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The Cannonball Run
Theatrical release poster byDrew Struzan
Directed byHal Needham
Written byBrock Yates
Produced byAlbert S. Ruddy
Starring
CinematographyMichael Butler
Edited byDonn Cambern
William D. Gordean
Music byAl Capps
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century-Fox(United States)[a]
Golden Harvest (Hong Kong)
Release date
  • June 19, 1981(1981-06-19)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesUnited States[1]
Hong Kong[2]
LanguagesEnglish
Cantonese
BudgetUS$16–18 million[3]
Box officeUS$160 million[4]

The Cannonball Runis a 1981 Americanaction-comedy film[5]directed byHal Needham,produced by Hong Kong firmGolden Harvest,and distributed by20th Century-Fox.Filmed inPanavision,it features an all-starensemble cast,includingBurt Reynolds,Dom DeLuise,Roger Moore,Farrah Fawcett,Jackie Chan,andDean Martin.The film is based on the 1979 running of theCannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash,an actual cross-country outlaw road race beginning inConnecticutand ending inCalifornia.

It was thesixth-highest-grossing domestic film of 1981and became the first installment of theCannonball Runtrilogy. It was followed byCannonball Run II(1984), which was far less successful at the box office and with critics. This film and its1984 sequelwere the final film appearances of actor Dean Martin. It also featured Jackie Chan in his second Hollywood role.Cannonball(1976),The Gumball Rally(1976) andSpeed Zone(1989) were three other motion pictures based on the actual Cannonball Run outlaw road race.Jamie Farrreprised hisCannonball RunandCannonball Run IIcharacter "Sheik Abdul Ben Falafel" in a cameo in the latter film.

Plot

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Race teams have gathered in Connecticut to start a cross-country car race. One at a time, teams drive up to the starters' stand, punch a time card to indicate their time of departure, then take off.

Among the teams:

At the starting line, observing from the shadows, is Mr. Arthur J. Foyt (the name is a fictionalized play on real life racerA. J. Foyt), a representative of the "Safety Enforcement Unit", who tries to stop the race because of its environmental effects and safety issues. In the car with Foyt is a photographer and tree lover, Pamela Glover.

Beyond the starting line, JJ and Victor (driving their ambulance) come across Foyt and Glover, who have been involved in a minor accident. Glover implores JJ and Victor to help, but when they tell Foyt to enter the ambulance through the back door, they kidnap Glover and take off without Foyt.

As the race progresses, Victor occasionally turns into his alter ego, superhero "Captain Chaos." Dr. Van Helsing and his huge hypodermic needle are also in the ambulance to "help" keep Glover quiet during the race.

Various teams are shown either evading law enforcement, most of which deal with talking their way out of a possible ticket, or concocting crazy schemes to outmaneuver their opponents.

  • Jill and Marcie use sex appeal as their weapon, unzipping their race suits to display copious amounts of cleavage during traffic stops.
  • In New Jersey, the ambulance is pulled over by state troopers. Dr. Van Helsing drugs Glover, and JJ and Victor are able to convince the troopers that they are rushing "the Senator's wife" toUCLAfor medical treatment (offering the theory, which to JJ and Victor's happy surprise is Van Helsing's idea, that her condition prevents them from flying, or from even driving throughDenver).
  • The Subaru team is able to turn off their car's headlights and use infrared sensors for racing at night.
  • Seymour Goldfarb is frequently shown evading police by using various James Bond-type gadgets, such as oil slicks, smoke screens, switchable license plates, all installed in hisAston Martin DB5.
  • Mr. Compton and "Super Chief" Finch disguise themselves as a newlywed couple on a motorcycle, but Finch's extra weight forces the two to ride cross-country in a continuouswheelie.

The primary rivalry is between the ambulance and the Ferrari. In Ohio, Fenderbaum and Blake are able to convince Victor to stop the ambulance in order to bless the patient on board. While Blake administers the blessing, Fenderbaum flattens one of the ambulance's rear tires. JJ achieves revenge in Missouri by convincing a nearby police officer that the two men dressed as priests are actually sex perverts who are responsible for theflashingvictim in the ambulance.

The leading teams find themselves stopped on a desert highway, waiting for construction workers to clear the road. A biker gang arrives and harasses Compton and Finch. It quickly escalates into a melee. "Captain Chaos" emerges to fight the bikers. The Subaru team also joins the fight, using martial arts to great effect. The construction crew announces that the road is open, so the teams sprint back to their cars to resume the race.

The ambulance falls behind the pack until Victor once again becomes Captain Chaos. The vehicles all arrive at the final destination at the same time, resulting in a foot race to the finish line. JJ hands his team's time card to Victor, then ambushes the remaining racers, leaving only Victor and one of the Lamborghini women, Marcie. Just when it appears Victor will reach the time clock first, a spectator shouts that her "baby" has fallen into the water. Victor, still in his Captain Chaos persona, rushes to save the baby (later revealed to be the spectator's dog), allowing Marcie to clock in first and win the race.

JJ is furious and never wants to see Captain Chaos again, but Victor replies that he does not care, becoming the persona he really wants to be, Captain USA. JJ laughs and hugs him. Foyt reappears and blames everyone for ruining the American highway. Seymour offers a cigar and tells Foyt to use the lighter in his car, which activates anejection seatwhen pushed. Nothing happens at first, but when Seymour presses the button, he (Seymour) goes flying into the water.

Cast

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Cannonball Runfeatured an all-starensemble cast,including these actors:[6]

  • Burt ReynoldsandDom DeLuiseas racer J.J. McClure and his buddy, Victor Prinzim who occasionally "becomes" hisalter ego"Captain Chaos", to the annoyance of J.J.
  • Roger Mooreas Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., a self-parody of his role asJames Bond.His car, anAston Martin DB5,displays the UK registration plate 6633 PP (matching the number plates on a DB5 from two Bond films).Molly Piconportrays his mother. Five women ride with Seymour, including modelLois Hamilton,billed as Lois Areno, with Simone Burton, Finele Carpenter, Susan McDonald, and Janet Woytak. Moore's next Bond film,For Your Eyes Only,premiered on June 24, 1981, only a few days afterThe Cannonball Run.
  • Farrah Fawcettas tree-loving photographer Pamela Glover. J.J. calls her "Beauty."
  • Dean Martin,as race car driver Jamie Blake, andSammy Davis Jr.as scam artist and degenerate gambler Morris Fenderbaum, both disguised as Catholic priests.Jimmy "The Greek" Snyderplays himself as Fenderbaum bets on his success (Snyder was Dean Martin's neighbor when both were growing up inSteubenville, Ohio). Blake's car, aFerrari 308 GTS1979, is the same as the model in the TV series TVMagnum, P.I.
  • George Furthas Arthur J. Foyt, the insipid, uptight main antagonist of the film, who tries to have the race stopped
  • Jackie ChanandMichael Huias drivers of aSubaru GLfilled with gadgets. In the opening part of the film, Chan and Hui are introduced on a talk show (hosted byJohnny Yune) as the operators of Japan's entry into the race. Both Chan and Hui are actuallyHongkongers(Chinese). Jackie Chan's character is referred to as "Jackie Chan."
  • Jamie Farras Sheik Abdul ben Falafel, a wealthyArabianpotentate determined to win the race, even if he has to buy it.Bianca Jaggermakes a brief appearance as his sister. Farr's car is a souped-upRolls-Royce Silver Shadow.The Sheik is the only character to appear in all threeCannonballRunfilms.
  • Mel TillisandTerry Bradshaware Mel and Terry, a couple of "good ol' boys"driving a 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna NASCARHawaiian Tropicreplica, then, at the start of the race they have a Monte Carlo.
  • Adrienne BarbeauandTara Buckmanas Marcie Thatcher and Jill Rivers, satin-Spandex-clad "hotties" in a blackLamborghini Countachwho distract police officers with cleavage. The same Lamborghini was used in the film's opening credits as it was being pursued by aNevada Highway Patrolcar after spray-painting a 55 mph speed limit sign. Their character names are not mentioned during the story but appear in the end credits. Their names return in thesequel,though the parts were re-cast.
  • Valerie Perrinehas a cameo as the state trooper pulling over the Lamborghini duo, beating them at their own game
  • Peter Fondahas acameo rolereferencing his motorcycle gang leader character inThe Wild Angelswhile wearing his stars&stripes leather jacket fromEasy Rider.The appearance of Fonda and his motorcycle gang during a halt in the race offered an excuse for Chan and others ( "I'm Roger Moore!" ) to demonstrate the fighting skills. Fonda's big, bald buddy ( "Roger Who?" ) is played by biker movie veteranRobert Tessier
  • Bert Convyas wealthy but bored executive Bradford Compton, who planned to run the Cannonball by motorcycle with the help of an old friend, Shakey Finch (Warren Berlinger), once the world's greatest cross-country motorcyclist. The two planned to disguise themselves as newlyweds. Compton's now portly ally forces the motorcycle into awheeliefor the entire race.
  • Jack Elamas Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, same name as thefamous vampire hunter.This Van Helsing is aproctologistand graduate of theUniversity of Rangoon,and the Knoxville, Tennessee College ofFaith Healing.[7]
  • Rick Avilesand Alfie Wise as Mad Dog and Batman, tow truck drivers who jump the train flatcar.
  • John Fiedleras the desk clerk.
  • Joe Kleckoas thePolishdriver in the van who gets pulled over by Mr. Foyt (Klecko was not only an active player in theNational Football League,like Bradshaw, but also a trucker in the off season).
  • Car and DriverMagazinecolumnist and correspondentBrock Yates,who having created the real-life Cannonball Run, wrote the film directly for the screen, plays the race organizer of who lays down the rules at the starting line.
  • DirectorHal Needhamappears uncredited as the ambulance EMT.
  • VeteranDaytona 500commentatorKen Squier,along withNFL on CBSproducer Robert D. Stenner, who produced the CBS Daytona 500 broadcasts from 1979 to 1993 (except in 1992), appear as California Highway Patrolmen.
  • Veteran voice actorJune Forayprovided the dubbed dialogue of several of the women who escort Goldfarb in the race ( "Seymour's girls", as the opening credits list them) in an uncredited performance.[8]

Production

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The film continued directorHal Needham's tradition of showing a gag reel ofbloopersduring the closing credits (a practice he started withSmokey and the Bandit II).Jackie Chansays this inspired him to do the same at the end of most of his films.

Original race

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The film is based on the 1979 running of theCannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash,an actual cross-country outlaw road race held four times in the 1970s, starting at the Red Ball Garage on 31st Street in New York City (later the Lock, Stock and Barrel Restaurant in Darien,Connecticut) and ending at the Portofino Inn inRedondo Beach, California,in Los Angeles.

The screenwriter was automotive journalistBrock Yates,who had conceived the real-life Cannonball Baker event. Yates had originally proposed the race as a writer forCar and Driver.[9]The race had only one rule: "All competitors will drive any vehicle of their choosing, over any route, at any speed they judge practical, between the starting point and destination. The competitor finishing with the lowest elapsed time is the winner".

Yates' team was the only participant in the original 1971 running, which was named after the driver Ernest "Cannonball" Baker, who drove across country in 1927 and made it in 60 hours. Yates wrote a book about it calledThe Sunday Driver.In 1973 it was reportedJohn G. Avildsenand writer Eugene Price was to make a film based on the book calledThe Cannonball-Baker-Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.[10]The film was not made but the race did inspire the (unrelated) 1976 filmsCannonballandThe Gumball Rally.

1979 race

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In the March 1979 race Yates formed one of 46 teams with director Hal Needham to compete with a 150-MPH van converted into an ambulance, with LA doctor Lyell Royer, and Brock's second wife, Pamela Reynolds, riding as the patient on the gurney. Although the ambulance never made it to the finish line — the transmission gave out 50 miles short of the Redondo Beach finish line[11]— Yates made it to the movie as a race official and Needham as an EMT, as did the ambulance itself and even the transmission failure. The ambulance was stopped once, in Pennsylvania; that event made it into the movie, as did a cop stopping traffic in Kansas, exiting from a rodeo, to let the ambulance pass unimpeded.[12]

The Right Bra team was put together by rail-thin auto writer Judy Stropus, race driverDonna Mae Mimsand Peggy Niemcek, whose husband was part of another entry, driving a Cadillac limo. In the movie, it became a two-woman team led by buxomAdrienne Barbeaudriving a Lamborghini, but as auto writer Stropus said decades later, "a little editorial license never hurt anyone".[13]Yates points out in his bookCannonball![14]that Stropus's version of the race does not mention the baptism with green fluid from the porta-potty the three girls experienced when the limo overturned.

Script

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The characters J.J. and Victor participate in the Cannonball Run in anambulance:a heavily modifiedDodge van.In the beginning, J.J. says to himself "we could get a blackTrans Am",then answers his own question with" Nah that's been done ", a reference to theSmokey and the Banditfilms of Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham.

In an attempt to appear legitimate to law enforcement, the team of J.J. and Victor hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, a frightening, yet friendly,physicianof questionable skill played byJack Elam.They kidnap attractive young photographer Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett) — whom they nickname "Beauty" — to be their cover patient. Beauty vehemently opposes her kidnapping first, but eventually comes to sympathize with her captors and falls for J.J.

Development

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Yates and Needham worked on a script and Al Ruddy became attached as producer. They wanted Reynolds to star, but he was reluctant to make more car-themed films. He was eventually persuaded by Needham's promise to keep the actor's schedule to only 14 days of filming, and a fee of $5 million plus a percentage of the profits. Finance came fromRaymond Chowof Golden Harvest, who requested that Jackie Chan be included in the cast.

Reynolds later said: "I did that film for all the wrong reasons. I never liked it. I did it to help out a friend of mine, Hal Needham. And I also felt it was immoral to turn down that kind of money. I suppose I sold out so I couldn't really object to what people wrote about me."[15]

Reception

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Box office

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A huge commercial success,The Cannonball Runopened June 19, 1981 on 1,673 screens and grossed $11,765,574 in its opening weekend,[16]the fourth highest opening of all time, but this was not enough to beatSuperman IIthat opened the same weekend with a record-breaking $14,100,523.[17]The film went on to gross $72,179,579 in the United States and Canada,[16]making it thesixth highest-grossing film of 1981,behindRaiders of the Lost Ark,On Golden Pond,Superman II,Arthur,andStripes.[18]

It was also successful overseas. In France,The Cannonball Runsold 988,509 box office admissions in 1981. In Germany, the film sold 4,825,937 admissions, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1981.[19]In Japan, it was the second highest-grossing foreign film of 1982, grossing¥2.1 billionat the box office.[20]The film grossed overUS$100 millionworldwide in its initial run,[21]and went on to gross a worldwide total of$160 million.[4]

Critical response

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Despite its box office success, most critics reviewed the film negatively. It has received an approval rating of 29% onReview aggregationwebsiteRotten Tomatoesbased on 34 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Cannonball Runcasts a bevy of famous faces as its wacky racers but forgets to give them characters to play, resulting in 90 dull minutes that feel like a marathon ".[22]Roger Ebertgave the film a half-star out of four, calling it "an abdication of artistic responsibility at the lowest possible level of ambition. In other words, they didn't even care enough to make a good lousy movie".[23]Varietydescribed the film as "full of terribly inside showbiz jokes and populated by what could be called Burt and Hal's Rat Pack, film takes place in that redneck never-never land where most of the guys are beer-guzzling good ole boys and all the gals are fabulously built tootsies".[24] Vincent Canby ofThe New York Timescalled the film "inoffensive and sometimes funny. Because there are only a limited number of variations that can be worked out on this same old highway race, don't bother to see it unless you're already hooked on the genre".[25]

Accolades

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The film was nominated for aRazzie Awardfor Worst Supporting Actress for Fawcett, but lost toDiana Scarwidfor the cult filmMommie Dearest.[26]

Accident

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On June 25, 1980, 24-year-oldGerman Americanstuntwoman Heidi von Beltz, a former championship skier, stuntwoman, and aspiring actress, was critically injured in acar crashduring production of the film. The original stunt person had left the production to attend an emergency family illness, and the stunt coordinatorBobby Basscalled his then-fiancée von Beltz to the set for a stunt that he said was to be "a piece of cake." The car was to be driven by stuntman Jimmy Nickerson, and required him to weave between oncoming vehicles. Meanwhile, von Beltz was asked to ride in the passenger seat, operating a smoke machine, giving the impression the car was on fire.

The car, an Aston Martin, had been beset with mechanical problems, including defective steering, clutch, and speedometer. It also had bald tires and no seat belts. Nickerson asked for repairs to the car, and while some were done, other things were left unfixed, including the lack of seatbelts.[27][28]During the planned stunt the car collided head-on with a van, breaking von Beltz' neck and leaving her quadriplegic.[29]

When it became clear that von Beltz' personal injury lawsuit would exceed all available primary insurance coverage, the production's excess insurer, Interstate Fire (a subsidiary ofFireman's Fund Insurance Company) sued von Beltz and her employer, Stuntman Inc., for a declaratory judgment that von Beltz's lawsuit was not covered under its policy. In 1988, theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuitruled that therewasaduty to defend,and that there was also a duty to indemnify to the extent that von Beltz was seeking recovery for mental injuries (the exclusion for bodily injuries was ruled to be enforceable).[30]

She was eventually awarded $7 million although a judge reduced the amount and she ended up with $3.2 million.[31]Much of the settlement went to her attorneys and to paying off medical bills. Her lawsuit against the movie's producers led to required seat-belt use in all stunt cars and caused the Directors Guild to prohibit directors from altering stunts on location.[32]She died in October 2015 at age 59.[33]

Legacy

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The film was followed by two sequels,Cannonball Run II(1984) andSpeed Zone(1989).The Cannonball RunandCannonball Run IIwere one of Dean Martin’s last films. The film also featured Jackie Chan in his second Hollywood role, afterThe Big Brawl(1980).

Sega AM2game designerYu SuzukicitedThe Cannonball Runas an influence on his hit 1986arcade racinggameOut Run.[34]

Remake

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Warner Bros.has acquired the rights to theCannonball Runfranchise and in 2016 setEtan Cohento write and direct a remake asCannonball.Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer were hired as producers.[35]

Doug Limanwas in early talks to direct the film from a script byThomas LennonandRobert Ben Garantin June 2018.[36]

See also

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References

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  1. ^The rights to the film are currently owned byFortune Star Media.
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