A boiled rascal

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Movie
German title A boiled rascal
Original title Smokey and the Bandit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1977
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hal Needham
script Alan Mandel ,
Hal Needham,
Charles Shyer ,
James Lee Barrett
production Mort Engelberg
music Bill Justis ,
Jerry Reed
camera Bobby Byrne
cut Walter Hannemann ,
Angelo Ross
occupation

Smokey and the Bandit , also known as a totally crazy guy and the law can lick (Original title: Smokey and the Bandit ), is an American action comedy from director Hal Needham from 1977. The film grossed 4.3 million US -Dollar production costs approximately 300 million US dollars. The success of this film led to a number of sequels.

action

During a truck festival, the extremely wealthy Texan tire dealers “Big” and “Little Enos Burdette” offer the trucker “Bandit” a bet. For $ 80,000, this 400 cases of Coors beer , which cannot be sold east of the Mississippi due to food regulations on the shelf life of beer, is supposed to smuggle within 28 hours from Texarkana , Texas, to Atlanta , Georgia . Bandit accepts the challenge and persuades his friend Cledus, called "Snowman", to help him. Snowman drives the truck, a Kenworth W-900, with his dog Gottfried as a passenger. Meanwhile, Bandit tries to distract the police from the truck and its illegal cargo in his Pontiac Firebird Trans Am .

On the way back from Texas to Georgia, Bandit picks up hitchhiker Carrie, who is standing in the middle of the street in a wedding dress. At the last moment she tries to escape the wedding with the handsome but not very clever son of the sheriff Buford T. Justice. The sheriff, however, tries to bring his potential daughter-in-law back. The result is a series of action-packed car chases, at the end of which the bandit and snowman win the bet and, together with Carrie, escape the sheriff's grasp. Bandit and Carrie fall in love. At the end of the film, Snowman and Bandit take another bet and Bandit radio sends Sheriff Justice over to chase him again.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "gag-rich comedy, largely over-speeded in terms of speed, which pays homage to a hackneyed ideology of masculinity".

According to Cinema , "Mustache Reynolds [...] is in top form in the first and best 'rascal' film". The film is also "a car crash classic".

For Prisma , A Boiled Rascal is “a high-spirited highway comedy” with “breathtaking car stunts” and “unbelievable car chases”.

Film music

The song East Bound and Down is sung by Jerry Reed himself and was released on the album Country Legends . Jerry Reed also sang the songs Bandit and The Legend . The songs were written by Dick Feller ( East Bound and Down and Bandit ) and Jerry Reed ( East Bound and Down and The Legend ).

Depending on the direction of travel , the song East Bound and Down with the text West Bound and Down is played during the drive to Texarkana .

Awards

Remarks

  • The cut version of the film is still mostly shown on US television today. Some scenes with suggestive or hearty language have been cut out.
  • In the US original, Sheriff Justice calls his son "Junior". In the German dubbing, "Junior" was translated as "Purzel".
  • Burt Reynolds said that a Pontiac executive had promised him that he would receive a TransAm as a gift if the film was a success. The film became a success and the TransAm became one of the best-selling cars in the following year. When Reynolds asked where the promised car was, he was told that the executive was now retired and that his successor was not maintaining the offer.
  • The film picks up on the increasing popularity of CB radio in the 1970s. In the original sound, an idiosyncratic "CB slang" is used when using the CB radio, including some "10 codes" such as 10-4 for "understood" or 10-20 for "position". For example, Frosch uses 10-100 (“please wait”) when she goes to the bathroom for a moment. The actors use "handles" (radio names), as was the rule at the time.
  • In the original title Smokey and the Bandit, "Smokey" refers to the highway police. "Smokey" originated from " Smokey Bear ", an advertising figure for the US Forest Service who wears a hat similar to that of the highway police.
  • Bandit drives a 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, supposedly with a "6.6 liter" displacement.
  • The maximum speed of the Trans Am is 160 mp / h according to the speedometer.
  • Burt Reynolds already played a blocker in the film drama Der Tiger Hetzt die Meute (1973) , a driver who blocks and distracts the police so that his partner can smuggle alcohol; he was also mercilessly pursued by a vicious southern sheriff. Burt Reynolds and Sally Field quote the film before breaking a police cordon: "Are you ready, Roy?" - "I was born ready!"

Sequels

Burt Reynolds took over the lead role again in the sequel, in the third part he only took over a cameo at the end of the film (while this time Jerry Reed was the "bandit"). Director Hal Needham also directed the second part.

  • 1980: The boiled rascal is back on the road
  • 1983: The boiled rascal III
  • In 1994 there was a short-lived film series about the character "Bandit", consisting of four films. The title role was played by Brian Bloom .
    • Bandit - A boiled rascal takes off
    • Bandit - A boiled rascal rarely comes alone
    • Bandit - A boiled rascal and a cool blonde
    • Bandit - A boiled rascal accelerates

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ A boiled rascal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  5. ↑ cf. imdb.com