Along the way (1) action (17) Action Movies (1) adventure (4) American Deep South (1) and his boy is waiting for her at the altar. Justice became Boss Hogg with his bumbling sidekick Sheriff Roscoe B.1970s (3) 1977 (2) 1980s (4) A race-car driver named Bandit (Burt Reynolds) makes a bet that he can transport an illegal shipment of beer from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours. Burt and Jerry became Bo and Luke Duke.Sally turned into a Daisy(with better legs!) and Sheriff Buford T. It was a movie you partly felt dumb to admitting you liked! But the movie itself inspired the hugely popular TV series Dukes of Hazzard, right down to the cast. So when we saw these 'real-men' like Burt and Jerry Reed in thier plaid shirts and tight jeans, taking on the establishment by disregarding the rules of the road and all that, we got excited! Finally, the sheer delight in seeing people enjoying life was a thrill we all wanted to partake in! I can see why so many people, who were bored with life in the pre-disco late 70's, really enjoyed the escapism of this simple but extremely fun flick! We wanted to be a part of it! It was late-night chocolate we never admitted to eating. First off, we were going thru an energy crisis and the age of muscle cars was over and most of us were driving around in small pieces of crap like the Chevette or the VW Rabbit! The thrill of seeing a muscle car like the Pontiac Trans Am tearing across the land was a huge thrill! Secondly, the country as a whole was in a malaise of the 'Me Generation'.and all the self-help crap! People were listening to soft-rock like Helen Reddy and John Denver and taking self-help courses like est! People wore earth-tone colors and sandals. I think part of the reason Smokey was such a huge hit was threefold. He had this big ol' whip antennae on the back and his CB handle(name) was Midnight(because he worked the night shift at Pan Am airlines). I remember when my dad got one in his 1972 cherry red Chevy Impala.

I grew up in the south as a teen in the 70's and this movie was the South at that time.

Seven smokey and the bandit movies