Cannonball (1976)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6 July 1976 (USA)
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for big money.
Director: Paul Bartel
Writers: Paul Bartel (screenplay), Don Simpson (screenplay) (as Donald C. Simpson)
Stars: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6 July 1976 (USA)
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for big money.
Director: Paul Bartel
Writers: Paul Bartel (screenplay), Don Simpson (screenplay) (as Donald C. Simpson)
Stars: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel
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00:00♪♪
00:02♪♪
00:03Cannonball.
00:05♪♪
00:07An old cannonball's gonna be passing you like you weren't even there.
00:09♪♪
00:10Anyone can enter and anything goes in a squealing, smashing outlaw race across America.
00:16Uh, wanna make a little bet on a Trans-American Grand Prix?
00:18♪♪
00:20Can you handle $20,000?
00:21♪♪
00:25Gentlemen know each other, don't you?
00:26Mr. Redman, Mr. Buckman.
00:28I believe we run into each other once or twice.
00:30♪♪
00:33It's a cross-country demolition derby.
00:35I mean to win this one.
00:37And if you so much as come within 100 miles of me,
00:39you're gonna wind up in my tire tracks right up your...
00:41♪♪
00:45The winner gets $100,000.
00:47The losers keep what's left of their cars.
00:50Nice, huh?
00:51Get me the highway patrol.
00:53♪♪
00:55We're trying to get a word here with Brad Phillips, organizer of the race.
00:58Brad, tell me, your race has been called an outlaw sporting event.
01:01Do you have any comment on that?
01:04Well, the police and safety officials around the country get upset
01:07because our drivers tend to exceed the speed limits.
01:11♪♪
01:19One speeding ticket and you're back in prison.
01:22Oh, God, there's trouble.
01:25Aah!
01:26It's a freeway free-for-all that hits with the impact of a head-on collision.
01:31♪♪
01:44I thought this car could beat anything on the road.
01:48It's part of the winner.
01:50Cannonball.