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The ad featured a story song, twangy country music and a spoken-word ... trucker and CB zeitgeist inspired the 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit" starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, and ...

Portable music took a groovy turn when 8-track ... fueled by hits like “Convoy” and “Smokey and the Bandit.” Long before binge-watching and Friday night movie nights, the humble video ...

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None of them made anything remotely resembling a Reynolds-esque star vehicle, especially Smokey and the Bandit, the rootin’ tootin’ road trip caper co-starring Sally Field with a plot that hinges ...

Even today, most movie fans agree that the 1970s were a highlight in American cinema. However, the decade wasn't all New ...

He was handsome, he was suave, and he was in some of the biggest box office successes of the 1970s. Smokey and the Bandit, Starting Over, Cannonball Run, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, you name ...