Other times, as with The Cannonball Run, it's obvious that the whole process was fun as hell. The movie, which premiered on June 19, 1981, was the brainchild of Brock Yates.

The Cannonball Run is the 1981 movie written by legendary auto writer Brock Yates, loosely based on his own multiple runnings of the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.

Wise played a trooper in the prison-set The Longest Yard (1974), his first onscreen collaboration with Reynolds, and he ...

Alfie Wise, the longtime Burt Reynolds friend, film sidekick and personal assistant who had bit parts in 10 of the movie star ...

Hagerty Drivers Foundation Of the nearly 2000 Countachs built between 1971 and 1990, you’d be hard pressed to find one as famous as the one from Cannonball Run. The movie—which starred Burt ...

After a grueling film schedule and enough hairspray residue from the makeup department to start a chemical fire, the Cannonball Countach spent time under the ownership of a friend of the film's ...

Unsanctioned and illegal, the Cannonball Run was once a multi-car race glorified in the 1980s by a movie of the same name. It has since morphed into a time trial with teams making secretive ...

A frequent co-star of Burt Reynolds, who appeared in such films as “The Cannonball Run” and “Stroker Ace,” has died. Alfie ...