Name: Cannonball
Genre: Action

Cannonball

Hong Kong, United States · 1976
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Paul Bartel
Starring David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham
Genre Action

Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman (Bill McKinney), his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.

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Variety by

Cannoball will please those who won’t rest until they see every car in creation destroyed and aflame.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It tries for the greatest realism in its obligatory shots of gas tanks exploding, and yet includes such absurdities as a local news helicopter that tracks all of the competitors all the way from LA to New York. To be sure, without the traffic copter the story would have been impossible to follow - but then why follow the story anyway? In the meantime, can we possibly hold our breath for "Gumball Rally?" I'll bet I can.

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