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The Cannonball Run (1981)
In director Hal Needham's classic, illegal cross-country
car race film - an iconic early non-PC 80s movie - with an all-star
cast of caricatured, daredevil drivers in one or two-person crews:
- the modified 20th Century Fox logo in the film's
opening - a police car chasing a red sports-car into the logo's
monument
- the all-star cast of caricatured individuals - daredevil
drivers in one or two-person crews: Dom DeLuise as Victor Prinzim/Captain
Chaos and Burt Reynolds as ambulance driver J.J. McClure (the defending
champ), Jackie Chan as Japanese high-tech/martial-arts expert in
a Subaru, Jamie Farr as an Arab sheik in a Rolls-Royce, Dean Martin
and Sammy Davis, Jr. as two disguised drunken priests Jamie Blake
and Fenderbaum in a red Ferrari, a country-boy duo of "stuttering" Mel
Tillis and beer-guzzling Terry Bradshaw in a red "Hawaiian Tropic"
Chevrolet stock car, and Bond's Roger Moore as Seymour Goldfarb Jr.
in an Aston Martin
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Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett)
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- the vacuous, brain-dead and vapid environmentalist/reporter
Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett), conspicuously braless throughout
the movie, who thought "cannonballers" were a bowling
team, and told race representative Arthur J. Foyt (George Furth)
about her love for trees and everything natural: ("I love
anybody who loves trees....You know what I like best about trees?...That
you can lie under them on a moonlit night with the breeze blowing,
ball your brains out"); when J.J. McClure met her for the
first time, he tried to guess her name: "Melissande, Juliet,
Betty"
and then decided: "I'll just call you Beauty, okay?"
after which she dumbly asked: "Are you one of those volleyballers?"
- the series of cop encounters when two sexy Lamborghini
babes in tight pants-suits with zipper fronts were stopped in their
car for speeding, and busty, cleavage-revealing driver Marcie Thatcher
(Adrienne Barbeau) used her sex appeal with male cops to be released
without charges, but then was strictly treated by a female cop (Valerie
Perrine): ("Well, hello, Hotpants! I don't suppose you have
a driver's license tucked down in there somewhere, do you?")
- the closing credits - composed of wacky and very funny
out-takes
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Modified Logo
Dom DeLuise as Captain Chaos
Jamie Farr as Arab Sheik
"Hawaiian Tropic" Car
Marcie Thatcher
(Adrienne Barbeau)
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