"How do travesties like this get made," says Roger Ebert in his scathing review. Gene Siskel was even harsher, giving it no stars at all. And star Burt Reynolds wasn't happy with the movie, either.

Reynolds is remembered today as a magnetic movie star—all swagger, smirk and speed—but one of the pivotal stepping stones on his path to cinematic superstardom came in the early 1960s, when he ...

The life of legendary screen idol Burt Reynolds was full of historic highs and devastating lows. Throughout the ‘70s, he was one of the biggest box office attractions with classics such as ...

The 1977 Pontiac Trans Am is a car famous for being driven by Burt Reynolds in the Movie Smokey and the Bandit. It’s the exact car that Texas Native Dave Hershey had the shop’s owner, Dave ...

The movie 'W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings' was filmed in Nashville and made its world permiere on Feb. 4, 1975 at the Loews Crescent Theater.