Recently found a DVD copy of this is in a second hand store and decided to watch it again, not having seen it since it came out in 1981 or whenever. It's an amazing cast, but they are all slumming and mugging shamelessly. The jokes are sexist, racist and generally stupid. The stunts are so so by today's standards. Still, any movie that features Dom Deluise, Burt Reynolds, Jack Elam and Farrah Fawcett as two fake ambulance attendants, a fake doctor and fake patient trying to win a race in an ambulance is worth a watch. Poor Farrah, she was gorgeous and actually very funny, but the director should have either provided her with a bra or turned the heat up on set based on most of her individual shots. Either the best or worst of road race movies, depending on your point of view. The funniest scenes in my opinion are shown during the final credits, the outtakes suggest that the whole cast was either half wasted, or just having a really good time or maybe both.
Review of The Cannonball Run
