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I worked on a few really strange films that had long, convoluted protracted post-production histories where they kept editing and re-editing, reshooting, editing and re-editing, reshooting, editing and re-editing. Getting the studios to cooperate is tough, too. A friend of mine wants to do a book on 'Movies Still On the Shelf,' but has yet to find a publisher who will do it. There are some weird, weird, weird films that floated around where they got X number of weeks through, then somebody looked at a rough cut, freaked out, and everybody got fired.

instead of a working at a car dealership.

Dusty Trials is still in the film but plays a radio D.J.

After Enis confirming their deal plan with him is 'a go', the camera pans up to reveal that the 'Bandit' is played by Gleason. The Enis' are enter a bedroom where 'the Bandit' is in the shower with 'a blonde bombshell'.

Gleason first appears as 'the Bandit' about 32 pages into the script.

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Gleason plays the role of the Bandit mute, except when he's imitating Renyolds' laugh and at the end of the movie when he paraphrases the famous line from Gone With The Wind: 'Frankly, Dusty, I don't give a damn.' This angle is all played straight too, no one questions that the Bandit now looks like Jackie Gleason. As in Gleason is playing two roles as two different people in the film: Sheriff Buford T. However, unlike the released version of the film where Jerry Reed's character Cledus is pretending to be the 'Bandit', Gleason in the script IS the bandit. The key difference being that Gleason plays the Bandit role. Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (original Jackie Gleason footage 1983) - The Lost Media WikiДЄccording to the script is pretty much the same as the released film. I recently read the script again and added details on The Lost Media Wiki: Now you can see for yourself, what could have been one of the weirdest mainstream Hollywood films of the 1980's. However during initial test screenings, audiences were confused and Jerry Reed agreed to rejoin the cast to play the Bandit.ДЄlthough we have lost the imdb forums, the script can be found on this forum here via a Megaload link (4th post down) (providing this doesn't violate the terms of this forum). So the, admittly strange, idea was that Jackie Gleason's Buford T Justice character would impersonate Reyond's Bandit to win the Enos' wager. For those unfamiliar with the premise, the original cast of Burt Reynolds, Sally Feild and Jerry Feild where not going to return for this sequel. This may be our only look at one of the world's most infamous lost films next to The Day The Clown Cried.

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He died on January 8, 2021, from complications from Parkinson's disease, and from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), possibly from hits taken from his days in college / pro football, as many in contact sports, such as football or boxing have suffered from after ending their athletic careers.On the imdb forums (R.I.P) a PDF of the shooting script for the third Smokey and the Bandit film was posted earlier this year and it looks legit too. Mike married actress Cheryl Sweeney November 1984. Henry also portrayed 'Sergeant Kowalski' in The Green Berets and the corrupt sheriff 'Blue Tom' Hendricks in Rio Lobo.ДЄfter contracting Parkinson's disease, he retired from acting.

Another football-playing role was as one of the members of the gang who kidnap 'Larry Bronco' (Larry Csonka) in an episode of 'The Six Million Dollar Man'. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit films opposite Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, after portraying a corrupt prison guard (opposite Reynolds) in The Longest Yard.

Henry is also best known to movie audiences for playing opposite Jackie Gleason as 'Junior', the dim-witted son of Sherriff Buford T. Henry turned down the lead of the subsequent Tarzan television series, which then went to actor Ron Ely. His most prominent role was as Tarzan in three 1960s movies, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), Tarzan and the Great River (1967), and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968), that were all filmed back-to-back in 1965.

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Henry's football career was as a collegiate linebacker for USC, and then as a professional player for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers (1958вЂ“1961) and the Los Angeles Rams (1962вЂ“1964) led him to be noticed by Warner Brothers Studios.