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 Cannonball Run -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cannonball Run was a campy, screwball comedy released in 1981 that starred (Click link for more info and facts about Burt Reynolds) Burt Reynolds, (Click link for more info and facts about Dom DeLuise) Dom DeLuise and (Click link for more info and facts about Farrah Fawcett) Farrah Fawcett.
A "cult classic" today and fairly well-received by the public (but savaged by critics), Cannonball Run sparked a sequel, (Click link for more info and facts about Cannonball Run 2) Cannonball Run 2 which reprised most of the original cast.
Jackie Chan (who admitted he did Cannonball Run II to fulfill his contract with (Click link for more info and facts about Warner Brothers) Warner Brothers) says it was this film that inspired him to do the same at the end of most of his movies.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cannonball_run.htm   (926 words)

  
 Cannonball Run (movie) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cannonball Run was a campy, screwball comedy movie released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett.
The premise is very similar to the earlier Cannonball and The Gumball Rally (both 1976).
Jackie Chan (who admitted he did Cannonball Run II to fulfill his contract with Warner Brothers) says it was this film that inspired him to do the same at the end of most of his movies.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/The_Cannonball_Run   (770 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Cannonball Run II
Encyclopedia: Cannonball Run II Updated 260 days 4 hours 17 minutes ago.
Cannonball Run II is a film that was released in 1984.
Like the original Cannonball Run, this film is a comedy set around an illegal cross-country race.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cannonball-Run-II   (157 words)

  
 IGN: Classic DVD Check: Cannonball Run
Cannonball Run is chock-full of bitchin' rides and real auto stunts that didn't require the help of any lame CGI.
Cannonball Run also treats viewers with hot women, driving under the influence and James Bond himself, Roger Moore.
Besides, the Countash in Cannonball Run was driven by women in skin-tight cat suits that liked to show off their boobs.
cars.ign.com /articles/635/635169p1.html   (844 words)

  
 CANNONBALL RUN EUROPE WHIPS UP A STORM AT PENDINE SANDS
Cannonball Run Europe, the legendary European road rally event is set to whip up a storm at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, West Wales on Saturday 17th July 2004, when 40 high performance vehicles will take to the sands to shoot scenes for the forthcoming Cannonball Run Europe feature film, Terminal Velocity.
The Cannonball Run Europe brings petrol heads and car enthusiasts together from across the UK and is described as the ultimate party on the move.
The entry fee for the Cannonball Run Europe 2004 event in September is £2,995 for one car and two people and includes all sea crossings, hotel accommodation at each destination, breakfast and all evening meals, VIP entrance to party nights at some of Europe's coolest clubs and much much more.
www.mgbbs.com /news/news914.html   (604 words)

  
 DVDFILE.COM: The Cannonball Run review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All of the other characters have their own plan to win The Cannonball, but to be honest the "plot" is all secondary to car chases and high speed laughs.
I'm glad I was wrong, as The Cannonball Run looks a good deal better than I was expecting, even rivaling some big studio releases from the same era.
The audio for Cannonball Run isn't going to blow your doors off, but it is nice to see HBO try to do something more with the title and I can at least say the result isn't distracting like some remixes can be.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_3/cannonballrun.html   (838 words)

  
 Cannonball Run Canada Bound - FerrariChat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
TORONTO, Jan. 11- More than 30 years after the Cannonball Run was first born, during which people and cars of all kinds took to American asphalt, one of the world's most infamous road rallies is coming to Canada.
The original Cannonball Run was born in 1971 when a group of motoring enthusiasts attempted to cross America in the fastest amount of time.
By the way, the real Cannonball Run is found at http://www.onelapofamerica.com/About/about.htm and is too serious for those Gumball-type pretenders.
www.ferrarichat.com /forum/showthread.php?t=44845   (1018 words)

  
 Cannonball Run II - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cannonball Run II - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Cannonball Run II (Redirected from Cannonball Run 2)
The article about Cannonball Run II contains information related to Cannonball Run II and External link.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cannonball_Run_2   (151 words)

  
 Cannonball Run 2 review (1984) - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
Granted, the original Cannonball Run isn't exactly a critical masterpiece, but for what it is, it does work well.
Normally, sequels take what was successful from the first film and give you much more, but Cannonball Run II mystifyingly strips away all of the good stuff, then injects some of the dumbest, most unfunny, and completely unnecessary side plots to fill up most of the running time.
The first problem with Cannonball Run II lies in the fact that Brock Yates, writer of the first film and one of the creators of the actual race, is out as screenwriter.
www.qwipster.net /cannonballrun2.htm   (608 words)

  
 DRIFTING.com - Cannonball Run?
Actually the Cannonball was called the Sea to shingin sea memorial trophy dash.
I know a bit about the Cannonball run, I just call it that rather than typing out the whole name.
Last time it was run (2-3 years ago) was a $1000 entry and $10,000 pot for 1st place.
www.drifting.com /forums/printthread.php?t=5278   (1250 words)

  
 The Cannonball Run
It's difficult to determine who phones in the worst acting performance in Cannonball Run: Farrah Fawcett who seems to be under the influence of bus fumes throughout; Burt Reynolds whose lack of self-awareness is almost frightening; Dom DeLuise who apparently didn't realize the camera was rolling in his scenes; Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr.
Cannonball Run Europe 2005: Notify Blogger about objectionable content.
Cannonball Run Europe 2005 7 Countries, 7 days, 3500 miles and a trackday somewhere in the middle.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /ItemId/B00004U28G   (1380 words)

  
 ScooterCannonball.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This Cannonball Run is a 3293 mile endurance Event.
The Cannonball Run starts September 10, 2006 at Pacific City, Oregon and ends in Bloomfield, New Jersey at Scooters Originali 7 days later.
You need to be able to maintain and repair all aspects of your own scooter as you may be doing this nightly during the event.
www.scootercannonball.com   (508 words)

  
 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Cannonball Run II (1984)
The Cannonball Run was a bad movie whose badness was, at times, kind of fun.
Cannonball Run II is just plain bad, period.
The humor is in much the same spirit as the first film -- it's a retread in every negative connotation of the term -- but rather than being the kind of cheesy fun the actors and the audience can have together, it's a forced exercise in which nobody has any fun at all.
a.rinkworks.com /movies/m/cannonball.run.ii.1984.shtml   (277 words)

  
 Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II Staring: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise
Our racers are back for a second cannonball run - the illegal race that takes place all over the country...
Unlike the first DVD for Cannonball run, this one has been totally ignored by Warner.
www.dvdvan.com /info/0790740737/Cannonball_Run_II.html   (707 words)

  
 Car and Driver - The Last Cannonball - November 2002
It was nearly midnight, and most of the crowd at the Barrel had come to witness the start of the fifth and, as it would turn out, final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash—2800 miles of madness across the country to the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California.
She was hot for 35 hours of red-eyed, raw-nerved, high-revving speed through the great flat middle of the United States.
Herb had run the car in the grueling 24-hour race at Daytona, where it had hung in for 19 hours, running the high banks of the speedway at more than 150 mph.
www.caranddriver.com /article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=2521&page_number=1   (675 words)

  
 NASIOC - Cannonball Run car   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Another note: Cannonball Run was Brock Yates' coast to coast race that is no longer run (that we know of).
So for this year the event was the "2004 TireRack Cannonball One Lap of America" presented by Car and Driver so the original concept of a "Cannonball" car is quite correct.
There was even a reference in the Chicago Tribune today to the known landspeed record from NY to LA accomplished during a Cannonball Run.
forums.nasioc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=558978   (686 words)

  
 Cannonball Run review (1981) - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
Cannonball Run was a childhood favorite of mine and is one of my all-time guiltiest pleasures.
It's also an inspired idea for a movie, based on an actual race which took place in the 70s (reportedly started by screenwriter Yates), and the plethora of colorful characters interacting with each other proves to be great fun.
Cannonball Run is a pure entertainment movie that does deliver the goods for all those who seek a few chuckles and goofy characters to follow.
www.qwipster.net /cannonballrun.htm   (359 words)

  
 Smokey and the Bandit II review / 2 (1980) - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
I'm not sure what it is about Hal Needham (Hooper) that he can make a couple of fun and entertaining films like The Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit, and yet completely lose his mind when trying to direct their follow-ups.
It's not just that it's awful, it's painfully embarrassing, and the first nail in the coffin of Burt Reynolds' (Cannonball Run II, Without a Paddle) career as an actor to be taken seriously.
The Bandit (Reynolds) is back, although at the nadir of his life, with a girlfriend that has dumped him, an attempt at a singing career that has fizzled before it began, and an alcohol problem that has rendered him virtually useless in his career in anti-authoritarian dirty work.
www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/223395   (729 words)

  
 :: Cannonball Run ::
The Cannonball Run Kid’s Marathon is a program designed to keep kids fit by running a marathon (26.2 miles) over a 2-3 month period.
Before October 8, participants run 25 miles and log their miles in their runner’s log.
On race day, October 8, these young athletes will run the last 1.2 miles—on a course that starts and finishes where the Cannonball Run Half Marathon starts and finishes.
www.cannonballrunrace.com /kids_marathon.htm   (185 words)

  
 Spanish Police Thwart Cannonball Run Road Rally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The managing director of Cannonball Run Europe, Tim Porter told Reuters on Tuesday that entrants in the rally of the same name had been fined by Spanish police, citing a law which the Spanish embassy later told his organization does not exist.
The Cannonball was real, I used to work for a guy who ran it.
One of his stories about the Run included the details that Dan insisted on Brock wearing one of those old fashioned change dispensers bus drivers used to use.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1217002/posts   (1284 words)

  
 Intelliflix: Rent Cannonball Run II on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thirty big-named stars, 300-horsepower horseplay and 3,000 breakneck miles: that's the revved-up sequel Cannonball Run II.
A real-life race inspired both The Cannonball run and this follow-up.
To elude the law, Needham and his pals disguised their entry as an ambulance.
www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=361   (275 words)

  
 Cannonball Pump and Run
Participants are required to bench press their body weight (or a percent of their body weight) as many times as possible, then run a mile or a 5K.
All divisions must complete at least one bench press to be entered in the Pump and Run.
All those who chose to or fail to complete the bench press requirement will be entered in the 5K Run or mile only.
www.i-rule.net /wintersetrotary.org/id48.htm   (305 words)

  
 Welcome to the Cannonball Run Europe - The Drive of Your Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Welcome to the Cannonball Run Europe - an event run by Tim Porter for serious petrolheads, and now entering its 5th year.
Four incredibly successful European Events and a Winter Challenge, the Cannonball Run Europe machine is running as strong as ever.
Cannonball is growing - next year experience the Cannonball Run Europe Summer Challenge, the Winter Challenge, and in 2007, the largest ever Cannonball Run - 400 cars, 4 starts, one final night party like no other...
www.cannonballruneurope.co.uk   (193 words)

  
 Cannonball Run II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film received eight Golden Raspberry Award nominations in 1984, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Actress, but no wins.
Cannonball Run II at the Internet Movie Database
This page was last modified 11:11, 26 August 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cannonball_Run_II   (143 words)

  
 "Cannonball Run II" Burt Reynolds ~ Dom Deluise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 1984 sequel to the very successful 1981 Cannonball Run.
For those who may not know, the Cannonball Run is an illegal car race from Connecticut to California.
Note that I also have a print from the original Cannonball Run.
www.hondahog.com /cannonII.htm   (102 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - Cannonball Run to make Powdersville pit stop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The race has gone through a number of changes in format since the 1970s version on which the movie Cannonball Run was based.
One of the two doctors that accompany Dodd on the Cannonball Run, Mike Stein, said he lucked into the job 13 years ago because of his size.
He said the combination of the camaraderie and his love for cars make the Cannonball Run hard to beat for a good time.
greenvilleonline.com /news/2005/04/12/2005041262502.htm   (786 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Cannonball Run -- Hal Needham - DVD - Wide Screen
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.
Of course, Jackie is not used to his full effect in Cannonball, but it's fun anyway.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=BQv1hSt7aT&EAN=26359060922&FRM=0&itm=1   (383 words)

  
 Cannonball Run (USA 1981)
HKFilm.com readers may be scratching their heads at the inclusion of Cannonball Run, the 1981 screwball comedy starring Burt Reynolds at the height of his popularity, and featuring an all-star cast of clowns as they race across America.
Chan got the idea from this movie, which in fact, was one of the first (according to director Hal Needham) to contain outtakes at the end of the film.
As a proper showcase for Jackie Chan, Cannonball Run fails miserably, but as a fun little goofball flick that'll kill about ninety minutes of your time, this movie's a real winner.
www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/cannonball_run.htm   (368 words)

  
 Cannonball Run 2
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Watch her go for the gold again this winter -- first in the women's rights drama North Country, then again in the sleek futuristic thriller, Aeon Flux.
There is one scene where Dean Martin has to swerve his red car, which I believe is a Corvette, off the road to avoid something.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/cannonball_run_2/about.php   (572 words)

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