He looks his age these days.
I’ve always like the “Man Law” ads.
He’ll always be Dan August to me.
I sort of like him but I don’t think he made any good movies.
He was at the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction a few weeks ago,
The were selling off a Trans Am used in Promotional Shoots for the Smokey and the Bandit Movie. Beautiful Car.
Bert is looking old and frail. He got a standing ovation from the crowd and said a few words. It was good to see him.
Even those strapping young guys get old. Even the not so strapping young guys get old come to think of it.
What's a BD? Bowel deformity?......yuck!
His greatest performance was as Lewis in “Deliverance.” He was also very good in “The Longest Yard.” And “Hooper” was pretty good, too.
“Sharky’s Machine” was not great - but it did introduce us to the luscious Rachel Ward.
A fairly typical, widescreen 1960's Western (not that there is anything wrong with that) made memorable by Raquel Welch's stunning beauty and a young Burt Reynolds bursting with untapped superstardom.
Director John Boorman's backwoods, gothic thriller is every bit as effective today as it was 40-plus years ago. One of the screen's all-time great turning points is when the capable, confident, man-of-action Lewis (Reynolds) is incapacitated by a horrific injury. At that point, you're sure everyone is doomed.
There is no question "Deliverance" is Jon Voight's picture, but there is also no question a star was born.
Director Joseph Sargent delivers one of the great underrated movies of the 1970's. This is the debut of Reynolds as Bobby "Gator" McKlusky, an imprisoned moonshiner who goes undercover to catch the corrupt sheriff (Ned Beatty, again proving what an amazing character actor he is) who murdered his hippie brother.
The teaming of Reynolds and the great Bo Hopkins is about as good as it gets. Everything in this drive-in masterpiece works: the look, the feel, and most of all Gator thumbing his nose at any and all government authority, even though he's been forced to work for the Feds.
Reynolds called this film “The beginning of a whole series of films made in the South, about the South and for the South.â€
Gator would return in Reynolds' 1976 directing debut "Gator," which has its charms, but not many.
After "White Lightning,' Reynolds jumped directly into one of the all-time great screen comedies. Tracy Keenan Wynn's masterpiece of a screenplay mixes "MASH" and "The Dirty Dozen" into a gritty and absolutely hilarious story that ends with hardcore prisoners taking on hardcore prison guards in a football game.
As disgraced former-NFL quarterback Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, Reynolds proved he could carry a movie without breaking a sweat.
Never have I laughed so hard or had a better time in a movie theatre.
And it hasn't aged a day.
A dirty, hilarious, insightful sports comedy.
Reynolds is so good, he held his own with Robert Preston.
Writer/director Hal Needham reheated his sure-fire "Smokey and the Bandit" formula but switched out moonshiners for stuntmen.
Another monster hit for both, and deservedly so.
Reynolds shaves the mustache, moves to Boston, and convincingly portrays a somewhat nebbish teacher still reeling from a heartbreaking divorce.
Anyone who questions Reynolds range as an actor is in for an awakening and a treat.
Reynolds stars in and directs what is one of the best urban action films of the 80's. For the life of me, I cannot understand why this didn’t become a franchise for Reynolds. He would go back to this well a number of times in lesser films like "Heat," "Stick," and "Physical Evidence."
Nothing came close to "Sharky," though, when it could have been his "Dirty Harry" franchise.
What a loss.
By writing a great role for a 60 year-old former superstar still in his prime, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson pulled a Quentin Tarantino for Reynolds, who reportedly hated the sleaziness of the film. Nevertheless, Reynolds shines.
My favorite scene is an extended take of Jack Horner walking through his big house in the Valley just being, well, Burt Reynolds. We only see Reynolds from the back, and even from that angle the man throws off more charisma than anyone has a right to.
Love Burt Reynolds! Can’t believe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas didn’t make the top 10. One of the funniest movies ever! Dom DeLuise, Dolly Parton, Jim Nabors were all great. Here is one of the best scenes with Burt & Dom.............
Semi Tough is my favorite, a great send up of the 70’s “theraputic” culture.
“W.W. And The Dixie Dance Kings” with Jerry Reed and Art Carney is one of his funniest...maybe his funniest. Reynolds plays a reprobate who only robs gas stations and banks owned by a certain oil company. Art Carney steals the picture as a bible-quoting officer of the law hired to get Reynolds. “Smokey and The Bandit” was crap.
That was supposed to be then new mature and sophisticated Burt.
Somehow it never worked out.
