Stroker Ace - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Stroker Ace or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Stroker Ace

[jessie]

This was first announced for Burt Reynolds in 1975 with Robert Aldrich directing and Lukas Heller scripting.

[michele]

It didn't get a cinema screening in Britain.

[miriam]

The movie was released in theaters domestically by Universal Pictures and overseas by Warner Bros. The distribution rights shifted at its home video release, though Universal still retains merchandising rights.

[maureen]

Penultimate action car stunt comedy from the team of director Hal Needham and star actor Burt Reynolds. Cannonball Run II (1984) would be the last.

[stephanie]

Burt Reynolds once said in 1982, about a year before this picture, that he wasn't going to make any more "car chase" movies.

[leo]

This is the only real live action movie that Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson made together though they both did do voice work for the animated pic All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989). Reynolds and Anderson formed a relationship which lead to a five year marriage between 1988 and 1993, a marriage that began five years after this movie was made. Reportedly, their messy divorce drew much publicity from the media. The two first met on the set of The Merv Griffin Show (1962) in 1981 but did not start dating until 1982. This movie was made and released in 1983.

[carl]

The phrase 'Stand on It' is one of this movie's two English titles and also the title of its source novel. The meaning of this phrase is, according to 'Racing Junky', a racing term for "when a driver depresses the gas pedal as far as possible". It's meaning is similar to the term "flat-out" which they define as "racing a car as fast as possible under given conditions".

[aaron]

Jerry Reed: As himself. Reed appears in an on-set joke with Burt Reynolds during the outtakes blooper roll run during the closing credits. Reed and Reynolds had appeared together in the 'Smokey and the Bandit' movies.

[ethel]

Fifth action car stunt comedy from the team of director Hal Needham and star actor Burt Reynolds. The earlier movies had been Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The Cannonball Run (1981), Hooper (1978) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

[cassandra]

Burt Reynolds would later play another racing car driver in Driven (2001) which was made and released about eighteen years after this movie. In that movie, Reynolds plays a race driver who is retired and acts as a racing mentor to Sylvester Stallone.

[wesley]

Burt Reynolds turned down the role of astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983), a movie script that he reportedly loved. He could not do the film due to his commitment to this movie. The character of Garrett Breedlove was actually written specifically with Reynolds in mind by writer-director James L. Brooks.

[kylie]

This movie's climax race used actual race footage from the Talladega Superspeedway motor-sports complex. Close-ups for the finale were filmed at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia. The latter was known as the Atlanta International Raceway during the time of filming, its name being changed in 1990. Previously, the opening scenes of the earlier Burt Reynolds movie Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) had also been shot at the Atlanta track.

[aaron]

Hal Needham: Director Needham has two separate cameos in the film. The first is when Stroker (Burt Reynolds) is doing the TV ad dressed as a chicken. He's the voice of the commercial director asking him to do one more take (as seen in the outtakes when Burt's 'Smokey and the Bandit' co-star Jerry Reed shows up on set). The second is during the bar fight at the hotel. When Stroker gives a thumbs-up to Lugs (Jim Nabors) and then does a comical spin out of the scene when he's punched by a man in a cowboy hat jettisoning him into a Ladies room. The cowboy is Needham.

[marc]

This movie was made and released about twelve years after its source 'Stand on It' novel by William Neely and Robert K. Ottum was first published in 1971.

[charlie]

Original 'Smokey and the Bandit' franchise director Hal Needham and its big star Burt Reynolds were not interested in making Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) as they were developing this film project. Reynolds ended up making a very brief cameo appearance though in that movie.

[gabriel]

This movie was filmed on five different speedway racetracks. They were the the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Georgia; the Daytona International Speeway in Florida; the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina; the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina and the Talladega SuperSpeedway (then known at the time as the Alabama International Motor Speedway) in Alabama.

[jim]

When Stroker Ace was first introduced as "Fastest Chicken in the South", a black truck can be seen in the background with the lettering "Burt Reynolds & Hal Needham's Grand National Stock Car"

[kristina]

In a 2019 interview with Antenna TV, Parker Stevenson said that he and Burt Reynolds were introduced to each other by Burt's manager at a DGA dinner. Burt told Parker that they were going to work together. About a month later, Burt called Parker and said, "I'm sending you a script. There's no part in the script for you, and you're gonna get an offer. Don't worry about it, it's going to be great. Just say, "yes", just say, "yes". Don't negotiate. Don't cause problems. Just say, "yes". The role he ended up getting was Aubrey James.

[oscar]

This movie featured real NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) drivers as stock car rally drivers on the speedway. The real life drivers included Neil Bonnett, Dale Earnhardt, Harry P. Gant, Terry Labonte, Benny Parsons, Kyle Petty, Tim Richmond, Ricky Rudd and Cale Yarborough.