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The Cannonball Run (1981)
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 96 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Media Asia Group Golden Harvest presents
an Albert S. Ruddy production A Hal Needham film
Copyright: © Eurasia Investments Ltd 1980 © 1993 STAR
TV Filmed Entertainment Limited
Executive Producer: Raymond Chow
Produced by: Albert S. Ruddy
Associate Producer: David Shamroy Hamburger
Production Supervisor: André Morgan
Unit Production Manager: David S. Hamburger
Production Coordinator: Maureen Osborne-Beall
SCRIPT
Written by: Brock Yates
DIRECTION
Directed by: Hal Needham
First Assistant Director: Bill Coker
2nd Assistant Director: Frank Bueno
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michael Butler
Camera Operator: Dick Colean
Gaffer: Bud Schindler
Still Photographer: Richard Robinson
Panaflex Camera and Lenses: Panavision
Color by Technicolor
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Edited by: Donn Cambern, William D. Gordean
Assistant Film Editors: Janice Parker, Steve Mirkovich, William Meshover
MUSIC
Music Arranged and Conducted by: Al Capps
Music Supervision: Snuff Garrett
Music Mixer: Grover Helsley
Assistant Music Mixer: Chris McNary
Music Editor: James Henrikson
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"Cannonball"
Written by R. Stevens
Performed by Ray Stevens
"Love Is On the Air"
Written by L. Henley, J. Hurt and J. Slate
Performed by Lou Rawls
"The Cannonball Run"
Written by C. Mangione
Performed by Chuck Mangione
"Beauty's Theme"
Written by J. Durrill, A. Capps, C. Crofford and S. Garrett
Performed by Al Capps
"Just For the Hell Of It"
Written by R. Stevens
Performed by Ray Stevens
"If And When"
Written by B. Peters
Performed by Lou Rawls
"You've Gotta Have a Dream"
Written by P. Molinary, A. Capps and B. Garrett
Performed by The California Children's Chorus
SOUND
Sound: Jack Solomon
Boom Operator: Glen Lambert
Supervising Sound Editor: Milton Burrow
Sound Re-Recording: Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, Rick Kline
Loops Dialogue Editor: Jay Engel
Sound Effects Editors: Robert A. Reich, David M. Horton, Gordon Davidson,
James Yant, Neil Burrow
Assistant Sound Effects Editor: Scott Burrow
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make-up: Tom Ellingwood, Ed Butterworth
Hair Stylist: Gabe Borgo
Costume Supervisor: Norman Salling
Men's Costumes: Don Vargas, Darryl Athons
Women's Costumes: Kathy O'Rear
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects by: Cliff Wenger, Sr.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Optical Effects: Pacific Title
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Carol Wenger
Set Decorator: Rochell Moser
Property Master: Jerry Graham
Assistant Property Master: Gary Kieldrup
OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Hope Williams
Production Assistants: Gwin Lawler, Chip Vucelich
Assistant to the Producer: Adele Nadel
Assistant to Hal Needham: Kathy Shea
Transportation Coordinator: Howard Small
Transportation Captain: Michael Doyke
Unit Publicist: Stanley Brossette, Art Sarno
Nurse: Dorothy Vitale
"Behind the Green Door" with permission of Mitchell Brothers
Film Group
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Producers wish to thank: Governor George Busby of the Sovereign
State of Georgia and Ed Spiva, Deputy Commissioner of the Georgia Department
of Industry & Trade
LOCATIONS
Locations: King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California, USA; Old Tucson,
Arizona, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Location Services: Chris Karamanos
Location Auditors: John W. Stuart, Jim McCarthy
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Bobby Bass
CASTING
Talent Coordinator: Sheila Manning
CAST
Burt Reynolds (J.J. McClure)
Roger Moore (Seymour Goldfarb Jr)
Farrah Fawcett (Pamela Glover)
Dom DeLuise (Victor Prinzim/Captain Chaos)
Dean Martin (Jamie Blake/priest)
Sammy Davis, Jr. (Morris Fenderbaum/priest)
Jack Elam (Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing)
Starring in alphabetical order
Adrienne Barbeau (Marcia Thatcher)
Terry Bradshaw (Terry)
Jackie Chan (Subaru driver #1)
Bert Convy (Bradford Compton)
Jamie Farr (the Sheik)
Peter Fonda (chief biker)
George Furth (Arthur J. Foyt)
Michael Hui (Subaru driver #2)
Bianca Jagger (Sheik's sister)
Molly Picon (Mrs Goldfarb)
Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder (The Greek)
Mel Tillis (Mel)
Co-starring in alphabetical order
Rick Aviles (Mad Dog)
Warren Berlinger (Shakey Finch)
Tara Buckman (Jill Rivers)
John Fiedler (desk clerk)
Norman Grabowski (Petoski)
Joe Klecko (Polish racing driver)
Grayce Spence (chair person)
Bob Tessier (biker)
Alfie Wise (Batman)
Johnny Yune (TV talk show host)
and Seymour's girls
Lois Areno, Simone Burton, Finele Carpenter, Susan McDonald, Janet Woytak
Ben Rogers (Pennsylvania patrolman)
Jim Lewis (Missouri patrolman #1)
Fred Smith (Californian patrolman #1)
Roy Tatum (Connecticut patrolman)
Dudley Remus (New Jersey patrolman #1)
Hal Carter (New Jersey patrolman #2)
Brock Yates (organizer)
Kathleen M. Shea (starting girl)
Nancy Austin (phone booth lady)
Vickie Reigle (car hop)
Bob Stenner (California Highway Patrolman #2)
Ken Squier (California Highway Patrolman #3)
Samir Kamoun (Sadouin)
John Megna (Arthur Rose)
Linda McClure (dour lady)
Laura Lizer Sommers (lady in distress)
Richard Losee (Trans Am driver)
Richie Burns Wright (farmboy)
Lois Hamilton (Spike, one of Seymour's girls - uncredited)
Valerie Perrine (female cop - uncredited)
Hal Needham (man in ambulance - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
A group of eccentrics and oddballs take part in an illegal cross country
car race, The Cannonball Run. Among those taking part are a man who
believes himself to be James Bond, another man who thinks he's a superhero
and an Oriental team with a high-tech, gadget packed car.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Looking horribly dated now, The Cannonball Run has
some fun moments but much of it just seems rather smug, self-congratulatory
and self-indulgent. Nowhere near as funny (or as nasty) as the similarly
themed Death Race 2000 (1975), it's interesting now
for the appearance by Jackie Chan and for the impressively starry cast.
Nothing much else works though.
AVAILABILITY
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Tobis Filmkunst
UK
Laserdisc Distributor: CBS Fox (6208-70)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Laserdisc Distributor: Image (IDVL 6001)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (90609)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Finland
Rating: K-16
Norway
Rating: 16 (in 1982); 15
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG
The Image laserdisc (IDVL 6001) has all of the swear words dubbed over
with less offensive words. Some video releases are similarly edited.
AWARDS
1982
Razzie Awards
Worst Supporting Actress (Farrah Fawcett) - nominated
1985
Golden Screen, Germany
Golden Screen - winner
TIMELINE
1981
July
8: France - theatrical release
24: Sweden - theatrical release
October
1: West Germany - theatrical release
1982
January
19: Norway - theatrical release
29: Finland - theatrical release
2001
January
1: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (90609))
2006
December
31: UK - television broadcast (on Five)
POSTER TAGS
You'll root for them all... but you'll never guess who wins.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Verdens sprøeste bilrace - Norwegian title
Auf dem Highway ist die Hölle los - German title
La corsa più pazza d'America - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUELS
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Speed Zone! (1989)
SEE ALSO
The Spy Who Loved Me
(1977)
Thunderball (1965)
Wacky Races (1968)
Wacky Races (2000)
REFERENCES
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credits
KEYWORDS
automobiles, car chases, car races, cars, gadgets, races, spies, superheroes
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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