“Smokey and the Bandit” became a huge hit when it hit theaters in 1977, but Burt Reynolds revealed that things could have been completely different without his leading lady Sally Fields.

On May 19, 1977, Universal premiered Burt Reynolds’ Smokey and the Bandit at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the action comedy is below.

I cannot envision the world where a movie like Smokey And The Bandit—an action-comedy about a famed local driver and his trucker friend tasked with retrieving 400 cases of outlawed Coors beer in ...

Smokey and the Bandit was the second biggest hit of 1977, after Star Wars, and not by much.Almost as many people flocked to the space opera about rebels taking on an evil galactic empire as they ...

When the 1977 hit movie "Smokey and the Bandit” earned $127 million at the North American box office, making it the second-highest grossing movie of 1977 ("Star Wars" coming in at No. 1, of ...

They started talking about taking the same Texas-to-Georgia trip that made “Smokey and the Bandit” the second top-grossing movie of 1977, after “Star Wars.” The weeklong cruise typically ...

L aunched on the big screen in 1977, Smokey and the Bandit revolves around two bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. The film was a ...

Three action/comedy road films in the "Smokey and the Bandit" series were put out in 1977, 1980 and 1983, with the first two being among the nation's top 10-selling movies of those years.

Mort Engelberg, who was a producer on films including Smokey and the Bandit and The Big Easy before transitioning into politics as an "advance man" for Bill Clinton, died.