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Shortly after they leave the starting line, J.J. Foyt), a representative of an unnamed federal agency who tries to stop the race because of its environmental effects and safety issues.

Jamie Farr portraying a Middle-Eastern Sheik driving a white Rolls-Royce Silver ShadowĪt the starting line, observing from the shadows, is Mr.

Roger Moore playing the delusional Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., (heir to the 'Goldfarb Girdle Family Fortune') who believes that he is Roger Moore in a silver Aston Martin DB5.

A pair of rednecks played by Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis driving a street-legal replica of Donnie Allison's 1980s NASCAR Pro-Am stock car,.

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Jackie Chan and Michael Hui as drivers of a high-tech, computer-laden Subaru GL 4WD hatchback with a rocket engine.Jill Rivers (Tara Buckman) and Marcie Thatcher (Adrienne Barbeau), two knockout women driving a black Lamborghini Countach.Former open-wheel icon (and Scotch-swilling) Jamie Blake (Dean Martin), and his teammate Morris Fenderbaum (Sammy Davis, Jr.), dressed as Catholic priests and driving a red Ferrari 308 GTS.McClure and Victor Prinzi, driving a souped-up but otherwise authentic Dodge Tradesman Ambulance One at a time, teams drive up to the starters' stand, punch a time card to indicate their time of departure, then take off. Race teams have gathered in Connecticut to start their cross-country race.

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Some of the more interesting aspects of the movie based on real life include the 'ambulance' entry, the 'borrowed car whose owner does not want it above 75 mph entry,' and the 'all female entry'. The movie is based on the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an actual cross-country rally from the Red Ball Garage in New York City (later Darien, CT) to the pier at Redondo Beach, California organized by automotive journalist and the movie's screenwriter Brock Yates. Though Beauty vehemently opposes at first, she eventually warms to the idea of being a participant in the race and to her unlikely "captors." They kidnap attractive young photographer, Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett)-who later in the film earns the nickname "Beauty"-to be their cover patient. In an attempt to appear legitimate to Law enforcement, Victor hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, a frightening, goofy (yet loveable) Physician of questionable skill played by Jack Elam. Together, they participate in the Cannonball Run in an Ambulance-a heavily modified Dodge Tradesman van which, incidentally, was the same vehicle driven by director Hal Needham during the running of the real Cannonball. McClure, and playing his mild-mannered mechanic counterpart, Victor Prinzi, is DeLuise (with a superhero alter ego, Captain Chaos, always waiting in the wings).

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Reynolds plays has-been race car driver J.J.