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See son. Old legends never die, They just lose weight like a legend

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and an outward bum of a lotter
like Daddy bend it. He and my

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son are here. Oh, I
love your suits. They must be at

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Nasai sixty eight extra fat and a
twelve dwarf. I came to make a

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deal once he get if he wins
this truck rodale thing. Yeah, five

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thousand dollars, daddy chicken money.
This is what the hell you want to

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know him? You to get out
of this dumb ass rodeo and accept a

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real challenge. I'll get in the
Texas canna and back in twenty eight hours.

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That's no problem. It ain't never
been done before. HI want your

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language of the lady. The problem
is said Coors beer. You take that

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east to Texas and that's that's food
legging. I believe you're just a little

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bit scared. That's great psychology.
Why don't you just say something bad about

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my mother? You? Mamma is
so Look, you make this run for

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me now. These Peterbilts here are
worth eighty thousand dollars. That comes to

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about three grand an hour if you
make it twenty eight hours. How bout

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that for a challenge. You were
dead. I don't believe that. That's

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and li Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, why do you want that

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beer so bad? Because he's thirsty? Dummy? See, I got a

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boy running tomorrow in the Southern Classic, and when he wins, I want

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to celebrate and style. I'm my
style. Well, I got a few

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friends and me four hundred cases.
Well, well, let me see your

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cash. Big Enus's word is gold, all right, showing the cash.

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Go ahead, Well let's see this, four hundred cases of fear. I

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need to cast for that, No
problem. Go ahead, boy, new

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car. I gotta have a new
car to block for the truck, you

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know? Okay? Go ahead?
Boy? Like to kick kids? Mask?

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Just what speedy car? Speedier than
that? Go ahead. Stump Men

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have long been the unsung heroes of
action films. They do the risky moves

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in dangerous jumps your favorite actor or
actresses might not be keen to do well.

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There are some exceptions. They often
perform in anonymity. One of those

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exceptions is legendary stuntman Hal Need Them
And this week is this famed stuntman's first

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foray into directing, released in nineteen
seventy seven, Smokey in the Bandit introduces

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us to bow Bandit Darvel played by
Burt Reynolds. Bandit is hired by well

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to do Texans big Enus in his
son Little Nus to transport illegally four hundred

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cases of Coor's beer. This was
our introductory clip from Texarkana, Texas to

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Atlanta, Georgia with his partner Cleatus
Snowman Snow played by Jerry Reid, who

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also performed the theme song to this
film. Along the way, they encounter

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runaway bride Carrie played by Sally Field, who is running away from marrying the

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son of Sheriff Buford t Justice,
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It is quite remarkable that this film
became so beloved despite being done by

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a first time director. In our
next clip, how Needam explains how he

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decided to direct this film, and
then Burt Reynolds tells us about the scariest

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moment he performed. Most of his
own stunts in this film he encountered while

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making this movie. First of all, I directed a lot of second unit,

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so I knew camera angles and things. See the good thing about a

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stuntman being a second unit director,
you know what angles make things look quicker,

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faster, and so on and so
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slow down low, running right by
his fast and so on and so forth.

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So I knew the angles, I
knew the cameras and so on and

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so forth. I had a good
camera and so really there was nothing to

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be scared of. I mean what
I told everybody, and when I started

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got the job, I said,
I'm not going to throw away my stunt

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bag where you carry your pads and
things I say in cases don't work,

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I'll go back doing stunts. But
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As a matter of fact, when
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a little big man, I had
a scene where a customed cavalry is going

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across the canyon floor and they're playing
the Garry Owen's song, whatever of the

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cavalry song, and Dustin Hoffman is
on this rock about ready to commit suicide,

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and he, the director sent Dusty
itper. So the first second unit

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I ever did, I got one
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up there telling him how to active. This is kind of ridiculous. So

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I wasn't worried about smoky. The
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about it. But the only thing
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I had all the coverage that I
needed because I'm not I wasn't accustomed going

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and getting a two shot or a
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So I had to think about that
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no combs about going to Nurn.
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I'll never forget. There was a
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She was the sweetheart of one of
the stunt guys and she was very

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capable of you know, you could
throw her off a building and to fight

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stuff with her, and she was
very handy, but hand on the cars

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that's a whole other thing. And
she got in the car and if you

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watch the movie, it's petrified when
you think about it. And then we

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go over the wall and we land
in a little league baseball game and every

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kid's mother was there, of course
some of them's fathers, and the old

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grandstand was full of people. She's
driving and she just panicked. I never

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seen it. I never seen this
happen before. We've stunt people but see't

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happen with acts. So you're in
the I'm riding with her, so we

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could get a camera up close on
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wouldn't know it wasn't Sally. Sally
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I mean, we were full out
flying right, and I saw kids

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in front of the car disappear,
and I was waiting for that, and

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then went we went right over'em
and it were just falling, and mother's

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two mothers fainted and I don't blame'em. And then we went through it

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all. We got out the other
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up like a half wall at the
head of it. And the girl was,

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you know, she was. I
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She was. She was beating herself
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her out of the car and I
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I ran back and I spent the
afternoon with mothers, you know, apologizing,

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and we all went to dinner.
And you know, again, that's

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that's those Georgia people. They just
said, well, it all came out

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all right, and the kids said, can we do that again? You

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know, kids are kids just loved
it, and we ducked down the car

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went right over. I mean,
if you think about it, that would

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have been the in the Black career
for sure. I mean hurt. It

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was. You can't you can't do
things like that, I mean, and

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we should have had some kind of
control. But we were just supposed to

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jump over. Kids have the game. Here, we go around the game

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and go through the wall. We
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And it wasn't supposed to be that
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a beloved character in my estimation,
is the fact that Burt Reynolds didn't even

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have to try for this performance.
He is naturally one of those epitome of

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cool performers. There are very few
actors that are just naturally cool. Steve

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McQueen, James Dean, and of
course Marlon Brandell come to mind. While

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the acting ability can ultimately be argued, what cannot is the qualities Reynolds carries

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into this film. He is charming, smooth, and calm in any situation.

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Our next two clips are examples of
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use his charm and wit to get
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And then when bandit It first encounters
Carrie in a wedding gown on the side

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of the road. His charm goes
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Chris, No, I know in
the past I may have done you

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wrong, right right, However,
I mean in the future greatest, I

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will never ever do you wrong again? Right right? We have a big

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chance, a big chance to make
a run for some big bucks, eighty

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thousand of them. Oh really,
what are we gonna do, kidnapter Pope

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with something? How'd you guess?
No, We're just gonna run over to

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Texas Canna and pick up four hundred
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back in twenty eight hours. Ooh, I got plans for you. That's

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called bootlegging, and that's against the
law. Who gives a turkey when the

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Snowman and the Bandit are run in
the booze, no otan can stop it?

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How old it? Right there?
They ain't gonna be no more Snowman

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and Bandit. You stay and ain't
Why? Well it goes. I've got

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to go in the morning to Knys. I pick up a minor to ask

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your question, ask me what the
hell we wanted to go to Texas?

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Far and hall beer back here?
What is that? For the good old

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American life? For the money,
for the glory, and for the fun.

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Mostly for the money. Now,
you know what we're gonna do when

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we get the money, Well,
we're gonna buy a new rig. You're

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crazy, you know that? Yeah? You know that? Yes? How

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much? Mon? Does you say? It was? Eighty? Followed them

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dollars? Eighty thousand dollars? And
now bandit meets Carrie? Where are we

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going? No, don't tell me. Let me guess we are a bride

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in search of a wedding. No, there is a wedding in search of

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a bride. Let me put it
a lot of way. Think of it

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as a wedding posse in search of
a bride. Do you understand that?

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Cowboy? Yeah? What are you
doing? These are my shoes? Oh

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yeah, and these are my legs? Yeah? What are you gonna do

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with them? With the shoes?
For the legs? Last time I saw

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legs like that, they had a
messy started doing. What do you mean?

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These are great little legs? I'm
a professional. Oh that case.

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You shouldn't be dressed in white dancer? Oh oh, cowboys? Look fat

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cats? They're not fat you're a
bigger than mine. Do we really want

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to talk about legs up? Otherwise? What are we doing now? Well?

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I am getting my clothes, you
fool. That's a good idea.

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Why don't you slip into something comfortable? Are we really going? One hundred

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and ten? Following one hundred and
ten? What do you wear that cowboy

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hat? I know because you think
it looks dazzling on you? You have

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no idea? What I bought this
wedding Christmas? What would an action comedy

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film be without a villain? This
film portrays some members of law enforcement as

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the villain, but the chief villain
is one Buford t Justice, played by

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comedy legend Jackie Gleeson. Justice wields
his power with an iron fist, but

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he is bumbling and comedically incompetent.
This is evident in our final clip when

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Justice is at a roadside diner.
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Here the difference between Bandit and Justice. Bandit is calm and cool,

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Injustice is exasperated in rushing to catch
the prey that is right in front.

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I'm gonna tell you, man,
dollar and a half, Yeah, you've

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changed. Let me have a dia
blow sign doctor back by making fast.

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I'm in a murray you are day
ain't got no time for dad loan dog

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stocking my fla. You must be
in a hell of a hurry. I

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sure bet your last on that.
Boy. Oh yeah, mess there.

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Let me let me help you out
here. Get that off there. That's

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a way an off merchy line.
Who are you chasing? Somebody teaching you?

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Nobody teaching me? Boy ippa,
chase my mania all the way from

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that. I cannot teach you.
Ay, I see a bank robber the

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bottom all right, bank problem is
baby kidding along side of what this dude

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is doing. Almost killed funny law. I see dripping for people's backyard,

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knocking down mailboxer, got a broad
in the car, took across the state

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line, got the man out.
I don't think you got a permission and

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that's good nothing. How's that behind? Jus? What? Oh? Let

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me pay for it? Let me
pay no, no, no, you're

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an officer of the law. I'll
be honest. Might you apply it?

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Where's it? Can? I gotta
take the squirk right back there? Just

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wonder what hey, no, my
god, you're going wrong head on?

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What the are you doing justice in
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Upon release Smoky in the bandit became
an unexpected hit despite a poor premiere in

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New York. It then debuted in
Southern States over Memorial Day weekend, engross

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nearly three million dollars. A month
later, it had a nationwide release and

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overall grossed over one hundred and twenty
six million dollars, making it the second

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highest grossing film of nineteen seventy seven, after a little space opera you may

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have heard of called Star Wars.
The film has had two sequels, only

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one of them featuring Reynolds. Alfred
Hitchcock has called it one of his favorite

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films. While the language is a
little terse for a PG film and some

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of the joke fall outside of the
politically correct spectrum in today's society, this

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film is landmark and its use of
car chases and performances. It's a simpler

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film for a simpler time that has
stood the test of time. I hope

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you join me next week when we
look at Steven Spielberg's powerful and heart wrenching

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film Schindler's List for W M N
H. In Matt Connerton Unleashed. This

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has been a classic film review with
Eric Pilcher's Are we going to do what

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they say can't do? We've got
a and a short time to get there.

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Keep getting on the bild break let
we got a run the paper,

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the Atlantic and the US here in
Texas County, and we'll bring it back

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no matter what its He's found it. Goad up man, chuck it.

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We're going to do what they say
can't be done. We've got a long

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way to go, and it's short
time to get there. Time he's found

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Just quadro man it runs, he's
founded. Go ahead, up man trucking.

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Are we going to do what they
say can't be done? We got

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a long way to go and a
short time to get there. I'm he's

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found up. Watch our mand it
run, old spoke. He's got their

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ears on. He's out on your
trail. He ain't gonna rest of you

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in jail. So you've got the
dodge. If you've got the ducking,

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you gotta keep that diesel trucking.
Just put that tamer down and give it

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him. He's founded. Die Go
ahead, up man trucking. Are we

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going to do what they say can't
be done? We got a long way

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to go and a short time to
get there. I'm he's found up.

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Watch our mand It run