RIP Bandit

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Edited Date/Time 9/10/2018 8:06am
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Donovan759 9/6/2018 12:40pm
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Just saw the news... man that sucks... Rest in peace Bandit.. you sumbitch...
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God Speed Bandit

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dsmith 9/6/2018 2:25pm
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damn..."Deliverance," "The Longest Yard", "Smokey and the Bandit,"....I love all those movies RIP
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ATKpilot99 9/6/2018 2:52pm
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Whenever I see The Longest Yard while scrolling through the channel guide I'm always hoping it will be the original but alas it ends up being the Sandler version....RIP Mr. Reynolds.
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EZZA 95B 9/6/2018 2:57pm
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RIP, absolutely loved watching Smokey and the Bandit as a kid and still do whenever it's on.
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KMC440 9/6/2018 3:00pm
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No matter who you were in the 70's you knew his name. That's powerful.

One of the few remaining greats of that era left.

RIP Bandit.
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yz133rider 9/6/2018 4:19pm
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I lost my license because of that movie. To say it influenced me is an understatement lol.
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KennyT 9/6/2018 4:39pm
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Loved that guys laugh....gave me many laughs over the years and more to come when I tune into his old movies.
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GIwasB4 9/6/2018 7:15pm
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Gator! Only two things in the world I'm scared of , that's women and police.

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JustMX 9/8/2018 6:44am
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Got a kick out of this bit in one of the articles:

In John Boorman's Deliverance (1972), based on a book by James Dickey, Reynolds starred as macho survivalist Lewis Medlock, one of four guys from Atlanta who head to the wilderness for the weekend. Filmed by Vilmos Zsigmond along the Chattooga River near the Georgia-South Carolina border, it was an arduous production that Boorman shot in sequence.

"When I asked John why, he said, 'In case one of you drowns,'" Reynolds wrote.

He had good reason. When Reynolds saw test footage of a dummy in a canoe going over the falls in one scene, he told Boorman the scene looked fake. He climbed into the canoe, was sent crashing into the rocks and ended up in the hospital. "I asked [Boorman] how [the new footage] looked, and he said, 'Like a dummy going over the falls,'" Reynolds wrote.

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Kenny Lingus 9/8/2018 8:05am
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It wasn't his most popular movie but, Stroker Ace is one of my favorite movies.
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Nighttrain 9/8/2018 10:13am
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WW and The Dixie Dancekings, White Lightning, Longest Yard, Cannonball Run....the list of entertaining movies is long.
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Ted722 9/8/2018 10:14am
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JustMX wrote:
Got a kick out of this bit in one of the articles: In John Boorman's Deliverance (1972), based on a book by James Dickey, Reynolds starred...
Got a kick out of this bit in one of the articles:

In John Boorman's Deliverance (1972), based on a book by James Dickey, Reynolds starred as macho survivalist Lewis Medlock, one of four guys from Atlanta who head to the wilderness for the weekend. Filmed by Vilmos Zsigmond along the Chattooga River near the Georgia-South Carolina border, it was an arduous production that Boorman shot in sequence.

"When I asked John why, he said, 'In case one of you drowns,'" Reynolds wrote.

He had good reason. When Reynolds saw test footage of a dummy in a canoe going over the falls in one scene, he told Boorman the scene looked fake. He climbed into the canoe, was sent crashing into the rocks and ended up in the hospital. "I asked [Boorman] how [the new footage] looked, and he said, 'Like a dummy going over the falls,'" Reynolds wrote.

He has some funny exchanges with Johnny Carson and tells the same story. Enjoyed his work.
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hillbilly 9/9/2018 6:12am
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The chattooga is a intense river,very remote,no help.

Back in the eighties we had to sign in and sign out ,there are holes ,hydraulics they are called like at the bottom of a damn,that will hold you till they cut a tree to wash thru and get your dead wrinkled a ss out.

Most probably don't know he got started playing Indians at ghost town in the sky at Cherokee nc

Doing falls off building s in cowboy gunfights. Forget who saw him and got him west to play more Indian s in early movies.

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early 9/9/2018 4:53pm
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RIP, revisiting the bandit again tonight
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jeffro503 9/10/2018 8:06am
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Real bummer when I saw the news yesterday. Burt was the one guy that my mom told my dad...." Burt is the only man on Earth I'd leave you for ". Haha. He was definitely a legend in films when I was a kid. RIP Bandit.

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