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Reynolds said no to Bond -
3 September 2004
Burt Reynolds claims he turned down the chance to play superspy James Bond.-The Smokey and the Bandit star said he was offered the part in 1969, after Sean Connery stepped down.-But he turned down the part - for the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service - believing whoe
Burt Reynolds - what members say
review by from Manchester, England
Im a star, Im a star, Im a big bright shining star. 30 January 2005
review by from London, England
Top notch movie 22 March 2004
review by from W.Yorks
Woody's last crazy comedy 28 December 2004
Burt Reynolds - filmography
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Deal
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bret Harrison
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Certificate: 
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Tommy Vinson is an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again." Tommy tries to be content with his luggage business but while watching a poker tournament on television, he sees someone who reminds ..read more »
 
58%
from 677 members
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In the Name of the King - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies
Director: Uwe Boll
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is adapted from the computer game Dungeon Seige. The film features a host of stars, including Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Ron Perlman and Jason Statham. A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son - two acts ..read more »
49%
from 2,069 members
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End Game
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Woods, Angie Harmon
Director: Andy Cheng
Certificate:
The secret service agent in charge of the president's safety blames himself and his team for failing to stop his assassination. He quits his post only to become obsessed with solving the crime. A tenacious reporter aids him in his quest. Together they follow a perilous path of intrigue, unravelling ..read more »
55%
from 10,178 members
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Dukes of Hazzard - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Alice Greczan
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Certificate:
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It was inevitable that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD would leap onto the big screen, and now, thanks to Broken Lizard's Jay Chandrasekhar (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD), it finally has. Slipping into the boots made famous by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville play moonshine-..read more »
55%
from 326 members
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Grilled
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ray Romano, Kevin James, Kim Coates
Director: Jason Ensler
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EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND star, Ray Romano, takes a lead role alongside Kevin James (HITCH), in this comic buddy movie. Playing two meat salesmen, the two lads fall into a spot of bother and end up having to make a big sale before they end up in the same state as the goods they're peddling. Juliette ..read more »
44%
from 650 members
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The Longest Yard
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds
Director: Peter Segal
Certificate:
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, rap music superstar Nelly and screen legend Burt Reynolds star in this riotous comdey about a group of convicts putting together a football team to play against their greatest enemy - the menacing guards that keep them behind bars...
63%
from 41,529 members
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Dukes of Hazzard
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Alice Greczan
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Certificate:
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It was inevitable that The Dukes of Hazzard would leap onto the big screen, and now, thanks to Broken Lizard's Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, Club Dread), it finally has. Slipping into the boots made famous by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville play moonshine-..read more »
51%
from 46,626 members
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Miss Lettie And Me
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Burt Reynolds, Charles Robinson
Director: Ian Barry
Certificate: 
This made-for-television holiday film stars Mary Tyler Moore as Lettie Anderson, a curmudgeonly spinster living a solitary, loveless existence on her rural Southern plantation. With the unexpected arrival of Lettie's spunky 9-year-old grandniece Travis (Holliston Coleman), farmhand Isaiah Wallace (..read more »
43%
from 34 members
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Driven
(2001)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, Stacy Edwards
Director: Renny Harlin
Certificate: 
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Talented but unfocused rookie Jimmy Bly is slipping in the rankings, cracking under pressure from his ambitious promoter brother. It doesn't help that Bly is pursuing an affair with Sophia, the girlfriend of his nemesis, top racer Beau Brandenburg. With so much riding on Bly, seasoned car owner ..read more »
54%
from 1,298 member
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Hotel
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek
Director: Mike Figgis
Certificate: 
An experimental and challenging film from director Mike Figgis, HOTEL follows a movie crew in Venice filming a version of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, which is in turn filmed by a documentary filmmaker. One of the movies ends in a bloodbath of torture, carnage, and cannibalism. But which one
37%
from 656 members
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The Last Producer
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ann-Margret, Benjamin Bratt
Director: Burt Reynolds
Certificate:
Burt Reynolds directs and stars in this expose of the decidedly unglamourous machinations of behind-the-scenes Hollywood filmmaking. Sonny Wexler (Reynolds) is an old-style producer trying to recapture some of the success and respect he commanded in the past. His hope for one more shot at the big ..read more »
38%
from 55 members
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Pups
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton, Cameron Van Hoy
Director: Ash
Certificate:
Stevie (Van Hoy) is an ordinary thirteen year-old boy who finds his mother's gun and impulsively decides to rob a bank with his girlfriend, Rocky (Barton). The holdup escalates into a media circus, with an FBI negotiator (Reynolds) unable to stop the madness and the hostages inside the bank causing ..read more »
53%
from 162 members
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Mystery Alaska
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack
Director: Jay Roach
Certificate:
Hot stars Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander) and Burt Reynolds (Striptease, Boogie Nights) team up with an impressive cast to score big laughs in this offbeat sexy comedy. The hockey-loving village of Mystery, Alaska may look cold from the outside, but behind closed doors are ..read more »
69%
from 870 members
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Hard Time - The Premonition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bruce Dern
Director: David S. Cass Sr.
Certificate:
Burt Reynolds returns as Logan McQueen, the hardest and most fearless cop in Florida. At the end of 'Hard Time', Logan had loyally offered to take the fall on behalf of his partner Duffy (Durning), a move which has now esconsed him behind bars with the very criminals he helped put there! When a ..read more »
54%
from 27 members
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Crazy Six
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Rob Lowe, Mario Van Peebles
Director: Albert Pyun
Certificate:
In a futuristic Europe where anarchy reigns, a turf war erupts between powerful crime families who supply the warring nations and guerrilla factions with the necessary armaments--and other black market accouterments.
35%
from 113 members
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Hard Time
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Robert Loggia
Director: Burt Reynolds
Certificate:
Detectives, Logan McQueen and Charles Duffy stumble onto a drugs deal and decide to intervene. Logan chases the thugs having just snatched a bag full of drug money that belongs to notorious drug baron, Conrad Martin. After the mysterious shooting of one of the thugs and the disappearance of some of ..read more »
45%
from 60 members
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Boogie Nights
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Certificate:
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While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes adult films, exotic motion pictures. In ..read more »
66%
from 16,677 members
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Boogie Nights - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Certificate:
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It's Los Angeles, 1977, and adult film director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) meets Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), a well-endowed dishwasher in a nightclub. Jack recruits Eddie to be his newest star and Eddie, hungry for fame, quickly agrees, changing his name to Dirk Diggler. Soon Dirk is the hottest ..read more »
73%
from 903 members
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Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed
Director: Mel Smith
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In his big-screen debut, the bumbling, barely verbal Mr. Bean lands in Los Angeles, where he has been sent to "guard" Whistler's Mother as it changes hands between the London National Art Gallery and a chic private gallery. Absurd laughs from the hilarious Atkinson.
61%
from 5,857 members
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Striptease
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick
Director: Andrew Bergman
Certificate:
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When a Miami mother loses her job as a secretary, her lowlife ex-husband is awarded custody of their young daughter. Taking a job as a stripper to raise enough money for a court appeal, she unwittingly attracts the obsessive and insistent attentions of a crazed, slavering U.S. Congressman. Adapted ..read more »
53%
from 2,474 members
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Physical Evidence
(1988)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty
Director: Michael Crichton
Certificate:
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Burt Reynolds plays detective Joe Paris, recently suspended for not 'playing by the book.' A villain is found murdered and Paris is arrested for his murder. Jennifer Hudson, an ambitious lawyer, is assigned to defend him. Paris has no alibi. It looks like an open and shut case...
54%
from 110 members
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Switching Channels
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Henry Gibson, Christopher Reeve, George Newbern
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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A television anchorwoman finds herself caught between a handsome tycoon and her lunatic ex-boss/ex-husband. With only a few hours to say 'I Do' the ex-husband, still in love with her, leaps into action to cancel the tycoon and scoop her back.
61%
from 98 members
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Stick
(1985)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal
Director: Burt Reynolds
Certificate: 
Ernest (Stick) Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, but trouble follows him throughout as he tries to collect a debt and make up for lost time with his daughter. ..read more »
100%
from 1 member
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City Heat
(1984)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn
Director: Richard Benjamin
Certificate:
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Kansas City 1930's. Prohibition rules and the mobs run the streets. Clint Eastwood is hard-nosed Lt. Speer, a cop with an unhealthy disrespect for Private Investigators who do things their own way. Burt Reynolds is Mike Murphy, a P.I. who does what he likes and doesn't mind letting Speer know it.
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61%
from 922 members
Not currently released
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Stroker Ace
(1983)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors
Director: Hal Needham
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Stroker Ace is a flamboyant, skirt-chasing race car driver. In between crashing and smashing autos, Stroker is trying to get out of a promotional contract which requires him to wear an embarrassing chicken suit -- which could seriously hinder his pursuit of the buxom public relations executive who ..read more »
60%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise
Director: Colin Higgins
Certificate:
Reynolds is the local sheriff who is more interested in keeping the town's most popular business open than carrying out the letter of the law. Parton is the whorehouse madame who also happens to hold the sheriff's interest. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Charles Durning.
68%
from 1,381 member
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The Cannonball Run
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett
Director: Hal Needham
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A cross-country car race provides the plot for this action-packed madcap comedy with an all-star cast. The fun moves from coast to coast with the likes of Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Mel Tillis, Sammy Davis Jr., and dozens of others. And watch for martial ..read more »
67%
from 4,234 members
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Sharky's Machine
(1981)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Henry Silva
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Someone, it would appear, has taken over the underworld activities of Atlanta, Georgia - Drugs, call-girls, political pay-offs and murder - and a new kingpin is calling all the shots. Undercover cop Tom Sharky (Burt Reynolds) knows him only as 'The Ace'.
The trouble is that Sharky, once the best, ..read more »
55%
from 46 members
Currently unavailable
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Smokey And The Bandit 2 and 3
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Paul Williams
Director: Hal Needham
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In Smokey and the Bandit 2: A raucous political race results in the comeback of the wild ways of the Bandit. Once again he is pursued by arch-enemy Sheriff Buford T. Justice, who is still madly obsessed with aprehending him. But this time the loot is even bigger - a pregnant elephant.
In Smokey and ..read more »
64%
from 1,435 member
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Rough Cut
(1980)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
Director: Don Siegel
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A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
45%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Hooper
(1978)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field
Director: Hal Needham
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When it comes to life-threatening exploits, they don't get any better than those of professional stuntman Sonny Hooper - until now. Although Sonny's body is feeling the effects of his very long and successful career, the appearance of a charismatic rival on the scene causes him to attempt the most ..read more »
61%
from 74 members
Currently unavailable
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The End
(1978)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field
Director: Burt Reynolds
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Wendell Lawson has only 6 months to live. Not wanting to live his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take his own life. He enlists the help of a humorously delusional mental patient, and the movie chronicles his many unsuccessful attempts to kill himself. Will he ever succeed...?
50%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Semi-Tough
(1977)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh
Director: Michael Ritchie
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SEMI-TOUGH is an easygoing satire about two football stars who contend for the same woman, who just happens to be the coach's daughter. The film contains numerous parodies of the self-improvement craze of the 1970s.
51%
from 7 members
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Smokey And The Bandit - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed
Director: Hal Needham
Certificate:
Burt Reynolds stars as the Bandit in this seminal portrayal of rough-ridin', beer-swillin', sheriff-dodgin', trouble-chasin' truckers. The Bandit's has taken on his craziest haul yet: a trailer full of Coors beer. If he can deliver the goods from Texarcana to Atlanta within forty-eight hours, he'll ..read more »
63%
from 31 members
Not available for rental
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Smokey And The Bandit
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed
Director: Hal Needham
Certificate:
Burt Reynolds stars as the Bandit in this seminal portrayal of rough-ridin', beer-swillin', sheriff-dodgin', trouble-chasin' truckers. The Bandit's has taken on his craziest haul yet: a trailer full of Coors beer. If he can deliver the goods from Texarcana to Atlanta within forty-eight hours, he'll ..read more »
69%
from 3,514 members
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Nickelodeon
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Keith
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Certificate:
A film about the making of a film set in 1910. Some big names star in this slapstick comedy that pays some homage to the silent and indeed dangerous visual comedy of Harold Lloyd. Although it cannot replicate the charm and vivacity of the earlier, original works that have inspired it, it is ..read more »
50%
from 129 members
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Silent Movie
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Marty Feldman, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman
Director: Mel Brooks
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Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by ..read more »
63%
from 749 members
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Gator
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Jack Weston, Burt Reynolds, Lauren Hutton
Director: Burt Reynolds
Certificate:
Action-packed sequel to the popular film 'White Lightning'. Now Gator is working with the authorities in their attempt to nab a bunch of corrupt politicians.
53%
from 167 members
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The Longest Yard
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter, James Hampton
Director: Robert Aldrich
Certificate:
In Robert Aldrich's crowd-pleasing classic, Burt Reynolds stars as convict Paul Crewe, a former football player doing time in a prison controlled by two authoritarian sports fanatics, warden Hazen (Eddie Albert) and captain Knauer (Ed Lauter). When Crewe sees that the guards have a top-notch ..read more »
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from 1,295 member
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Shamus
(1973)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John P. Ryan
Director: Buzz Kulik
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Reynolds proves his star-power as McCoy, a tough pool player turned private eye. He's hired by a millionaire to find the killer of a known diamond thief. On the trail, he uncovers a ring of gun runners and illegal arms dealing, along with a willing woman (Dyan Cannon) who thinks her brother is ..read more »
50%
from 5 members
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Deliverance
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Director: John Boorman
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Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (..read more »
70%
from 15,290 members
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Shark
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Burt Reynolds
Director: Samuel Fuller
Certificate:
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In this actioner, a gun runner gets a job as a marine biologist while stranded in the Middle East. He quickly finds out that his new employer and his wife are really treasure seekers looking for bullion. Unfortunately, the gold lies in deep, shark-filled water. Tragically, while the movie was being ..read more »
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from 127 members
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100 Rifles
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
Director: Tom Gries
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Lyedecker (Jim Brown) is the Arizona lawman who travels to Mexico in search of Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds). Joe has made an illegal withdrawal of $6,000 from the band in Phoenix to help finance his tribes's uprising against the Mexican government. Sarita (Raquel Welch) is the local woman who is ..read more »
57%
from 29 members
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Navajo Joe
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Burt Reynold, Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Certificate:
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A band of outlaws, headed by a sullen leader named Duncan, sweeps across the country like the plague, destroying everything in its path, including an entire Indian village. The outlaws arrive in the town of Esperanza, where they are hired by a crooked doctor to hijack a bank train and share in the ..read more »
52%
from 89 members
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The Boy From Wolf Mountain
on DVD
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jason Priestley
Director: Roderick J. Pridy
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Young Aaron McGregor is orphaned and sent to live with an emotionally
distant aunt and uncle who relunctantly take him in while still wrestling
with their own personal demons. To make matters worse, he is picked on
mercilessly by the school bully. When he discovers a wounded baby wolf cub
on ..read more »
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from 56 members
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Burt Reynolds facts
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...ood. He is amply supported by names such as Julianne Moore, Heather Graham and Burt Reynolds to name but a few and they are all wonderful in bringing to life these characte...
