Race teams have gathered in Connecticut to start a cross-country car race. One at a time, teams drive up to the starters' stand, punch a time card to indicate their time of departure, then take off. 展开

Cannonball Run featured an all-star ensemble cast, including these actors:
• Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise as racer J.J. McClure and his buddy, Victor Prinzim who … 展开

The film continued director Hal Needham's tradition of showing a gag reel of bloopers during the closing credits (a practice he started with Smokey and the Bandit II). Jackie Chan says this inspired him to do the same at the end of most of his films.
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Box office
A huge commercial success, The Cannonball Run opened June 19, 1981 on 1,673 screens and grossed $11,765,574 in its opening weekend, the fourth highest opening of all time, but this was not enough to beat 展开

On June 25, 1980, 24-year-old German American stuntwoman Heidi von Beltz, a former championship skier, stuntwoman, and aspiring actress, was critically injured in a car crash during production of the film. The original stunt person had left the production to attend an … 展开

The film was followed by two sequels, Cannonball Run II (1983) and Speed Zone (1989). The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II were Dean Martin's last films. The film also featured Jackie Chan in his second Hollywood role after The Big Brawl (1980). 展开

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