Archie Hahn, Belinda Balaski, Bill McKinney

Cannonball is 100% car-crashin', gas-guzzlin', tire-squealin', '70s-style fun courtesy of executive producer Roger Corman and director Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul). Inspired by the success...( read more  read more... ) of Bartel's Death Race 2000, Corman commissioned him to direct this down-and-dirty adventure comedy about an illegal transcontinental car race and the eccentrics who compete for its $100,000 prize. Leading the pack is David Carradine, who's brought his sexy parole officer (Hill Street Blues' Veronica Hamel) along for the ride; hot on his tail are scurrilous Bill McKinney (Deliverance), cult queen Mary Woronov, and a host of marvelous character actors. Bartel also dots Cannonball with cameos by Corman, Sylvester Stallone, co-writer Don Simpson, and numerous fellow filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, and Allan Arkush, all of whom were in Corman's New World stable at the time. Undeniably lowbrow, but also unquestionably exciting and far more entertaining than Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run pictures (which borrowed wholesale from this film), Cannonball offers plenty of thrills for cult movie enthusiasts. Blue Underground's DVD includes theatrical and TV spots and bemused interviews with Carradine, Corman and Woronov. --Paul Gaita

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DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004

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  • September 29, 2009
    A Roger Corman classic, much better than the other Cannon Ball movies!
  • September 23, 2008
    Rather aimless race movie from the Corman factory.
  • May 27, 2008
    Solid Bartel fun.
  • January 28, 2008
    Great movie! Hilarious!!
  • August 12, 2009
    So-so action flick from Paul Bartel has enough action and fun cameos to make it watchable. Cool cars, too.
  • May 16, 2008
    Great car movie made by the same team and features some of the same actors from Death Race 2000 which was made a year earlier.

    Stars David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Mary Woronov and Veronica Hamel.

    Watch for a cameo by Sylvester Stallone.
  • November 14, 2007
    I can't believe that I actually did see all the shit I've seen :)
  • August 18, 2007
    Worth finding and watching!
  • July 25, 2007
    only if it has fast cars............and girls.
  • May 9, 2007
    The original Gumball 3000!

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  • asche1959
    March 28, 2009
    While not as great as "Two Lane Black Top" or Vanishing Point (original version), this movie is way better then the 2 Burt Reynolds movies that came after it. More serious in tone with just a bit of humor mixed in. This movie will not insult your intelligence by watching it.

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