Barbra Streisand and Smokey and the Bandit are very different entities, but an actor from Smokey co-wrote a huge hit for Streisand. “The first thing she did, she said, ‘Can you use this?’’ Williams ...

Han Solo may be the galaxy's best smuggler, but back here on terra firma, no one outraces the Bandit. Forty-five years ago, Smokey and the Bandit went head to head with Star Wars over the long ...

There’s no better way to honor the late Burt Reynolds than to watch a Burt Reynolds movie. And while it’s lovely that Smokey and the Bandit — his biggest-ever hit, which made near-Star Wars money back ...

The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit (the second-highest grossing movie of 1977, after Star Wars) ...

Burt Reynolds is a true Hollywood legend and Smokey and the Bandit is one of his most iconic films. The 1977 action comedy featured Reynolds as Bo “Bandit” Darville fleeing from Buford T. Justice ...

Smokey and the Bandit II will never be confused with a great movie, but it has two things going for it: Burt Reynolds' inexhaustible charm, and the fact that it manages to turn a run-of-the-mill ...

The classic 1977 action comedy “Smokey and the Bandit” is getting the TV treatment. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door are teaming to develop a series based on ...

Watching Smokey and the Bandit all these years after its release is an exercise in cultural anthropology. Even more so than other films of its time, this 1977 car-chase comedy drops markers about its ...