Please enable JavaScript and reload this page. Cledus calls Carrie, who is back in Texarkana and again about to marry Junior when Cledus calls offering her $50,000 to help out; she agrees and again becomes a runaway bride. Click to Read More The plot centers on Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Jerry Reed), transporting an elephant to the GOP National Convention, with Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) once again in hot pursuit. Cledus is ecstatic, but Bandit begins to miss Carrie. After failing to get the outgoing governor's endorsement, Big Enos overhears him on the phone ordering a crate in Miami to be delivered in nine days to the Republican National Convention in Dallas. The new elephants came from Elephant Encounter, a traveling elephant program based near Tampa, Florida.
She then trades in Junior's car for a new Trans Am. Big Enos Burdette is in a literal mudslinging campaign against John Conn for Governor of Texas. "[4], Burt Reynolds later stated that he did not enjoy working on the movie at all, feeling that it was an unnecessary sequel put together by Universal purely for money-making reasons rather than to try making a good picture.[5]. - The film is the sequel to the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit. A world-record automobile jump was captured on film during the "roundup sequence", when stuntman Gary Davis jumped a 1974 Dodge Monaco over 150 feet. Later that night, a drunken Bandit makes his drawing a reality, and Doc agrees that his idea will work. Within a few weeks, they will join the zoo’s two other elephants - 46-year-old Tembo and 56-year-old Sunda. This box office income inspired a third film where Reynolds appeared only in a cameo appearance before the end credits, Field had no involvement whatsoever, and Gleason practically filled the film. Though she still has feelings for Bandit, when Carrie arrives she initially intones she is only in it for the money, and she and Cledus work on getting Bandit off the booze and back into shape. The two escape by crossing a makeshift trailer bridge with Buford and his brothers in pursuit. Cledus decides they all need a break and they go to a nearby nightclub where Don Williams is headlining. | On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 14% based on reviews from seven critics. Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham, and starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason and Dom DeLuise. ', FBI warned of white supremacist 'infiltration' of police, Obama FBI’s anti-Trump efforts revealed in court filings, Supreme Court nomination battles turned nastier as Dems abandoned norms, unleashed attacks. "Burt Reynolds discusses being The Bandit, his work with Hal Needham and being a Hollywood "whore. ... How dare you!' | Bandit orders Cledus to get to Dallas, but he enlists a large convoy of his trucker pals and comes to Bandit's rescue instead, wrecking nearly all of the cruisers in a giant demolition derby while Doc and Charlotte watch from the sidelines. | In that film, Bandit wore a red jacket that had the word "Bandit" on his sleeves, which seems like an ill-advised thing to do for a criminal who was constantly being chased by the police. Buford decides to call for help from his brothers Reggie, a Mountie Sergeant in Quebec, and Gaylord, an effeminate Texas State Patrolman. JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC. Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.