Let's set the scene: It's 1977. Burt Reynolds played a legendary truck driver who goes by the handle Bandit and is challenged to a feat no one has accomplished before: Drive from Atlanta to Texarkana and back in 28 hours. The kicker…he had to bring 400 cases of bootlegged Coors with him.
Bandit, who was never one to turn down a challenge, enlisted the help of his friend and fellow truck driver Cledus, played by Jerry Reid. Along their run, they encounter hijinks, a fleeing bride, Carrie, played by Sally Field, an undaunted Texas sheriff named Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), and his son Junior (Mike Henry), who, surprisingly, held up well chasing Bandit, even if their car didn't.
