Through the Magpie Eye: A Brief Tribute to Burt Reynolds

07.09.2018

The Cannonball Run poster billing Burt Reynolds and Roger Moore, with an illustrated cast round a Maximum Speed 55 sign

Burt Reynolds died last night at the age of 82.

More than just an actor, Burt was a one-man embodiment of a long lost era of CB radio jargon, orangutan chauffeurs, ill-fated canoe trips, elaborate car chases, swamp-based boat leaps, illicit moonshine, helicopter stunts, friendly elephants, stressed out sheriffs, bootleg beer, airborne Pontiacs, bar fights, Stetson hats and big moustaches.

Here’s a few old film posters mostly from the 70s. Have a quick scroll through these, fetch yourself a Coors and dust off that old Smokey and the Bandit VHS.

Rest in peace Burt.

Gator poster reading Burt Reynolds is Gator, a painted couple embracing above a speedboat and a helicopter

Poster reading Burt Reynolds as Hooper, The Greatest Stuntman Alive, with a red car flying over a wrecked bridge

Smokey and the Bandit poster billing Burt Reynolds, with a sheriff, a basset hound and a big black truck

Smokey and the Bandit II poster billing Burt Reynolds, a sheriff and two others atop a ring of cars in the desert

The End poster billing Burt Reynolds: someone grins while holding a pistol to another's head under It'll blow your mind

White Lightning poster billing Burt Reynolds, a red car speeding away from a burning police car and a figure with a rifle

French Hustle poster, La Cité des Dangers, billing Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve, with a bullet-holed target

Skullduggery lobby card billing Burt Reynolds, someone in a red shirt holding a bottle, beside jungle artwork

Sharky's Machine poster, Burt Reynolds in red neon lettering above a painted group, the centre figure holding up a pistol

Deliverance poster billing Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, a hand raising a shotgun out of the water below a canoe

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