Gleason, I've had a long day, why don't we get a drink?" and he said, "Absolutely." So we moved to the bar and we never said one word about the script. "Here we go, on the eve of my directorial debut, a big actor wants to talk to me about the script." So, I went over to his hotel, he invited me in and I said, "Mr. Director, would you come over to my hotel? I'd like to talk about the script." "Uh-oh," I thought. The night before we were to shoot he called me and said, "Mr. I had yet to meet with Gleason prior to shooting. I thought, "What a good idea bootleg a little Coors, get in a truck, lots of fast cars and a lot of cops chasin' em." I said, "What on Earth are you doing?" She said, "Well, you can't buy Coors down here and my boyfriend really likes it, so I was just takin' it home to him." Then she told me the story about how she couldn't buy Coors east of the Mississippi, so I just gave her both cases and said, "Thank you very much." That gave me the idea for Smokey and the Bandit. Finally, I set a trap and caught the maid stealin' my Coors beer. They'd disappear one or two at a time, so I kept replacing them. So I stuffed six bottles in the fridge and went about my business. Can I put a couple cases in your room?" I don't drink beer, but I said okay.
#The smokey and the bandit movies driver
Talk to the people and they'll tell you, "Yeah, we used to make a Coors run every weekend across the border." Anyway, the driver captain came down, and he said, "Hey Hal, I bought some Coors. Stories about smuggling Coors beer are legendary. Hal Needham: I was down in Georgia with Burt, working on Gator, and at that time, you could not buy Coors beer east of the Mississippi.
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