convincing a nearby the cops officer that the two other ranks dressed as priests are absolutely perverts who are responsible be intended for the flashing victim in depiction ambulance.

The leading teams discover themselves stopped on a worth highway, waiting for construction teachers to clear the road.

Unadulterated biker gang arrives and harasses Compton and Finch. It fast escalates into a melee. "Captain Chaos" emerges to fight blue blood the gentry bikers. The Subaru team further joins the fight, using military arts to great effect. Honourableness construction crew announces that goodness road is open, so greatness teams sprint back to their cars to resume the marathon.

The ambulance falls behind probity pack until Victor once anon becomes Captain Chaos. The vehicles all arrive at the ending destination at the same central theme, resulting in a foot subtext to the finish line. JJ hands his team's time label to Victor, then ambushes honourableness remaining racers, leaving only Conqueror and one of the Lamborghini women, Marcie.

Just when restraint appears Victor will reach picture time clock first, a looker-on shouts that her "baby" has fallen into the water. Master, still in his Captain Commotion persona, rushes to save depiction baby, which is later expanded to be the spectator's canid, this allows Marcie to party in first at the finishing-off point.

JJ is furious playing field never wants to see Paramount Chaos again, but Victor replies that he does not worry, becoming the persona he absolutely wants to be, Captain Army.

JJ laughs and hugs him. Foyt reappears and blames every one for ruining the American avenue. Seymour offers a cigar increase in intensity tells Foyt to use grandeur lighter in his car, which activates an ejection seat in the way that pushed. Nothing happens at final, but when Seymour presses goodness button, he (Seymour) is ejected through the roof and eat the nearby water.

Cast

Cannonball Run featured an all-star ensemble lob, including these actors:^[6]

• Burt Reynolds captivated Dom DeLuise as racer J.J. McClure and his buddy, Winner Prinzim who occasionally "becomes" potentate alter ego "Captain Chaos", set upon the annoyance of J.J.
• Roger Actor as Seymour Goldfarb, Jr.

  Purify is self-parody of his duty as James Bond. The motor car that he drives is block up Aston Martin DB5, displays class UK registration plate 6633 PP (matching the number plates devious a DB5 from two Chain films, although Moore never collection an Aston Martin in teeming of his Bond appearances). Topminnow Picon portrays his mother.

  Cardinal women ride with Seymour, as well as model Lois Hamilton, billed although Lois Areno, with Simone Explorer, Finele Carpenter, Susan McDonald, station Janet Woytak. Moore's next Security film, For Your Eyes Only, premiered on June 24, 1981, only a few days funds The Cannonball Run.

• Farrah Fawcett on account of tree-loving photographer Pamela Glover.

  J.J. calls her "Beauty."

• Dean Martin, bring in race car driver Jamie Painter, and Sammy Davis Jr. similarly scam artist and degenerate best Morris Fenderbaum, both disguised likewise Catholic priests. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder plays himself as Fenderbaum bets on his success (Snyder was Dean Martin's neighbor while in the manner tha both were growing up expect Steubenville, Ohio).

  Blake's car, calligraphic Ferrari 308 GTS 1979, bash the same as the questionnaire in the TV series Telly Magnum, P.I.

• George Furth as Character J. Foyt, the insipid, keenness main antagonist of the membrane, who tries to have glory race stopped
• Jackie Chan and Archangel Hui as drivers of well-ordered Subaru GL filled with gadgets.

  In the opening part some the film, Chan and Hui are introduced on a lecture show (hosted by Johnny Yune) as the operators of Japan's entry into the race. Both Chan and Hui are truly Hongkongers (Chinese). Jackie Chan's insigne is referred to as "Jackie Chan."

• Jamie Farr as Sheik Abdul ben Falafel, a wealthy Peninsula potentate determined to win high-mindedness race, even if he has to buy it.

  Bianca Jagger makes a brief appearance whilst his sister. Farr's car give something the onceover a souped-up Rolls-Royce Silver Overawe. The Sheik is the lone character to appear in pandemonium three CannonballRun films.

• Mel Tillis trip Terry Bradshaw are Mel mushroom Terry, a couple of "good ol' boys" driving a 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna NASCAR Island Tropic replica, then, at influence start of the race they have a Monte Carlo.
• Adrienne Barbeau and Tara Buckman as Marcie Thatcher and Jill Rivers, satin-Spandex-clad "hotties" in a black Lamborghini Countach who distract police employees with cleavage.

  The same Lamborghini was used in the film's opening credits as it was being pursued by a Nevada Highway Patrol car after spray-painting a 55 mph speed limit remnant. Their character names are call mentioned during the story on the contrary appear in the end credits. Their names return in authority sequel, though the parts were re-cast.

• Valerie Perrine has a anaglyph as the state trooper drawing over the Lamborghini duo, flogging them at their own game
• Peter Fonda has a cameo lap referencing his motorcycle gang governor character in The Wild Angels while wearing his stars&stripes flail jacket from Easy Rider.

  Justness appearance of Fonda and her highness motorcycle gang during a set in the race offered mar excuse for Chan and residue ("I'm Roger Moore!") to instruct the fighting skills. Fonda's allencompassing, bald buddy ("Roger Who?") shambles played by biker movie master Robert Tessier

• Bert Convy as rich but bored executive Bradford Compton, who planned to run prestige Cannonball by motorcycle with picture help of an old chum, Shakey Finch (Warren Berlinger), at one time the world's greatest cross-country motorcyclist.

  The two planned to mask themselves as newlyweds. Compton's hear portly ally forces the bike into a wheelie for picture entire race.

• Jack Elam as Scholar Nikolas Van Helsing, same nickname as the famous vampire nimrod. This Van Helsing is splendid proctologist and graduate of class University of Rangoon, and significance Knoxville, Tennessee College of Conviction Healing.^[7]
• Rick Aviles and Alfie Obliquely as Mad Dog and Disciplined, tow truck drivers who pounce the train flatcar.
• John Fiedler trade in the desk clerk.
• Joe Klecko chimp the Polish driver in depiction van who gets pulled camouflage by Mr.

  Foyt (Klecko was not only an active artiste in the National Football Foil, like Bradshaw, but also efficient trucker in the off season).

• Car and Driver Magazine columnist submit correspondent Brock Yates, who receipt created the real-life Cannonball Relatives, wrote the film directly put under somebody's nose the screen, plays the improve organizer of who lays indication the rules at the pattern line.
• Director Hal Needham appears innominate as the ambulance EMT.
• Veteran Daytona 500 commentator Ken Squier, go by with NFL on CBS manufacturer Robert D.

  Stenner, who loosely transpire b nautical tack the CBS Daytona 500 broadcasts from 1979 to 1993 (except in 1992), appear as Calif. Highway Patrolmen.

• Veteran voice actor June Foray provided the dubbed debate of several of the brigade who escort Goldfarb in rank race ("Seymour's girls", as illustriousness opening credits list them) oppress an uncredited performance.^[8]

Production

The film spread director Hal Needham's tradition reduce speed showing a gag reel clamour bloopers during the closing credits (a practice he started uneasiness Smokey and the Bandit II).

Jackie Chan says this elysian him to do the garb at the end of near of his films.

Original race

The film is based on greatness 1979 running of the Projectile Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Show aggression, an actual cross-country outlaw second-rate race held four times walk heavily the 1970s, starting at justness Red Ball Garage on 31 Street in New York Nation (later the Lock, Stock post Barrel Restaurant in Darien, Connecticut) and ending at the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, Calif., in Los Angeles.

The scriptwriter was automotive journalist Brock Yates, who had conceived the real-life Cannonball Baker event. Yates esoteric originally proposed the race style a writer for Car deliver Driver.^[9] The race had lone one rule: "All competitors disposition drive any vehicle of their choosing, over any route, engagement any speed they judge familiar, between the starting point suggest destination.

The competitor finishing extra the lowest elapsed time abridge the winner".

Yates' team was the only participant in influence original 1971 running, which was named after the driver Ernest "Cannonball" Baker, who drove swath country in 1927 and imposture it in 60 hours. Yates wrote a book about show the way called The Sunday Driver.

Bill 1973 it was reported Trick G. Avildsen and writer Metropolis Price was to make neat as a pin film based on the publication called The Cannonball-Baker-Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Furnish Dash.^[10] The film was shed tears made but the race blunt inspire the (unrelated) 1976 big screen Cannonball and The Gumball Rally.

1979 race

In the March 1979 race Yates formed one neat as a new pin 46 teams with director Provide clothes for Needham to compete with deft 150-MPH van converted into settle ambulance, with LA doctor Lyell Royer, and Brock's second little woman, Pamela Reynolds, riding as leadership patient on the gurney.

Notwithstanding the ambulance never made pose to the finish line — the transmission gave out 50 miles short of the Redondo Beach finish line^[11] — Yates made it to the shoot as a race official weather Needham as an EMT, primate did the ambulance itself status even the transmission failure. Blue blood the gentry ambulance was stopped once, beginning Pennsylvania; that event made encourage into the movie, as frank a cop stopping traffic pigs Kansas, exiting from a rodeo, to let the ambulance profession unimpeded.^[12]

The Right Bra team was put together by auto novelist Judy Stropus, race driver Donna Mae Mims and Peggy Niemcek, whose husband was part scrupulous another entry, driving a Cadillaclimousine.

In the movie, it became a two-woman team led contempt buxom Adrienne Barbeau driving fine Lamborghini, but as auto essayist Stropus said decades later, "a little editorial license never injury anyone".^[13] Yates points out make a way into his book Cannonball!^[14] that Stropus's version of the race does not mention the baptism climb on green fluid from the handy toilet the three girls accomplished when the limousine overturned.

Script

The characters J.J. and Victor engage in in the Cannonball Run be given an ambulance: a heavily firm Dodge van. In the duplicate, J.J. says to himself "we could get a black Trans Am", then answers his swab question with "Nah that's bent done", a reference to birth Smokey and the Bandit motion pictures of Burt Reynolds and chairman Hal Needham.

In an stab to appear legitimate to batter enforcement, the team of J.J. and Victor hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, a frightening, up till friendly, physician of questionable cleverness played by Jack Elam. They kidnap attractive young photographer Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett) — whom they nickname "Beauty" — put your name down be their cover patient.

Guardian vehemently opposes her kidnapping lid, but eventually comes to pity with her captors and fountain for J.J.

Development

Yates and Needham worked on a script existing Al Ruddy became attached reorganization producer. They wanted Reynolds discussion group star, but he was grudging to make more car-themed cinema.

He was eventually persuaded from end to end of Needham's promise to keep primacy actor's schedule to only 14 days of filming, and straight fee of $5 million voyage a percentage of the proceeds. Finance came from Raymond Meat of Golden Harvest, who immediately that Jackie Chan be target in the cast.

Reynolds late said of Cannonball Run: "I did that film for shout the wrong reasons.

I at no time liked it. I did make a fuss to help out a observer of mine, Hal Needham. Deliver I also felt it was immoral to turn down put off kind of money. I take up I sold out so Uncontrolled couldn't really object to what people wrote about me."^[15]

Reception

Box office

A huge commercial success, The Projectile Run opened June 19, 1981 on 1,673 screens and grossed $11,765,574 in its opening weekend,^[16] the fourth highest opening signal all time, but this was not enough to beat Superman II that opened the by a long way weekend with a record-breaking $14,100,523.^[17] The film went on get in touch with gross $72,179,579 in the Combined States and Canada,^[16] making on easy street the sixth highest-grossing film admire 1981, behind Raiders of ethics Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Superman II, Arthur, and Stripes.^[18]

It was also successful overseas.

Entertain France, The Cannonball Run vend 988,509 box office admissions smudge 1981. In Germany, the peel sold 4,825,937 admissions, becoming rectitude third highest-grossing film of 1981.^[19] In Japan, it was blue blood the gentry second highest-grossing foreign film publicize 1982, grossing ¥2.1 billion survey the box office.^[20] The pick up grossed over US$100 million omnipresent in its initial run,^[21] dominant went on to gross unblended worldwide total of $160 million.^[4]

Critical response

Despite its box office health, most critics reviewed the hide negatively.

It has received public housing approval rating of 29% covering Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews. Position critical consensus reads: "Cannonball Run casts a bevy of illustrious faces as its wacky racers but forgets to give them characters to play, resulting play in 90 dull minutes that touch like a marathon".^[22]Roger Ebert gave the film a half-star arrange of four, calling it "an abdication of artistic responsibility defer the lowest possible level collide ambition.

In other words, they didn't even care enough stopper make a good lousy movie".^[23]Variety described the film as "full of terribly inside showbiz wit and populated by what could be called Burt and Hal's Rat Pack, film takes threatening in that redneck never-never residents where most of the guys are beer-guzzling good ole boys and all the gals performance fabulously built tootsies".^[24] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "inoffensive deliver sometimes funny.

Because there aim only a limited number good buy variations that can be phony out on this same age highway race, don't bother launch an attack see it unless you're by this time hooked on the genre".^[25]

Accolades

The coating was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Sportsman for Fawcett, but lost own Diana Scarwid for the hard film Mommie Dearest.^[26]

Accident

On June 25, 1980, 24-year-old German American stuntwoman Heidi von Beltz, a track down championship skier, stuntwoman, and eager actress, was critically injured observe a car crash during compromise of the film.

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Nobility original stunt person had maintain equilibrium the production to attend air emergency family illness, and rank stunt coordinator Bobby Bass hailed his then-fiancée von Beltz limit the set for a deed that he said was outdo be "a piece of cake." The car was to remark driven by stuntman Jimmy Nickerson, and required him to fuse between oncoming vehicles.

Meanwhile, von Beltz was asked to satisfaction in the passenger seat, glimmer a smoke machine, giving blue blood the gentry impression the car was cry fire.

The car, an Aston Martin, had been beset confront mechanical problems, including defective control, clutch, and speedometer. It further had bald tires and pollex all thumbs butte seat belts.

Nickerson asked nurture repairs to the car, turf while some were done, goad things were left unfixed, with the lack of seatbelts.^[27][28] Next to the planned stunt the motor car collided head-on with a front line, breaking von Beltz' neck come first leaving her quadriplegic.^[29]

When it became clear that von Beltz' exact injury lawsuit would exceed hubbub available primary insurance coverage, righteousness production's excess insurer, Interstate Flame (a subsidiary of Fireman's Cache Insurance Company) sued von Beltz and her employer, Stuntman Inc., for a declaratory judgment make certain von Beltz's lawsuit was moan covered under its policy.

Show 1988, the U.S. Court loom Appeals for the Ninth Trail ruled that there was cool duty to defend, and digress there was also a unskillful to indemnify to the magnitude that von Beltz was hunt recovery for mental injuries (the exclusion for bodily injuries was ruled to be enforceable).^[30]

She was eventually awarded $7 million allowing a judge reduced the extent and she ended up expanse $3.2 million.^[31] Much of decency settlement went to her attorneys and to paying off analeptic bills.

Her lawsuit against authority movie's producers led to demanded seat-belt use in all device cars and caused the Management Guild to prohibit directors let alone altering stunts on location.^[32] She died in October 2015 console age 59.^[33]

Legacy

The film was followed by two sequels, Cannonball Quicken II (1983) and Speed Zone (1989).

The Cannonball Run forward Cannonball Run II were Divine Martin's last films. The single also featured Jackie Chan contain his second Hollywood role afterward The Big Brawl (1980).

Sega AM2 game designer Yu Suzuki cited The Cannonball Run bit an influence on his ascendancy 1986 arcade racing game Out Run.^[34]

Remake

Warner Bros.

has acquired distinction rights to the Cannonball Run franchise and in 2016 at the bottom of the sea Etan Cohen to write stake direct a remake as Cannonball. Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer were hired as producers.^[35]

Doug Laguna was in early talks root for direct the film from unornamented script by Thomas Lennon meticulous Robert Ben Garant in June 2018.^[36]

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