# The Cannonball Run

The Cannonball Run is a 1981 comedy film about a wide variety of eccentric competitors who participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.
    Directed by Hal Needham. Written by Brock Yates.

## Organizer

* Of course you know certain skeptics note that perhaps 10,000 of the nations' most elite highway patrolmen are out there waiting for us after we start, but let's stay positively: Think of the fact that there's not one state in the 50 that has the death penalty for speeding... although I'm not so sure about Ohio.

## Dialogue

    Fenderbaum: We've got a secret weapon. God is our co-pilot!
    The Geek: You'll need him!
    Jamie Blake: *God* is our co-pilot?
    Fenderbaum: Uh huh...
    Jamie Blake: Remember our car?
    Fenderbaum: Uh huh...
    Jamie Blake: Two seats?
    Fenderbaum: Two seats...
    Jamie Blake: Where's he gonna sit? [smack] Where's he gonna sit? [smack]
    Fenderbaum: Why'd he call me Shorty?
    Jamie Blake: 'Cause you're small. Small. S - M - all.
    The Sheik: My driving is rivaled only by the lightning bolts from the heavens!
    [thunder crashes]
    Shiek's Sister: So you still intend to enter the race with the infidel Americans?
    The Sheik: The Cannonball will fall to the forces of Islam! [thunder crashes] My dear sister! I swear it!
    Mr. Foyt: Terrorists my dimpled ass! These people make terrorists look like the Sisters of Charity! These guys are Cannonballers!
    Pamela Glover: What is that? A bowling team?
    Mr. Foyt: Well, how do you all feel now you have raped the American highways?
    J.J. McClure: Beautiful!
    J.J. McClure: Thanks to you, Victor, we do not have a female patient in the back.
    Victor Prinsi: Well, it's not my fault that she didn't fit in the stretcher!
    J.J. McClure: She doesn't fit in the AMBULANCE!
    [finding the men's room locked, Van Helsing follows Pamela into the women's room]
    Pamela Glover: Wait a minute, you can't come in here.
    Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing: Madam, not to be indelicate but in my profession; if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
    Pamela Glover: Oh, okay.
    Fenderbaum: [Fenderbaum and Blake's Ferrari drives alongside J.J.'s ambulance] Pull over! We want to give you our blessing!
    Victor Prinsi: J.J., there are two priest in that car. They want us to pull over.
    J.J. McClure: Victor, that's two priests driving a Ferrari. When's the last time you saw two priests drive a Ferrari? What are they doing, taking home the bingo money?
    Victor Prinsi: No, they're doing the work of the Lord. In a Ferrari, they can just do it faster.
    Fenderbaum: [noticing Blake acting oddly at bar] What is it?
    Jamie Blake: Look at the chicks! Boy, if they were Methodists, what a shot we could have had of getting laid right here.
    [guy at bar overhearing spits his drink out]

## Cast

* Burt Reynolds - J.J. McClure
* Dom DeLuise - Victor Prinzi
* Roger Moore - Seymour Goldfarb, Jr.
* Farrah Fawcett - Pamela Glover
* Dean Martin - Jamie Blake
* Sammy Davis Jr. - Fenderbaum
* George Furth - Arthur J. Foyt
* Jackie Chan - Mitsubishi Driver #1
* Jamie Farr - Sheik Abdul ben Falafel
* Terry Bradshaw - Terry
* Mel Tillis - Mel
* Adrienne Barbeau - Marcie Thatcher
* Tara Buckman - Jill Rivers
* Peter Fonda - Chief Biker
* Bert Convy - Bradford Compton
* Jack Elam - Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing
* Rick Aviles - Mad Dog
* John Fiedler - the desk clerk
* Joe Klecko - the Polish driver
* Brock Yates - the race organizer
* Hal Needham - the ambulance EMT (uncredited)
* Ken Squier - a California Highway Patrolman

## External links

* The Cannonball Run quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Cannonball Run at Rotten Tomatoes