Smokey and the Bandit 3 [Blu-ray]

Director: Dick Lowry Dick Lowry

Overview

In this plotless, mindless chase movie, papa Big Enos and son Little Enos (Pat McCormick and Paul Williams) hire Cletus (Jerry Reed) to haul a Jaws-replica shark from Miami to Texas to advertise their new seafood restaurant. There is big money in it for Cletus if he can get to Texas on time. Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) mistakes Cletus for his old nemesis the Bandit (Burt Reynolds, who only appears briefly at the beginning of the film), postpones his retirement, and with his inept son Junior (Mike Henry) in tow, chases Cletus across the South for a disconnected series of misadventures and bad jokes.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/2019
UPC:	0191329091531
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	PG
Source:	Universal
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	30,667

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Burt Reynolds	The Real Bandit
Jerry Reed	Cletus/The Bandit
Jackie Gleason	Sheriff Buford T. Justice,Lady Ticket
Paul Williams	Little Enos
Pat McCormick	Big Enos
Mike Henry	Junior
Colleen Camp	Dusty Trails
Faith Minton	Tina
Sharon Anderson	Policewoman
Silvia Arana	Latin Woman
Alan Berger	Hippie
Ray Bouchard	Purvis R. Beethoven,Purvis R. Beethoven
Connie Brighton	Girl
Earl Houston Bullock	Flagman
Ava Cadell	Blond
Cathy Cahill	Mother Trucker
David Cass	Tough Guy
Leon Cheatom	Guide
Candace Collins	Maid
Peter Conrad	Midget
Janis Cummins	Nudist Female
Jackie Davis	Blackman No. 1
Dee Dee Deering	Mrs. Fernbush
Al DeLuca	Flower Vendor
Raymond George Forchion	Tar Worker,Tar Worker
Veronica Gamba	Girl at Picnic
Jorge Gil	Gas Station Attendant
Charles P. Harris	Hot Dog Vendor
Timothy Hawkins	Man in Truck
Craig Horwich	Crash Guy
Pirty Lee Jackson	Blackman No. 2
Austin Kelly	Painter
William L. Kingsley	Announcer
Will Knickerbocker	Hotel Clerk
Kim Kondziola	Baby Enos
Dick Lowry	Sand Dumper
Sandy Mielke	Driving Instructor
Toni Moon	Girl No. 2
Alejandro Moreno	Street Latin
Gloria Nichols	Latin Woman
Mel Pape	Police Officer
Dan Rambo	TV Director
Richard Walsh	Nudist Male
Curry Worsham	Skip Town
Larry Cansler	Composer
Howard Warren	Composer

Technical Credits

Hal Needham

Robert L. Levy

James Lee Barrett

Charles Shyer

Alan Mandel

Stuart Birnbaum

David Dashev

David Cass	Stunts
Mort Engelberg	Producer
Dick Lowry	Director
Hal Needham	Screenwriter
Robert L. Levy	Screenwriter
James Lee Barrett	Screenwriter
Charles Shyer	Screenwriter
Alan Mandel	Screenwriter
Stuart Birnbaum	Screenwriter
David Dashev	Screenwriter
Andre Lavery	Sound/Sound Designer
Linda Benedict	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

This third entry is easily the bastard son of the Smokey and the Bandit franchise and deservedly so -- it's a mess! Originally entitled and shot as Smokey Is the Bandit, the film starred Jackie Gleason as both Sheriff Buford T. Justice and the Bandit but was scrapped when test audiences deemed the whole thing confusing. Thus, cue in a seemingly coked-up Jerry Reed, who was then shot and edited into the film as Cledus, the friendly truck-driver buddy who steps into the Bandit's wardrobe (including the mustache) for this wacky outing. Confused yet? So were they! Reed is a comical mess in the film, continually repeating his "I'm the bandit!" lines over and over again, whether to his dog, a hitchhiker he picks up, or even scarier, to himself. Plus, he doesn't even show up for the first 30-minutes! When it comes down to it, this is really the Gleason show, with the plot revolving solely around Buford and his son Junior (Mike Henry), who himself doesn't look too hot, with the few years between this and the second film lending him a haggard, zombie quality that is evident in both his looks and line delivery. Burt Reynolds eventually shows up in an out-of-nowhere cameo that was intended to kick-start the series if the third entry was a hit, which as evidenced, it was not. Smokey and the Bandit 3 lives on as an account of Hollywood's damage control at its most confused and mockingly hilarious.

All Movie Guide - Jeremy Wheeler