Richard Kiel as Arnold, Jackie's driver.Jackie Chan as Jackie Chan, Mitsubishi engineer.Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar and Louis Nye as the fishermen in the rowboat.Catherine Bach as Marcie Thatcher ("Lamborghini Babe #2", originally played by Adrienne Barbeau).
Another team in a Cadillac Fleetwood is accompanied by an orangutan, who appears to be the vehicle's chauffeur.
In a red Lamborghini (white at first) with "two great-looking chicks in it" (as the cops chasing them continually say) is the duo of Jill Rivers and Marcie Thatcher. Other racers include Mitsubishi engineer Jackie Chan, teamed with a giant behind the wheel in a car-a Mitsubishi Starion-able to go under water. They do not lose their habits until later. and Victor when they think the guys could become overnight millionaires. They catch the attention of Betty and Veronica, who are dressed as nuns for a musical, but remain in character and hitch a ride with J.J. and Victor dressed as a US Army general and his driver, a private. After the Sheik manages to bail out Blake and Fenderbaum by handing one of Don Don's thugs a stack of cash, Don Don hatches a plot to kidnap the Sheik in an attempt to extort money from him. In a subplot, Blake and Fenderbaum are in financial trouble with Don Don Canneloni, who in turn is in similar financial trouble with mob enforcer Hymie Kaplan. and Victor, who have taken jobs working with a flying stunt crew. Most of the participants from the first race are lured back, including J.J. McClure and Victor Prinzi in the first race as his in-car physician. To make sure his "Royal Ulcer" does not prevent him from winning, the Sheik hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, who teamed with J.J. When Sheik Abdul points out that there is no Cannonball Run that year, his father simply tells him to "buy one". Probably the knee more than the spleen.Having lost the first Cannonball Run race, Sheik Abdul ben Falafel is ordered by his father, the King, to go back to America and win another Cannonball Run in order to "emblazon the Falafel name as the fastest in the world". While he hoped to go pro, a car accident caused damage to his knee and took his spleen, which hampered his career. In the indie comedy Citizen Ruth he breaks form to portray a hypocritical pro-lifer, and you could argue that the role he felt was most important, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, was a difficult and complicated role that was at odds with the usual lighthearted tone he was most known for.īurton Leon Reynolds was born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, and early on exhibited a talent for football, earning a football scholarship to Florida State. While Reynolds was best known for playing hairy-chested serious men of action or still hairy-chested but less-serious men of action, he did take some less expected roles on occasion. But Reynolds was even more, an icon of cavalier, confident glee in almost any situation, and that quality will certainly be missed. Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run are both wildly enjoyable and iconic car movies, and the greater gearhead community would miss him just for that.