Cannonball Run turns 30 years old today. So here's an ad for the first one. All week this week I'll look at ads for movies that were similar to, if not direct inspirations for, Cannonball Run.
I talk about the real life origins of the Cannonball Run movies here.
See the trailer here:
Here are some of the great outtakes from the end credits:
I missed Monday, guys, so I'm giving you a double header to conclude Charles Bronson week. Both movies star Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin.
Here is our first Bronson/Marvin coupling in 1967's The Dirty Dozen, one of the greatest action movies of all time. A no nonsense major (Lee Marvin) recruits a group of military prisoners with life sentences for a suicide mission. The film also stars Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy and Telly Savalas.
This second ad is for 1981's Death Hunt. This movie was Hollywood's depiction of the largest manhunt in Canadian history.
I ran my first marathon yesterday. Well, first and probably only marathon. It was pretty tough. So to celebrate this accomplishment this week we are looking at movies and their ads that are about running. However, movies about running are a little scarce, so I'm also including some movies that have RUN in the title.
This is the ad for Chariots of Fire, famous for its theme song and how spectacularly boring it is. It's about two marathon runners competing in the 1924 Olympics. This ad appeared on Christmas Day, 1981.
