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this is the theater rod
full of memories from a thousand nights opening
I think you ask yourself,
"What to do?
with tonight's show?"
Well, I will tell you.
None.
[country music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Baby girl ♪
♪ Ask me to pay attention to you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Baby girl ♪
♪ Ask me to pay attention to you ♪
- My name is Hal Needham.
You will not recognize my face.
But I'm sure you've seen a lot of my work
For 20 years, I've been a Hollywood stuntman ♪ ♪
- ♪ This is not something ♪
- Not too bad, huh?
When a stuntman does it type of driving,
he is better acting together,
because there is there is no room for errors
♪ ♪
But recently, I graduated.
I direct a movie.
And the film stars a good friend of mine,
my old roommate,
good boys who might
You people will admit...
[finger button] like that.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Baby girl ♪
♪ Ask me to watch you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Yes ♪
[tire squealing]
- Women and men, Burt Reynolds.
[dramatic music]
- Burt Reynolds
The most exciting star on today's screen
♪ ♪
- Burt Reynolds is Gator McKlusky.
Does he fight for law
or chasing women.
[banjo music]
[dramatic stinging music]
- Ah!
- Burt Reynolds, quarterback
who will overcome anything
- You see Charlie Bronson. [laughter]
[siren]
- Now you are Burt Reynolds' acrobatics.
Where does Burt like? to draw the line
as far as doing your own stunts worry?
- Okay, actually, uh,
I've never seen Burt draw the line
He will do anything you want to finish
Insurance companies sometimes draw lines,
And, um, but really and really, he doesn't draw the line
I've seen it do some things that, uh,
just scary flat - I mean, There is no other way to say it.
[dramatic music]
[quiet music]
- What is the job a stuntman
- [laughs] Stunt guy objects
is to come and see as many as because you can like the actor.
They will dress like you and him fix your hair, whatever,
and whatever they want to do, does it fall horse,
fall high, or who knows, a fight,
Can do it many times
like you can do it without getting hurt
- First, they will come out,
and they will shoot four or five days with all stuntmen.
There are no actors
That wide shot for stunt people.
[motor roaring]
And then they bring the actors out,
and they will do - tight shots,
and medium shot.
- if you are the biggest actor in the world,
You want to have the best stuntman in the world
next to you-- why not?
[bouncing bullet]
[country music]
- Damn, Pops, didn't tell me they will shoot back!
♪ ♪
[goose honks the horn]
- Burt believes in Hal and knows it's Hal
will do stunts
it really will make it look good.
♪ ♪
[tire squealing]
♪ ♪
- Hall and Burt are guys who appears
at a time in the 70s when something could happen
Burt is an actor with all
equipment that is owned by an actor.
And Hal Needham are people who act.
- ready [crash cymbals]
- I have seen many actors
have a good relationship with stuntmen,
but never like Hal and Burt do it.
- That's the closest relationship I've seen
in image business
- But you don't want to get it too close to an actor,
I don't believe
And - just - you know,
You only - it won't work really well
- Okay, Hal, how did you meet Burt,
like on Smokey and, uh, and bears?
- "Smokey and the Bandit." - and bandits
Is that something? it is found as property
and then search for you
to complete the film, or do you come first
- No, I - I wrote "Smokey and Bandit."
- Oh. I understand Do you direct this film?
- Yeah. - This is kind of, uh,
unusual case, not so, Hal?
I mean, I've heard of actors reverse directors
I have heard of writers reverse directors,
but never a stuntman.
[dramatic music]
- I'm doing a film with Burt
in Georgia called "Gator."
That thread is placed "Smokey" together.
- We spend a lot of time in swamp, you know,
and I - I remember, everyone said,
"Are you not afraid? in the swamp?"
Only, you know, Needham from down there
We all come from other places
He is like at home.
We have a lot of Coors
beer we dropped it from Los Angeles,
because at that time, at the end of the working day,
everyone has beer
Needham and I talk about how
Coors continues to disappear from our mini bar.
So we finally realized that our housemaids were
help themselves for our beer
So we ask them, I say, "This is Coors beer, man.
You know? What are you doing?"
He said, "Okay, I understand like $ 20 a six pack
for this beer here Because you can't get it."
Hal and I looked at each other, and we said, "Okay,
" maybe we should-- Maybe we should make a movie
"about getting Coors beer, you know,
on the East Coast."
- At that time, I really have some doubts
whether this is even true or not
In other words, I don't know how you are
prohibit beer companies from sending beer
from one geographical location to another.
- Said, "Hey, let's go do truck films
" with Coors and fast cars,
and let's see what we can come up with. "
And at that time, truck very romantic industry
♪ ♪
Modern truck driver, last American cowboy
♪ ♪
- He said that wrote a scenario
All people say, "Dream pipe is good, p."
- Between shots, he will do it in his room,
and he scribbles, and I say,
"What is you do? " He said," I'm writing a story! "
You know, and he told me a little about that,
and I think, "Eh, okay, anything," you know
- He handed me this mash, you know,
pad notes, and sights, and characters,
and all this.
- Actually, I think my mother
type script for "Smokey and the Bandit."
♪ ♪
- We play with different names for films
Maybe called "Bandit"
at one point, or "Bandit."
I just want to throw something on the
screen that person can be entertained with,
and I think laughter is contagious,
and I think people enjoy action.
Not violence, action.
♪ ♪
- We will sell it to a company called AIP,
made small, exploitative film genre
That is the first incarnation.
We want to do our own things.
♪ ♪
- Search!
[shot]
[dramatic music]
- Hal Needham has made a live, you know, sort of
falls on his head for 20 or 30 years
And, you know, he's a good man - not a Rhodes scholar.
[trumpet music]
- Things say to me, "I'm too old
to bury my head on the ground again."
Behind his mind, he always wants it either star or director.
- Every stuntman, every second unit,
every cameraman, everything-- You know old jokes,
everyone wants to be a director
- He has the manuscript that he has written,
and he took it to Universal Studios,
and say, "I want to direct this film."
- The person who runs the studio, he - you know, he--
"He's a stuntman. He can't direct a movie.
What are they talking about?" You know?
[sweeping orchestral music]
Unless you have that movie star,
bankable film star, which says,
"I want to be a Bandit,"
You won't get it made.
♪ ♪
- They say, "This is a good script.
Do you think you can get roommates to star in this?" - Hiya How are you?
Big star. Big stars. I.
♪ ♪
[throws a tire] [laughs]
- Burt and I at a show together, and, uh,
I came one night, and I said, "You know, Burt,"
I say, "I have to find me igloo, teepee,
" or something to live in,
Because I just got thrown out home. "
And he said," Hell, come on more - stay in my place
for a few days, I don't care. "
- My father moved Burt Reynolds house.
He will stay there for a week or two,
and I think he is there for like 11 years.
I mean, if you can-- if you can imagine
compile bachelor pad at that time - that--
that... I think, of all the houses that are owned by Burt,
I - I think I like it it's the best
- First thing, I think those people
will see when they go in the bedroom
is, uh, the mirror on the roof.
- They are both single, and, uh,
have a lot of girlfriends, and
fun.
- Large bathroom,
and it also has mirrors, and tiles.
And by chance I - tile is mine The second favorite thing in life.
It only gives me joy, tile.
If I can spend it the rest of my life
in a room, it will happen tiles and mirrors.
The dining room is, uh, early Indian.
I mean, kind of Indian design.
Uh, I think so is rather classy.
The third favorite in my life are Indians
If I can find Indians with a mirror who do tile work,
I might be happy for the rest of my life.
- [laughs]
- I took home the manuscript and gave it to Burt.
Burt looked at him and he said, "Things," he said,
"That's the worst dialogue I've read in my life."
But he said, uh, overall The concept was pretty good.
He said, "If you can do it my name is strength,
" and take the money someone who is pretty stupid
to let you direct it, "said, " You can direct it. " [optimistic music]
- And Burt said," You know, There is only one person in America
who can direct this film, That's Hal Needham. "
- ♪ Shake, shake ♪
all: we want Burt
- Does Burt say, you know,
Adolf Hitler, I will agree
Burt is a big movie star.
all: We want Burt: - Are you here to see Burt?
- Who else? Who else?
- What happened there? so much good
in Burt Reynolds that he makes people happy
And that is a natural gift he has
- Burt Reynolds
Difficult. Section. Superstar
- Is that a lot of pressure, Burt?
Like this from a sex symbol?
- He hits chords like that with the American public.
- We are very happy - - I work alone
[laughter]
- Humor, and excitement, and honesty.
That's real, so he becomes
number one star In the world.
- ♪ Beat your obstacles, shake your groove ♪
♪ Yes, yes, ♪
♪ Show us how we do it now ♪
♪ Shake your groove, shake your groove ♪
♪ Yes, yes ♪
♪ Show us how we do it now ♪
- Put one on the cheek. - Hah?
[crowd cheering]
♪ ♪
I just think I'm the best Burt Reynolds is there.
[laughter]
[quiet music]
♪ ♪
- In short, Can you tell me
What is the story "Smokey and Bandit" are?
- [laughs] I can't tell you
what story "Smokey and Bandit"
if you put a gun into my head
- Thunder, thunder ♪
♪ Over Thunder Road ♪
♪ Thunder is the engine ♪
♪ And White Lightning is the burden ♪
♪ Moonshine, moonshine ♪
♪ To extinguish devil thirst ♪
♪ Law, they never get it ♪
♪ Because of the devil for her first ♪
♪ ♪
- We have done two Burt Reynolds films in United Artists:
image called "Gator," and a image called
"White Lightning," and, you know, that,
You know, the same movie above and again.
He is a good boy,
a little on the other side of the line
about law and order
- Gator? Gator McKlusky?
- Uh... - Shirley.
- Shirley? How are you dear? - Well, hi, there.
- I don't want to play either ol 'boys
for the rest of my life.
At the same time, I offer a film
who has "got the tuxedo out"
written on it.
That is the part that changes careers.
I say "No," and nobody can believe me I said "no".
My agent can't believe it, and, uh...
That is not a matter of money.
They ask - they offer me
more money than Hal,
but I promise to Hal
that I will do this film
- I will give praise to my roommate
everything on the phone so I can have
a directing shot.
- Dear, I can't determine
Universal is reluctant to agree to create images
[funky music]
- If you will do it bootlegging movie,
You need a blocker.
You have a truck driver and you have -
a man car blocker, you have two
- I don't remember whether Burt, or Hal,
or both suggest Jerry Reed.
[grumble]
♪ ♪
[shouts]
- You know, and then You must have a girl.
- Hi.
- Who are you?
- I want Sally Field, and they have lots, uh--
have many people who fight it
They keep saying, "He's not sexy."
♪ ♪
- And then we must have someone chasing them
- My hope is, with sheriff,
"Let's put someone in this case movies that are not included."
- And I mean the same as is not possible.
First of all, I get a pencil mustache for the sheriff.
A Southern Sheriff with a pencil mustache?
- When Things go to do "Smokey and Bandit,"
Hilton Green at Universal says Needham, he said,
"I hope so your roller skates,
Because you can't do it."
They do not believe in Hal as director
- All politics is created
a large amount of pressure on Hal.
He puts his reputation on the phone
to get "Smokey and the Bandit" finished
- My father, he doesn't Play the game.
He is not Hollywood.
He is who he is.
He said, "If I don't do it 'Smokey and the Bandit,'
" Maybe I'll take a tin
on the roadside to live. "
- We have some childhood photos of from you,
and I think maybe, Arnold,
see if you can recognize them
all: aww ! - I am a farmer's child = ♪ ♪
- Is there time at all for - for hobbies,
or anything that will - - Hobbies?
- Type gives you pleasure or gives you pleasure
- Hobbies?
I can tell you have never seen a farmer
Hey, listen: just the food on the table,
stay warm in winter,
is a big achievement.
My childhood, man, You must know,
being a small farmer child the bottom of the totem pole
There is nothing lower than that
- I think he told me they have dirt for the floor,
with very limited education.
He told me one of them friends once said,
"I've never seen anyone else do it a lot with so few tools."
[aircraft engine humming]
- I was in the 82nd Airborne, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
But after about 2 1/2 years, I can see
that I don't get praise
for my creativity or being a great soldier,
and I am a good soldier.
I said, "It must be so better way
I go west until my hat floats."
And the next morning, I was at my house the car headed to California
I have never worked in a movie.
But I have all that experience.
I decided I would be like that a stuntman
When I get my first chance, I'm ready
I do something where I - I am on an airplane,
a man riding together riding a horse,
and I dive out of the plane -
or jump out of an airplane -
and drop it from the horse - it's called "Bulldog."
♪ ♪
[shot]
They pay me a lot of money.
People say I can't do it Because I'm too small,
too stupid.
I always have to prove the opposite.
- Hal Needham. [applause]
- We have 30 days to make a good film
[country music]
- The film commission has been very aggressive in terms of attracting not only us,
but many film companies here
It's - this is very helpful They have closed the highway for us, they have, um--
rip off old parts bridges for us
that we will go throw the car across
This is just great.
- Mark. - Hold all the noise.
All talk, everything. Shut up.
- All images shot 16, 17 miles
far from the center from downtown Atlanta
In the film business, you put a sign
which says "Entering Mississippi,"
and you enter Mississippi.
But with respect and affection for Hal,
this is new to him, really, like me.
When we go to work the first morning,
You know, I wake up, sort of standing around,
waiting for things to happen.
You know, the production the manager asks me
what should we do, and I don't have -
You know, a clue.
- And I remember, the first day,
Hal and I stopped to the location
Sitting under a tree in the director's chair,
with stretching the Fleetwood
limousine gold next to it
is Jackie Gleason
And Jackie is sitting In the chair of this director,
wearing black Gucci recreational suit
with red carnations.
And there is no one there.
Is the first person on the set.
There are no other people!
- Does directing anything at all
as you think it will happen?
- Well, I'm not afraid to enter
I mean, we don't do it "Go with the wind"
or "Fiddler on the Roof".
This is a comedy action.
Light only for colors, and let's shoot.
Speed, speed, speed.
- In a big movie, you can do it three pages a day
It will shoot 16 pages a day
We do crazy things,
right on the edge madness
- Hal Needham directs Burt, uh,
This is a new process, You know, for them.
- I think he just wants Burt to Burt.
- I - I have no doubt about going there
and say "Action".
- Yeah.
- Oh my God.
- You walk on a set, and there is a Panavision camera,
and all lights, and there is Burt Reynolds.
- Old legend never dies,
they only lose weight
- A legend and out-of-work bum looks very similar, Dad.
You go, "Oh, my God, how do I--
how did I get here?"
- [laughs]
Now, get to Texarkana and come back,
Within 28 hours, that doesn't matter.
- Never been done before - [horn honking].
- Be careful with your language, small women.
The problem is that Coors beer,
You take eastern Texas, and that's, uh,
it's bootlegging
There are many things about South
that I feel ashamed,
But there are also some things about South
it's amazing
I hope to make
something from that
in a way that no one sees.
Nobody thinks about Florida as South,
but if we have enough time in this event,
I can take you to where you will realize
that this is South.
I want to make it very bad When I grow up here.
I mean, I really want it to make it worse
But good, good memories.
Very beautiful memories
My father is a cowboy.
He's tough, and rude,
and the most honest person
I've known in my life.
- We have our little offs and ounces,
but he is-- normal child
He experiences many problems like other people
- He put me in jail one night to fight
I remember he entered, and he said, uh,
"You kids, uh, your father is here
" You can go home now.
Your father is here, You can go home now, "
and he looks at me, he says,
" Your father isn't here. "
So I stayed there overnight.
There is a saying in South, it's
"No male is male
to his father Tell him. "
- I think his father hopes Many of him.
He's kind of gold boys in soccer,
and it seems like he will do it has a big
career pro and career careers.
- He tore in his senior years in high school,
tear cartilage from both sides the knees.
- Well, he's a little lost.
He - all he ever did was playing football
I am ready to be cast and immediately play,
"Outward Bound."
Burt sits in the front row in my English literary class,
and he looks like that person that I want
for the role of the alcoholic.
- And I said, "You came out of your bird."
You know, and I say,
"I've never been in a drama in my life."
I somehow went to that room,
and walk there, and he looks at me,
and he said, "Read."
And I opened the book and went "The--"
and he said, "That's it. You have a part."
- I saw something in Burt.
I - I see the spark.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[strange music]
- I hate "Riverboat." I hate doing it.
I have a character that I call "Dum-Dum Whistleblower."
You know... [imitating horns].
Connie, cut to half the speed.
- Aye, sir Half speed!
- They will bring in stuntmen
They are men. We are boys.
- [screaming]
- Stars always migrate
for stunt people.
They see some reality.
There is no acting.
- They are athletes, and, uh--
and that's what I experienced.
[optimistic music]
- Burt is very capable.
He can do everything.
But you can't do it all.
You must have - You must - You need a double.
- At Universal, they just hired me
to enter and double someone.
They say, "Yeah, here's your clothes."
I say, "Who am I doubling?" They say, "Down
" to the set and find someone dressed like you,
and that's what you doubled. "
And I got there, and that's Burt.
♪ ♪
- Things came to take action,
and he will double me,
and I thought, "Hell, I can do that."
♪ ♪
[horse whinnies]
♪ ♪
[shouting]
♪ ♪
He said, "You can be so very useful."
"Useful" is a super compliment for stuntman
He always says, "The perpetrator is candy.
I don't want to be an actor."
[broken glass]
- I always feel that Burt
what kind of want to do what is being done Hal.
and there will be 18, 20 stunts out there practicing
- Most people are less than the top physical condition
The first and foremost for each stuntman
is a good warm-up, as it should be for you
- Medic! Medical! Medical!
- Yeah, they are pirates.
Walking around, having fun.
[groove music]
When I first saw the group, it reminded me
from Butch Cassidy and Hole on the Wall gang.
And we are all Hole in the Wall gang.
♪ ♪
There is an outline in the film
Butch said, you know, "Look, I have vision.
All others use bifocal. "
Hal Needham is-- Butch Cassidy's character. They will say, "We want you to enter this car,
"Down and reverse at 90 miles per hour,
" The explosion, out burning,
walk across the street, and die. "
I will say," OK. "
- He has more or less a group of guys together
who can do anything
- We just started our own organization
called Unlimited Stunts.
- Right when we start Stunts Unlimited,
and we have an office in the parking lot at Paramount.
Paramount doesn't even know We have an office there.
- Three or four years, we are the biggest,
the most famous organization In the world.
♪ ♪
- wake up in - very early,
and go to the set,
go through the wardrobe, makeup, hair,
gets a burrito, jumps on your horse,
go to work-- it's just the best And then at night, You go back to the hotel,
You stop at the bar, You have several belts,
have a few more and say, "Let's go, friend."
17 Bar and Grill.
Cover up.
We will enter, the person who is fighting will be
will work to get the horse ready for us
We will take a shower and go to work.
That - it's crazy
And things really have rules
that you did not bring your wife at location
because of that.
This will cause problems, do you know?
Well, we managed to pass it many wives
♪ ♪
- What are you two doing? in the movie?
- Well, we sit - we drink a lot
champagne in the movie
We sit at the table, and
just, uh, more or less
speak with Pat McCormick and Paul Williams.
Then Burt Reynolds goes up to the scene
- Has Burt tried to make you?
- No. We hope, but not. [laughter]
- No, we are more - we are more or less hopeful
that he will let us put make him.
♪ ♪
- Beware! Everyone is clear.
- What you just saw was a scene from the new Burt Reynolds film
"Smokey and Bandits," are being filmed here in
Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta
- Pontiac Division in General Motors gives us
four sedans that we use as police cars,
and they gave us two Trans Ams, and that's it.
[roaring machine]
- O-o-kay!
- In the second week of the picture,
both Trans Ams have been destroyed
and we have to go back and beg to get some more
- Beautiful? - baby, hush
[laughter]
- Jerry Reed leaves, "Honey, quiet."
[70 rock music]
♪ ♪
The way he said it, first
the most handsome gal you've seen.
♪ ♪
- I like it, I like it!
I mean, I really got a kick
get out of driving Firebird.
♪ ♪
- It seems like there is something about Trans Am bleeding.
As a symbol your holiday horse
The male animal wannabe warrior
who is now working in a factory somewhere
connect with that character, the car.
Maybe it's the element escaping
I mean, this is a runaway movie,
But this is a runaway film.
That is a good answer.
- What about all those crazy stunts in the car?
Have you ever had - A car that is really far away?
- Oh yeah. I mean...
First of all, look, I like cars.
I mean, I can chat with a car.
Swipe sideways, spin completely,
360 degrees, do all that with that,
and know exactly where the car is
- Why do you drive like that, Hal?
- Why do I drive like that?
Well, there are several reasons.
Money number one, and the second is, uh,
we make films
- Fast cars, that's dangerous goods
Either we are jumping on a boat,
or jump a car, or jump horse, that's all -
everything comes from
basic stunt work, it all starts
with horses and battles.
[country rock music]
- what?
- I personally believe that, uh,
When you work with animals, you have a better chance
from, uh, get someone is injured
than you do with a car, Because of the car
do not care about explosion or bullet hits
or whatever it is -
it will go wherever you direct it,
and it will only go as fast as possible
as you mash the accelerator.
♪ ♪
- It's just like Westerners slowly fade,
and this comes all pictures of cars
- Okay, fearless, let me ask you this:
has there been any action that someone wants to do
In a movie that you say, flat-out, "no."
- [chuckles] I never turned down an action
I say, "If - if you can put a man on the moon,
You can definitely know how to take action."
- Several times, Hal does it wake up above his head
There is an action where I should say something,
but I think, "Alright, wait a minute.
He is Hal Needham. Shut your mouth."
- When you multiply it a leading man,
You want to make it look like a hero
[roaring machine]
- "white flash," where there is a scene
Burt Reynolds character, medium twice as much by Hal Needham,
is trying to escape police officer,
Where he sees big old sand barges pull out
to the middle of from the river.
So he turns the car sideways, and then goes
down the dock and jump the car.
Think it might be 70, 80 feet crossing to the barge
Even though he hit pretty good,
he got out of the car and continued to play his role.
And after we cut, and he fell -
[laughs]
But he always finishes shooting.
- Well, I'll be damned
- Busted the spleen.
Damn nearly died
- You know, stuntman, you know, [laughs],
You can get hurt there, and they just
Agile you go and keep shooting.
But the actor goes down, you're done.
- We are filming "The Man Who Loving Cat Dancing."
He has a hernia the bottom of this canyon.
It is 200 feet tall.
They can't even get it a helicopter there
So I turned to Burt and I said, "Tell me what, son,"
I say, "If you can hold to my back,
" They throw the rope here,
I can take you out of here. "
So I take it hills on my back
We get to the top, they have a helicopter,
they throw it in, and they forget to take me out,
lay eggs on the ground all out of breath
You know... [laughs]. It's just a shot from Burt and I
down on his farm in Florida.
It says, "For the best roomie
"A man can ask, and a great person.
Love, Burt."
- We have this crazy type event arrangement,
that I usually wake up in the morning,
and will stumble down the hall,
and there will be a note on the bathroom door said,
"That place is yours,
" but I need it for the next three days.
Hope you don't mind. Cinta, Roomie. "
And that means I'm out, and I do it
- I don't know that I'm falling love instantly,
but I'm sure I really like that guy.
My first date with Hal was in his house
with Burt and Dinah Shore.
[laughs]
That is an interesting time.
- Burt and Dinah are lovers.
He is cougar At that time, I guess.
- I want to make it very clear
that there are many areas where
Things aren't twice Burt.
Good?
[laughter and applause]
- I want to know something:
he and I start almost simultaneously
What happened?
I mean, I'm more handsome than he is
I am more talented. What? What?
- This - I'll explain it to you. - Good.
I hope someone will do it. - Yeah.
This - very simple.
You don't have a problem. - Good.
- Because you are real choreographer.
I mean, the fight was staged...
- I say what, I don't care who it is.
I always say the biggest thing about a man is his ego.
And I'm not different than others
- OK. - Ready?
- Things want to be stars.
I think, quietly, he must be
like to be Burt Reynolds.
- Ah! - On the other hand, I think
Burt wants to be Hal Needham,
but know that the bread will become butter
on the side of a movie star.
[applause]
[laughter]
[country music]
♪ ♪
[cheering]
- For small homework, we put an advertisement in the newspaper,
"Burt Reynolds will be be judge
" dog show to take a dog
to be in the movie " and all. out there
Burt said, "That's your dog,"
and that's what happened in the movie
- Now Bo, I say,
Fred won't be a problem.
- I can see he will be the main asset
- [laughs]
[laughter]
- Jerry Reed kicked him with everyone
And on the set, He brought the band there.
Things and I were invited to the room,
and they play this little song called "Eastbound and Down,"
and ask Hal, "Do you like it? What do you think about that?"
Ha ha, that's amazing!
And that - This is a song on the film.
- A-one, two, three, go.
Breaker, breaker, one-nine?
What about the bandits? Do you wear it, kid?
♪ ♪
♪ To the east and down ♪
♪ Load it up and the truck ♪
Rest for that one Bandit, break for the one bandit.
- Yeah, Snowmen Come back
♪ I go east, just watch ol 'Bandit run ♪
- This is Sheriff Buford T. Justice again.
I lost the Trans Am! Set the road block!
- Good idea.
- ♪ A thirsty boy in Atlanta ♪
- Bandits, here it is Grave robbers
Put the pedal to the metal, good friends
And we will hold this county mountie as long as we can
Come on.
- Bandits, baby, this is
Good Witch from the North speak.
You better not come like this.
- ♪ Go east, just watch ol 'Bandit run ♪
♪ ♪
[booming horn]
- This is Bandit, honey.
- And how can I help? Bring it back.
♪ ♪
- I know the music before I know that guy,
and the music arrived at me.
I understand everything.
This Bandit character loves Jerry Reed
We have a relationship that is very similar,
in some ways, for me and Hal.
He's crazy, but crazy good
- ♪ Alright, ol 'Smokey's makes them hear it on ♪
♪ He is hot in your way ♪
♪ And he won't rest ♪
♪ Until you are in jail ♪
♪ So you have to avoid it, You have to burden him ♪
♪ You have to stay the diesel truck '♪
♪ Just move the hammer and give it hell ♪
- What is good news?
Someone you really like get along with,
and you can trust.
Not too serious,
but always finish the job.
Not a lot of anxiety in good boys,
like this.
- I think many people say that
People become actors because they are not happy with themselves,
and they can hide on other people's skin.
But that's not true - people become actors, I think,
because we are happy people.
And, uh, the only sensation For us, really,
Do you get pleasure from what we do
Oh my God!
[laughter]
I want to be considered someone
who pays their contributions and is a good actor.
I think it's there an acting school, which,
I really believe in this certain school acting,
which is called "easy."
And that - and I work 20 years
to learn how to make it looks easy
Quite honest, this is very easy
to do what I call "The School Acts Constipation."
Where do you let each show a vein in the neck,
and you just, you know, go for that with every take
And everyone says, "What a brilliant actor he is."
Well, he got Oscar and Preparation H,
and I smile.
[laughter]
- Is that an actor?
- Well, he's brilliant "Streetcar Named Desire."
- "Streetcar Named Desire?"
What is he, conductor?
- That's the time
everyone wants to be Marlon Brando.
- and who you are
- I don't know who I really am.
- Question, Rocky? - Yes, I mean, what am I, uh,
Tertiary motivation here?
I mean, like, I walk through the door,
and, uh, I saw it.
Why?
- Why what, Rocky? What is the question?
- Exactly. What is the question?
I want to play rebels.
The type of label they give me in the studio
- Saying, "Jesus Christ, he looks like Brando."
- when I first go to Hollywood,
everyone wants me to meet Marlon,
and I've heard so much Marlon Brando's story
There is a coffee house on strip called Cyrano's,
and at that time, is in place,
where all - everyone goes
to see or be seen.
We walk in - soon, there is a director
named Hubert Cornfield who approached me
and gripped me and said, "He's here!"
And I - you know, I, uh-- I said, "He?"
And he said, "Come on!"
And he pulled me from my hand shirt, and we came around,
and we stopped in front of from a table
And suddenly I realized it was Marlon
And Marlon - everyone looks at me except Marlon
Marlon is looking...
right about there
And, uh, Hubert Cornfield said,
"Marlon, is this really fantastic?"
And, like a doll, I will...
like this.
Because I think, you know,
I've been taken home to be introduced
But he never looks up, he just goes,
"Mm."
And I still extend my hand.
And there is a deadly silence in place.
And I suddenly - I have a desire to kill.
I mean, to reach across and kill
And I want to be myself - who Does he think he is?
- Burt has that thing that you have to have
to be a leading man.
He can chase you.
If he loses it, and I've seen it lose with a few people,
So, you know, he - You can't [...] around
with Burt too much
- I want to continue kill white people
- [speaking native language]
- He said you would have to prove yourself
- I will prove myself. Just give me a chance.
- Burt wants to be a star.
And I think he must have done it most anything
[speaking native language]
- Sometimes you learn more from bad movies
than you do from a good movie.
Then, it should be so a very good actor
[laughs]
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪
- ♪ Navajo Joe ♪
♪ Navajo Joe ♪
[horse whinnies]
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪
[snoring]
- I have a lot of parts
because they don't have to rent a stuntman, you know
They will say, "Get that person, he falls down the stairs
and he speaks fine," You know?
So I - I fell from the stairs and spoke.
Over time, I - I fell less and talked more.
I think you are the authority
on architecture
I don't know your hobby is boating!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Ah!
♪ ♪
[snake hiss]
- I think I might be chosen worse
than any actor in film history.
[speaking native language]
- Some movies, I say "What is the location?"
And they say, "Tahiti."
And I said, "I will take the picture."
[mellow music]
♪ ♪
I do it, eh, "Deliverance,"
which is my release from a bad movie, I thought
[gasping]
Sometimes you have to do it lose yourself
before you can find anything
- Are there snakes around here?
- I think Georgia is good Good luck for you.
Do you see it as something real a good place to make films?
- I want to shoot 4 of 5 pictures here,
who really doesn't-- won't sit too well
with many people who want to do the desert film
"Liberation" is like that like going home, you know?
Change everything for me
I have never done it good part
Because I understand this person.
Yee-hoo! What
And I - I can play it.
We have to get rid of that person!
- How will you do that, Lewis?
Where?
- wherever
Wherever.
I ask the director, John Boorman,
what part he saw me playing
That will make me right for this image,
and he said, "I didn't see you in the section.
But I saw you 'Nighttime Show.' "
[applause]
- Heyo!
- Hello - Very good.
You look very sharp. - Thank you.
- You are stylish - I just pressed
That just hit me. - Outline?
Do you get into your clothes? - suppress my entire body
- Burt Reynolds is the catch on the talk show
Everyone likes to be around Burt.
- Nice to meet you. You - You haven't changed one bit.
- Oh yeah. [laughter]
- Listen, "Deliverance" is really--
it's from a novel, this is quite serious Everything - gets rape and murder in it,
and all that.
You know, and here it is,
cavorting like jackass.
[laughter]
Not being a driver, just cavorting like one.
- Hmm.
I gamble. I really gambled.
I mean, "Deliverance" is B.C .--
"Before 'Cosmo.'"
[funky music]
♪ ♪
The bet is, will I ever do it? considered
a serious actor after that?
Will - when I die, in my rock,
whether they will say, "his contribution to the world
is he the first? centerfold naked man"?
- ♪ Ooh, grab ♪
♪ Get from the front now ♪
♪ Get it ♪
♪ Get from behind now ♪
♪ Get it, get it from the side ♪
♪ Get it, get everything ♪
- How does it feel? male pastor
who poses naked in "cosmopolitan"?
This is what we baptize call "Problems".
I don't know - I didn't tell him to take off his clothes.
And me-- I hope he doesn't do it.
But, uh, at the same time, he did it.
He is free, and I am free.
I feel free to wear my clothes,
and he feels free to release him
♪ ♪
- pose thrown Burt Reynolds for a household name.
He then becomes that person.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- That's true.
[applause]
♪ ♪
[crowd shouting]
- How many people like him? with a mustache...
[cheering]
And without mustache, like that
[cheering]
- This is a hell of a time to tell me
- Yes, I think you have to stay afloat with a mustache, Burt.
Definitely stick with it.
- "Cosmopolitan" comes out
30 days before "Deliverance."
That's very difficult
98% film critics
to separate this character who, you know,
lying on a bear carpet like an idiot,
You know, and do this strange thing,
with the actor who took it serious craft
and take the film business seriously
And many people are
I believe their instincts feel so
Maybe it's expensive a nomination that year.
- That is a bad choice Because it underestimates it.
And I know he's sorry, but - and I'm not happy
to see it for yourself
He doesn't need it.
The most serious actor don't do that
Clowns will do it
- Actually, many people never forgive me for that
I'm one of them, actually.
[country music]
♪ ♪
- What are you looking for now? What role must be owned
for you to - to really consider it?
- Well, I see now for humor,
because I happen to think so,
from my contemporaries, I must look around and say,
"Who - what's the competition?"
I can't stand on the doorstep better than Paul Newman.
And I can't have thinning hair from Robert Redford.
But I can do comedy better than one of them.
I can eat them.
- You know - hold it!
Only - the beer! Look at the beer!
[crashing]
[shouts]
- Are you okay? - Very funny! Very funny!
- I think it's funny
- Move people to laugh
very difficult,
crossing many from different cultures
And there are no questions - You ask anyone,
anyone who is creative the end of this business,
and they will always tell you:
You take a man like Jackie Gleason...
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- There isn't any script for me, trust me
I have never had a written dialogue line.
The director will stick it Head in the car window
and say, "Now, we have to go Until that,
and you will see him there - what do you want to say?"
And I will think for a while and I will say,
"What about something?" He said, "Good.
OK, let's go."
Good [...]! [booming horn]
[crashing]
I have proof!
Put proof in the car.
- But - but Dad - - You--
- But - - Put proof in the car!
I will eat barbecue
Your butt is in molasses!
- I won't try to give a message
for people out there - Yes.
- I can do two things and I think I did it very well.
Action, I know I did it well,
and my comedy isn't too bad, All right?
- So you do three things. - What is that?
- You just sit there and look Good, that's the third.
- Oh, you're sweet, from now,
You can say what you want.
- Let's play the tag Tag, you! [laughs]
[agile music]
- Tag?
- I am 11 years old when I saw my first film.
- What is that? - It's called, uh,
"Pop Goes the Weasel," and I mean,
this goes back, okay
For me, I'm amazed.
[dinging]
Now, I relate today to what I thought, okay?
And I said, "Hell, that's it I want to see,"
and I'm sure that people want to see today
[funny music]
[deep breath]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
- I will never win an Academy Award,
but I will be very rich, so--
and I think I put out, uh, entertaining films,
and I think that's what is all about
- What happened, Dad?
- Good thing and I realize it this is gold,
and none of us want to touch it.
- I have never had a view with Burt Reynolds.
I have to sit and write it.
That's the scene in the lunch room
Just turn off
for that Pak Bandit!
[country music played]
Let me have a diablo sandwich,
Dr. Pepper, and make it fast.
I'm in [...] damn hastily.
- In the original script, There might be
six or seven scenes where they are both
we are together.
We shot the scene in the restaurant
where Burt knows who Jackie is,
Jackie doesn't know who is Burt - You must be in hell a Quick, yes, Sheriff?
- Bet your ass on that, kid.
- Oh, you have a little mess _ there - Hmm? - Let me--
let me help you here.
Get it from there. That--
- Yeah. Thank you very much.
- When we finish the scene,
Burt came to Hal and me,
said "I won't work with Jackie again."
- Someone chasing you? - Nobody's chasing me, son.
I've been chasing a [...] damn maniac!
♪ ♪
- And, of course, I don't know what is about,
but we started rewriting.
♪ ♪
Does Burt feel that Jackie?
upstaging him Stealing from him?
I - You know, I really don't know.
- Do you feel that you are entering competition to Burt Reynolds?
- Oh no, no, no He plays comedy.
I lead in this matter. - Let me pay for it
Let me pay for it. - Oh no.
- No, no, you are a legal officer.
I 'd - I will be respected. - Well, many are obligatory.
Where is the tin? I have to spray it.
- Oh, back there I just left, so -
- I think it's Burt
a great comedian
He will see you and say something,
and then he gives you his attitude
that he said, "Who, me?"
And that's good, uh, quality
for someone who wants to do comedy
I'm sure he can be like that a great comedian
♪ ♪
[optimistic music]
- Every time you make a movie, this is a battle
Things, he always has a plan.
He is always willing to take the opportunity
to do something special and different.
- Oh.
- Well, I -
- Alan multiplies Burt.
Looks like Burt when he was there ride in a car.
And Janet Brady saw exactly like Sally,
and continue to duplicate itself
He can do a fight, he can make a fall,
But his expertise is a car, there is no question about that
[tire squealing]
He and Alan Gibbs meet.
They decide to get married.
[laughs]
And they are married during filming
from "Smokey and the Bandit."
And Hal gave Janet away
as - as "Father" of the bride
- Is that really there? almost accident
shoot the scene where the car is
crashing soccer field?
- Oh Boy. It must be like that.
[roaring machine]
- Ah!
[somber music]
♪ ♪
We get a shot that is not in the movie
because they are so creepy.
♪ ♪
- When the car jumps, and I see everyone
starting to run out of dugout,
I see just one person stand up straight
and the car just hit the break room.
♪ ♪
- Some children get hit.
Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured,
But, you know, there are
one or two children in a hospital.
♪ ♪
- When a car hits, two things occur: number one is,
I'm not aware that we have watered this night,
or that they have watered it.
And even though we use Pirelli tires
to try to compensate,
um, we can't stop
That's all there is for that.
And I just give thanks to God one of my stuntmen
has enough sense in him to--
and the second stunt girl--
to turn on the car and, uh,
get outside of these people
- I said, "We will hurt someone who is bad
I - I want this to stop now."
You know, you can do anything in the world
in the movie, but you can't stop.
- An absolute decision is mine,
Because, I mean, I'm the boss in that,
therefore my tuchus is on the phone,
and no one can tell me how I want to take that risk
- Do you do real driving? on "Smokey and the Bandit"?
- I do all the driving except jumps over the bridge
Uh, I was under a tree then, hid my face
[laughter]
- When people go to the movies,
they get - they are fun with characters,
main character and all.
They don't think about stuntman,
and I guess it shouldn't.
But when an actor is confronted
on national television or something,
It seems like I should have enough huevos
to say, "No, I didn't do that."
- Most actors can't do their own things
Actors continue Johnny Carson-- "Oh yes.
I do all my own actions," and we - we don't care
We don't want any recognition.
It's all about working, and making money,
and go to the next show and the next deal
- Good stunt community from robes and daggers.
I mean, there is no publicity. No, nothing.
People don't know What an acrobat.
- Ironically, it's Hal
who let the cat out of the bag
[clattering]
- Hi, David. How are you? - Nice to stay here, Hal.
- Thank you very much. - Are you okay?
- Oh, I'm fine
- Nothing has a bigger shadow
from Burt Reynolds.
And my father really
more than ready to step out from behind it
- When Hal first met me, he said,
"This is the person who will make me a star
Let's ask this."
My job is to make Hal household name
And wow, how do you do it?
- Next, you will see Hal Needham.
Things that are charged caftans have tent lines.
- I'm not crazy about it
- Oh, I think that looks great to him, though.
There is a hood so you can close everything in it
- I think he realized that
acting is not his expertise,
But for sure, those stunts.
- Good weather for flying.
But Hal Needham doesn't have a plane
What he has is a truck.
Distance between ramps
comparable to a 12-storey building
is placed by his side.
How are you doing, Hal?
- Well, I will stay a rocket in the back end,
and jump to the river.
- I spend all day, every day, looking for a way
to get Things in front of anyone You can, anytime.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- For me, I remember that Because I broke my back.
For the second time.
- I can remember it broken his back
and ribs and get out of hospital
and board an airplane and go down
to do another film
- He is the first human to test airbags
You know, when no one knows anything
about airbags, there is a thing.
- When I first start going out to pitch Hal,
That is not an easy task.
I'm aware of where I should go
tell people, "Well, Hal Needham
Stuntman Burt Reynolds. "
Now, we pay attention to them.
- He used to like doing it Stunts himself too. - Unfortunately, when we start several interviews,
they are always silent Back to Burt. take from me
Uh, and for example, um, He takes my wardrobe, okay?
He has copied my wardrobe
that I wear normally, all the time,
and, uh, and rightly so he was wearing it on film.
One day, he came out, he and I dressed up
exactly the same
- We do a lot of work,
because we know that
comes every time
And then, he goes talking about stunts
- Presents... [drum roll]
Stuntman.
- And he's not just your base,
everyday stuntman, good.
He was modeled after Hal Needham,
the man I consider good
best stuntman in business
- He once met the man who owned a toy company.
They say, "You know, Doll Evel Knievel
It was sitting at his desk days when I entered
I said," Oh, my God, Hal, you have a doll
Small stunt dolls Give me a break! "
There is a little ram, and you can fly -
the doll, and it will change.
You can, uh, make a hat fly with a rope
- It has been designed = but they don't have a market for that yet.
We realize that we will need a big event
Things and Bill Fredricks appear with the idea
of rocket cars
- Three two one...
ignition!
[roaring machine]
- Wow, it looks like he's in a This is good, Ken.
- Thunderous sendoff to Hal Needham!
Climbing up to 400... to 500...
almost 550 miles per hour and still climbing.
- It's faster than programmed , Ken.
- the parachute has just come out - the parachute is deployed,
but not yet opened - Ken, it hasn't been opened
He may be very serious the problem there
- He missed the red flag he had
falls at the end of course.
- I want to tell you something.
The last few hundred meters are gun children!
- Hal said, "I didn't go to put my life
behind 700 miles of car hours much longer."
Moments later car rocket event
finally the toy appears.
It was never really made a place on the market.
He knows he will never do it become a movie star
So things under extraordinary pressure
makes "Smokey and the Bandit" successful
[70 rock music]
♪ ♪
- There are scenes in the image where
it's a small dirt road-- bridge.
The car jumps over the bridge, flies through the air,
and land on the other side.
- That's very dangerous Nothing - it's a problem, do you know?
You know, you come short, You have a problem here.
[tire squealing]
- Sorry, I don't want to get married.
- great Which makes us both.
- Sally and Burt become items with that--
shooting day
- Rolling - oh, wait One minute. Let's begin.
- We see daily, and you can see it.
It's there.
When two people hit it
and you can know they like each other.
Sometimes, they call it "Action," and there are
things that happened first.
- ♪ Contact You Bandit ♪
♪ ♪
♪ They call you Bandit ♪
- I think Bandit covers its vulnerability
and sensitivity
with a lot of braggadocio,
and fancy shirts,
because I think, basically, he is a bit shy
He is only good at one thing,
and it's showing off.
But he is great at that.
I don't wear this type of shirt I wear a cowboy hat.
I think - I'm not really positive about this,
because there is a big debate happens -
about this in America.
I think I'm a great actor.
[fighting]
- Burt Reynolds has top box office
for six years, mostly in Redneck tough guy films.
Now, he wants to try serious drama
If you want to escape from the image of a good boy,
Will the audience let you?
- if I'm good If I'm really good.
♪ And nothing hides ♪
♪ Facts that I feel ♪
♪ Bored, bored, bored ♪
- I found Burt Reynolds the most perplexing actor
He has strength and physical attributes
from a tough screen man who is perfect, but he insists
when playing light comedy, as if he saw himself
as a kind of Cary Grant with muscle.
The point seems to escape him, however,
is that you cannot become Cary Grant and have muscle.
You must be satisfied for one or the other.
- He can act, but apparently not take a very good part Which one does not take part Stretch him and test it.
He might be a great like Sean Connery
if he is easier as he sees.
You can always feel it that he wants to look good,
and this is fatal in male actors.
- Maybe he started bad advice, Pauline
- Or maybe there is fear in him.
- Burt, when you look in the mirror, what do you see?
Who do you see
- You see very paid movie stars.
And starving actors.
Actor.
Being a personality is painful.
Being in the public eye is - painful
Because you will never be able to give them They always want a little more.
[laughter]
- Are you really back along with Dinah Shore?
- Do you plan to make any film on location in Chicago?
- Do you want to go for coffee after the show?
- You say it's your favorite Sports are soccer
What affects you? do "The Longest Yard"?
- Really? trying to adopt children
and you plan to marry again?
- Burt, really you enjoy all this
- Burt fell ill there,
and he is struggling to come to the set.
You talk about changing schedule
I mean, Sally can't work without Burt
Because it's in the car.
- He disappeared for a few days, yeah
But I don't want to enter which, uh,
the reason
- Understood Burt is an actor.
Being an actor, that's what is high and neurotic.
Now, all actors are crazy, right?
I mean, Marlon Brando left acting
Because he can't take it again
You must understand,
Their faces are on This 100 feet high screen.
- You know who it is
- if they are embarrassed with what they see,
they want to kill themselves
So, the pressure on an actor,
in his ego, is very extraordinary
[siren]
- We won't succeed, son! We will hang it.
- Whoa, negatory, negatory, Are you,
crazy or something
We got this far, right?
Look, when we say it we will do work,
we do work!
- And Hal came and said, "I gave up.
Do you do this?"
- There is one thing about both ol 'Southern boys,
all the way through.
They have a sense of loyalty to their friends
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I feel like, if anything, I am indebted to Hal.
♪ ♪
You must be dangerous
as part of being sexy.
♪ ♪
Now it's too late.
"Let's jump this bridge."
♪ ♪
- We jumped over the bridge! We do that!
Do you see what we do? - Yes I did.
- I want to jump something else! I want to jump home!
I want to jump something!
- We just made a car jump.
The director's assistant shouted, "That's it.
That's the package."
That is the last - the end of the film
Needham, I and I look up the top of Trans Am
each other.
He just gave me a wry smile and looked at me,
You know, and we only nod each other and that's all.
- You're crazy!
- The type of our moment.
You realize that it exists,
and it will be around a lot longer than you.
- Universal presents...
This is "Smokey and Bandit."
- General sales manager at Universal,
After seeing the film, by the way,
Um, I don't think I have many beliefs in the picture.
He asks us not the preliminary show of the film.
I think he is actually suspected
that he will go lose the order
Because the picture is very bad.
[banjo music]
- Hell...
Do you know?
They say...
[orchestra orchestra orchestra]
♪ ♪
And I said, "Take it out!"
♪ ♪
- You do comedy, it doesn't work
[choking]
Off.
And only fools do it
think that's a sure thing.
- I think that is a very funny film
And then - you know, we think - we have big hopes,
they open movies at Radio City Music Hall,
and then we - and die.
- I said, "Wait a minute.
" Do you open it in - in New York?
That's ridiculous. "
- That is a disaster screening, I mean...
That card, you know,
" It's boring. See this before. "
I think, you know, what I do
to get these people to get it. in the South. "
That's what was made for that.
- [shouting]
- ♪ Well, hello there, neighbors ♪
♪ Now, how do you do ♪
♪ There is something I want to say to you ♪
♪ You are from my homeland ♪ [dogs barking]
♪ My bright land, tell me friends ♪
♪ Now it can be ♪
- how many of you have seen Photo thing,
"Smokey and the Bandit"?
[applause]
- I like it. I like it.
- I'm sure I've seen the film 200 times.
And that might be plus or minus five.
- ♪ Yes, that's a view from Louisiana, Mississippi ♪
♪ Alabama, West Virginia, Tennessee, Carolina ♪
♪ There are only a few places below Mason-Dixon lines ♪
♪ Then you are on Dixie ♪
♪ Hurray, hurray for Dixie ♪
♪ Because of this old boy, he's also from Dixie ♪
♪ Stand back, boy ♪
- The small number is the second highest grossing
films in the history of from the film business.
- I'm happy because, because is an image
it was not made for critics
It was made for the people.
- How do you like the movie?
- Oh, I just love it. - Oh, that's very exciting.
- Who is your favorite in the movie?
- Burt [laughs]
Of course. That dog is also good.
- We all live in that matter part of the country
go, "Yup, that's all how it works", or
"he reminded me of my uncle,"
or "he reminds me of my father," or "he reminds me
of my neighbors on the road."
- You know, in the South, they think
"Smokey and Bandit" as documentary
It has a cultural impact
that I don't think of all of us Can be imagined.
I mean, to this day,
it's a friendly South
than maybe many people have been seen before
And maybe, in that case, there is elegance.
- The buzz is very big. I mean, it's very big!
♪ ♪
- You know, in days silent films,
Chasing is often the highlight of from the story
So, Hollywood thinks, then the audience is like a little,
they will be very loving, and soon,
no food at all, that is all dessert
- This is not a B movie. This is an A plus plus.
He makes us all alive and gives us reason
to say, "Hey, we still have A hero out there."
- When I say "Burt Reynolds," right now.
Black cowboy hat Mustache?
Is that what you see? That's what I see.
I also see it in Trans Am.
If he is driving in Lexus, it will only destroy me - Critics of "Washington Post"
In the opinion of that person,
I mean, the photo is Things are increasing,
and Hal is no longer a stuntman
♪ ♪
- So, my father decided it was time
to move from Burt Reynolds' house.
You married, you settled down , and then, uh,
[soft music]
- I always want to have a theater,
all my life, uh, since I started to become an actor
- How are you doing tonight?
If you will follow Bruce, he will take you to your seat.
- Good night. How are you tonight?
[applause]
it is unfair stardust and moonbeams.
This is a lot of hard work and pain.
Get out of here! Mark it
- Burt Reynolds is a hungry person
that he is more than just an illusion
that he is - what he presents.
- Do you want to be taken? more serious
Or will you continue to do it? this stunting show?
"For what they are. They don't try
" to be something else rather than what they are.
But for what they are, They are great. "
- But are you still shooting a" Casablanca "in your career?
- Yeah, I shot for a "Casablanca."
And you know what I'm going to do when I'm get my "Casablanca"
I will be back soon and make a "Smokey and the Bandit."
[applause]
- Burt, co-author and director
from "Smokey and the Bandit," your friend Hal Needham
[elegant music]
- First of all, let me say it I'm sure nobody expects me
to play guitar or sing ' You know better than that.
I only have one talent given by God,
and it falls in my head.
And I'm grateful for that, because that allows me
to meet Burt Reynolds some 20-some-odd years ago.
- I always say to him, "If you want to be a woman,
we definitely already have a big marriage."
He is an extraordinary man.
They don't participate like that but once in your life
- You are a doll, I love you,
and I owe everything to you, Burt
Thank you.
[relaxed country music]
♪ ♪
- I just want to make a wish.
[shouts]
♪ ♪
- Certain people appear in your life,
and the miracle happened, and that doesn't always happen,
but when miracles occur... [applause].
♪ ♪
- Do you know something?
You see The luckiest person lives.
- So we talk, and I say, "Hal,
" can you believe your success?
"From farmer children in Arkansas,
you do 'Smokey and the Bandit'?" "Yeah," he said. "It's going well, man."
- People don't think too much from me
or what I will admit.
But surely -
of course--
my mother...
Look down tonight...
with a big smile on his face.
[clears throat]
[applause]
I want to say thank you Hollywood Community
to allow me to be a part of it.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it
♪ ♪
- When I hear that he is passing,
I think, "What is in the name of God?
" can kill it?
What can kill him? "
- She's the only guy I think I can live forever
[tire squealing]
- He likes speed.
He likes to bend the rules a little.
He likes to live life in his own way.
Hal Needham is, and always will,
bandits