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Smokey and the Bandit 1977
Reviewed by Ron Pennington
One of the last American frontiers is the open road, and the men who drive the 18-wheelers across these paved wildernesses are the ones who will provide our modern legends, according to Jerry Reed’s main credit song for Smokey and the Bandit, a Rastar production for Universal.
And, like most legends, the film is based almost solely on derring-do feats with little concern with substance and/or reality. It’s a merry chase caper story line in which…
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Airplane! 1980
Reviewed by Ron Pennington
Paramount should have an easy summer, just sitting back and collecting the huge profits that will be flying in daily on Airplane! This Howard W. Koch production, which was made for the amazingly low budget of $3.5 million, is hilarious and will undoubtedly soar into the stratosphere of the year’s big moneymakers.
The geniuses behind this inspired silliness are Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who wrote, directed and executive produced the outrageous spoof, with…
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