Part of a cycle of ring fighter movies, mostly boxing, some wrestling, initiated by the box-office and critical success of the Academy Award Best Picture winning boxing movie Rocky (1976). The films include Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Tough Enough (1983), Title Shot (1979), Raging Bull (1980)_, The Champ (1979), Matilda (1978), The Main Event (1979), The Prize Fighter (1979), The Greatest (1977), Body and Soul (1981), Paradise Alley (1978), ...All the Marbles (1981) (aka "The California Dolls"), The One and Only (1978), Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980).
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Fan of The Cannonball Run or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Cannonball Run
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Victor Prinzim (Dom DeLuise) was named after Vic Prinzi, a friend and former college football teammate of Burt Reynolds at Florida State University. Reynolds played halfback at FSU before an injury forced him out of football, and Prinzi was the quarterback.
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The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director Hal Needham.
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Before the race, J.J. (Burt Reynolds) tells Victor Prinzim (Dom DeLuise), "Get me Dr. Kildare. Get me Dr. Livingston. Get me Dr. Frankenstein. Just get me a doctor!" The doctor he finds, Dr. Nikolas Van Helsing, played by Jack Elam, played "Frank", Frankenstein's monster in the short-lived television show Struck by Lightning (1979).
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Brock Yates: This movie's screenwriter appeared as the organizer of the race.
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In one of the earlier scenes in the movie, J.J. McClure (Burt Reynolds) said "Could get a black Trans Am", and then answers himself, "Naw, that's been done." This is a reference to Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), which starred Reynolds, and were directed by Hal Needham, who directed this movie. DeLuise co-starred with Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).
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Jackie Chan made one of his first U.S. movie appearances. Inspired by director Hal Needham's notion of including bloopers during the closing credits, Chan began a tradition of doing the same in most of his movies, from this point onward.
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The actual correct full name of the real Cannonball Run race was the "Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash". Besides The Cannonball Run, it was also known as the Cannonball Baker.
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To get material for this movie, Brock Yates ran the final Cannonball in 1979. The move cost him his editorial position at Car and Driver Magazine, which has since been reinstated.
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Cannonball Run - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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