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Cannonball Run II
Plot Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka

(Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more name performers than any dozen films together, (Frank Sinatra and the rat pack, Telly Savalas, Susan Anton, Shirley MacLaine, Jackie Chan, Sid Caesar, Marilu Henner, Catherine Bach, etc., etc., etc.), the movie becomes a pastiche and is executed as though no rehearsals were required, or ever happened. A disparate group of people racing to get a lot of money was first successfully exploited in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a much better film, and with just as many cameos, in fact.

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The Gumball Rally  (1976, Chuck Bail)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World  (1963, Stanley Kramer)
Smokey and the Bandit  (1977, Hal Needham)
Smokey and the Bandit II  (1980, Hal Needham)
Smokey and the Bandit 3  (1983, Dick Lowry)
The Cannonball Run  (1981, Hal Needham)
Gone In 60 Seconds  (2000, Dominic Sena)
Rat Race  (2001, Jerry Zucker)
The Junkman  (1982, H.B. Halicki)
Cannonball Run Europe: The Great Escape 
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 Is featured in:    Jackie Chan: Fast, Funny and Furious 
 Is related to:    Around the World in 80 Days  (1956, Michael Anderson)
   Hooper  (1978, Hal Needham)
   Stroker Ace  (1983, Hal Needham)
   Vanishing Point  (1971, Richard Sarafian)
   Two-Lane Blacktop  (1971, Monte Hellman)
   Hostage Hotel  (1999, Hal Needham)
   Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May  (2005, Ruben Fleischer)
   B.L. Stryker: The King of Jazz  (1989, Hal Needham)
 Is preceded by:    The Cannonball Run  (1981, Hal Needham)