trivia from smokey and the bandit movies

Texarkana, TX, is roughly 975 miles from Golden. Possibly due to their beer not being pasteurized.

At the time of filming, Coors would not ship beer more than 1000 miles from the brewery in Golden, CO.

He pondered over the lengths people would go for Coors, and it spiraled from there. and after installing a hidden camera, discovered his maid was stealing it. Inspiration for the Work: Where did the idea for this movie come from? Hal Needham, after being given a case of Coors by a friend, began to notice it vanishing from his fridge.Follow the Leader: Smokey came after a 1975 film called Moonrunners and on the heels of the popular song 'Convoy'.

The studio didn't want to cast Sally Field in the lead because she 'wasn't sexy.' Amusingly, Reynolds (the biggest male sex symbol of his era) began dating Fields during filming. Executive Meddling: Averted, according to Burt Reynolds in the making-of documentary on the DVD.Direct to Video: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 met this fate in Britain.As Junior 'goes Number One', Buford notices a bank robbery, but mistakes one of the robbers as a 'good buddy' who dropped his bag and assumed that there was a ski resort nearby due to them wearing masks. Deleted Scene: In Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, there was a scene where Buford and Junior fill up their car at a petrol station.

Trivia from smokey and the bandit movies