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A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race. (Learn more)

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett (View All)

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Jackie Chan and Tara Buckman in The Cannonball Run. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
About The Cannonball Run

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett

Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Connecticut to California. Reynolds stars as J.J. McClure, a speed-loving racer disguised as an ambulance driver to outsmart the police. He is paired up with Dom Deluise, who plays his dimwitted sidekick Victor and who, on occasion, dons the suit of Captain Chaos. Rat Packers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. join the lineup as Ferrari-driving priests, while martial arts expert Jackie Chan takes on one of his first U.S. film roles driving a souped-up Subaru. Among the many other stars are Roger Moore doing a parody of his 007 character, complete with secret devices and weapons, Farrah Fawcett as Pamela, a woman McClure and Chaos pick up, and Jamie Farr as a deranged Islamic sheik. Jack Elam joins the cast as a crazed proctologist along for McClure's ambulance ride, and Needham makes a cameo as a patient. ~ Rachel Koetje, All Movie Guide

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Quick Facts

US Release Date

6/19/81

MPAA Rating

Rated PG

Running Time

95 mins.

Locations

  • Connecticut, USA

Language

  • English

Distributor

  • 20th Century Fox Distribution
  • Vestron Video