This is what gave Needham the idea to create a movie about bootlegging Coors beer.
To their dismay, the hotel maids would steal the beer while they were away. Word is, Needham and Reynolds liked to drink Coors beer and kept some in their hotel room. At the time, Needham was Burt’s stunt double in the movie. Hal Needham, the creator and director of Smokey and the Bandit got the idea for the movie while filming Gator with Burt Reynolds in Georgia. In fact, Jonesboro, Georgia was used to recreate the city of Texarkana. The movie was filmed mostly in and around the Atlanta, Georgia area. The Bandit and the Snowman actually didn’t drive to Texarkana, Texas to pick the load of Coors beer. Reynolds was told by GM that the president that made that promise passed away and that the current president would not maintain the agreement.īen Jones (Cooter), Sonny Shroyer (Enos), and John Schneider (Bo) from The Dukes of Hazzard were used as uncredited extras in the movie. When he did not receive one, he inquired with General Motors to find out what happened. He was known to watch it again and again.ĭue to the success of the movie, Burt Reynolds was promised a new Trans Am every year by the president of General Motors. Smokey and the Bandit was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie. This is the same style rocket Evel Knievel used during his attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon. The truck was loaded on a low-boy flatbed trailer and towed around by another 18-wheeler.įred, the Snowman’s Basset Hound, was picked by Burt Reynolds because he did not obey commands very well.Ī booster rocket was placed on the Trans Am to help it make the jump over the bridge. The 1955 Chevrolet Custom that was used in Two Lane Blacktop and American Graffiti was actually used for the Trans Am’s sound effects in the movie.įor many of his driving scenes, Jerry Reed wasn’t actually driving the big rig. If you think the Bandit’s Pontiac Trans Am doesn’t sound like…well…a Trans Am, you’re not mistaken. While on the set, when he wanted a drink, he would tell his assistant to get him a “hamburger”. Over time, he and Monte Colburn have had a fractious relationship, but the crab dancing veteran always remembers his roots.Jackie Gleason was known for his love of scotch. Freddy has a long Deadliest Catch historyįreddy has served as a deckhand on several boats.
Mind you, it is snowing, and the water is just a notch above freezing. Then out of nowhere, Freddy Maugatai strips down to his trunks and jumps in the Bering sea. The crew gets ready to fish it out of the water as the 3000-pound tree can seriously damage any vessel.
Well, it wants to be a dead Nessie.” Then the Russian theory emergesĬontinuing the fun, Hillstrand says: “The Russians sent it over as a spy don’t worry about me. Laughing at this point, Johnathan says: “Whoa, what is that? Does somebody want to tell me what the bleep is this coming up? A whale, maybe? Something big out there, it’s like a dead killer. Then, they joke that the Russians sent it. At first, a dead whale is suspected.Īs Johnathan gets closer, his crew tells him it is a tree. The race really is on as the quotas need to be met as Captain Sig Hansen notes that “we could lose everything” if the crab totals fall short.īut in the meantime, the Time Bandit spots a large dark mass floating the waves. This week on Deadliest Catch, we have the Time Bandit, helmed by Johnathan Hillstrand, and the Cornelia Marie lead by Casey McManus in a race to the Peter Pan cannery. Time Bandit’s Freddy Maugatai and the Unidentified Floater Until Freddy dives in the water to loop some rope around it, you won’t believe what is floating out there in the open water.Īnd by the way, the water is so cold that if Freddy had stayed out there with no wetsuit much longer, he was likely to succumb to hypothermia.
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TV Shows Ace has the exclusive preview clip below where Captain Johnathan Hillstrand is shown checking out the large mass spotted out in the water, and the bets are off on what it can be. On Deadliest Catch, 27 days into the fall season, the Time Bandit runs into an unidentified floating object, aka a UFO, out in the Bering Sea. Time Bandit deckhand Freddy Maugatai is seemingly fearless when it comes to the elements.
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