Smokey and the Bandit

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Sally Fields (left) and Burt Reynolds are pictured during the filming of Smokey and the Bandit (1977). An enormous commercial success, the film was one of several projects that Reynolds brought to Georgia during the 1970s.

Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development.

Smokey and the Bandit

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