Smokey almost didn’t get his chance to chase the bandits this year. But David Betz should roll into Lincoln next week in uniform as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, driving a patrol car identical to ...

The Bandit smuggles a tractor-trailer-load of beer to Georgia from Texas. He is pursued by a buffoon of a sheriff, Buford T. Justice, whose handle is “Smokey” and who is played by Jackie Gleason.

Burt Reynolds is a true Hollywood legend and Smokey and the Bandit is one of his most iconic films. The 1977 action comedy featured Reynolds as Bo “Bandit” Darville fleeing from Buford T ...

The exchange that follows could echo the following from Smokey and the Bandit, one that took place between a peeved fellow sheriff and Sheriff Justice, who had crossed uninvited into the other's ...

I cannot envision the world where a movie like Smokey And The Bandit—an action-comedy about a famed local driver and his trucker friend tasked with retrieving 400 cases of outlawed Coors beer in ...

On the side of Smoke Point, a local restaurant, is a huge painting depicting the legendary cinematic characters "Smokey" Sheriff Buford T. Justice, played by Jackie Gleason, and "Bandit" Bo ...

AMC Theatres will honor the late acting legend, who died last week at age 82, by bringing the 1977 box-office and cultural smash "Smokey and the Bandit" to 240 theaters across the state from Sept ...

The songwriter/actor looks back on the 1977 hit as "Smokey and the Bandit" celebrates its 45th anniversary.

The movie Smokey and the Bandit opens with Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) of Texas surprising several young men who are “cleaning” a car which had been abandoned by Justice’s would be ...

While this is arguably the most iconic Firebird in history, here are some lesser-known facts about this epic movie car ...

"Smokey and the Bandit," one of Burt Reynolds' biggest hits, will come back to theaters in honor of his passing.

You would compare former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County to Sheriff Buford T. Justice in “Smokey and the Bandit.” But that would be insulting to the goober lawman Jackie Gleason played ...