Smokey & the Bandit, I'd never seen it. The gold standard of the 1970's trucker genera I'm glad I saw it because I suspect this will make a very good wallpaper film, one of those movies you can have on in the background and just kind of lightly pay attention too. I confess that's what I did with this film. Sally Field cute, Jackie Gleason, we'll he's what you'd want out of a Jackie Gleason character. Turns out Smokey means a cop or patrolmen, where as Bandit means Burt Reynolds. Bandit has a lot of colorful trucker friends who help Bandit keeps the Smokey's off of his tale as he runs a truck load of beer from Texas to Georgia, which for some reason is considered bootlegging and hence a major reason to avoid smokey's . Not spectacular.
Good
What! No Beer. A Buster Keaton talkie. Buster didn't do too well in the talkies, though obviously still revered as a silent genius. Busters voice sounds the way you'd expect it to given his naive stone faced persona, he's perfectly adequate as a talker. Jimmy Durante steals it though, how could he not. Buster and Jimmy made a number of these buddy comedies together, in this one they are two friends who hope to capitalize off the repel of Prohibition by fixing up an abandoned brewery. They jump the gun however and start making the beer the day after the referendums and don't wait for the official repeal. The cops come, but the pair didn't really know how to make beer and turns out there product was alcohol free. The police let them go. Jimmy finds someone who can make real beer but they tell upright Keaton that it's near-beer. Organized crime becomes interested in using them as a distributor, Keaton is smitten by a gangsters moll. Hijinks's. Roughly Three Stogies quality.
Fair
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