The most famous movie starring Burt Reynolds as a southern dude driving around to avoid the law is 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit". Two years earlier he starred in the similar "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings", and this time there's a lot of singing to accompany the lawbreaking. Reynolds plays a small-time crook who joins up with a country music group. His bank robberies incur the CEO's wrath, and a lawman comes after him and the band.
The movie - directed by "Rocky"'s John G. Avildsen - shouldn't get seen as anything highbrow. It's an excuse to have a lot of fun. I suspect that they had a lot of fun making it. There needs to be a festival emphasizing chase-themed movies. It would show this one, "Smokey and the Bandit", "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" and some others. Although this movie isn't available on any home viewing format, it's available on YouTube (has the 21st century made us lazy or what?).
Really fun.
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