Television premiere Saturday, August 6 at 10/9c on CMT. The Bandit world premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, Nashville Film Festival and Bonnaroo Arts and
Music Festival.
The Bandit is a film about '70s superstar Burt Reynolds, his best friend, roommate and stunt-double Hal Needham, and the making of their unlikely smash-hit Smokey and the Bandit. The film tells the action-packed story of the making of Smokey, while tracing the vivid personal journeys of Reynolds and Needham from obscurity to stardom and highlighting one of the most extraordinary relationships in Hollywood history. Featuring new interviews with Reynolds, rare archive material, including footage from Reynolds' personal archive, as well as candid interviews with the late Hal Needham, the documentary tells an exhilarating and moving story about loyalty, friendship and creative risk.
