Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pat McCormick and Paul Williams as Big Enos and Little Enos in Smokey and the Bandit. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection) "Billy ...

The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit (the second-highest grossing movie of 1977, after Star Wars) ...

After over 10 years of searching, I finally bought my dream car. A 1977 Pontiac Trans Am, nearly identical to the one in the movie Smokey and the Bandit. Prior to buying this Trans Am, I spent at ...

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the “Best Picture” of 1977 is Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. That’s nuts. No one cares about that movie. Only two movies made in 1977 still ...

Watching Smokey and the Bandit all these years after its release is an exercise in cultural anthropology. Even more so than other films of its time, this 1977 car-chase comedy drops markers about its ...

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- When “Smokey and the Bandit” held its premier at Radio City Music Hall on May 19, 1977, the low-budget action comedy bombed, trashed by critics and audience members alike.

For many Bandit Trans Am owners, their affection for the black-and-gold Special Edition models began not in high-profile auction houses or Internet sales sites, but on the silver screen when they ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Dust off your CB radio and read up on the lingo, a group celebrating Smokey and the Bandit will be revving across Michigan. The Bandit Run is a group celebrating ...