Stroker Ace

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(The slogan on Stroker's car reads: "The Fastest Chicken in the South.") Stroker is a composite." "It was made for his fans which, for a producer, is not a bad reason to make a movie. He is unaware that Stroker is moving up through the field in an effort to win. Fried-chicken mogul Clyde Torkel, along with his chauffeur, Arnold, and newly appointed director of marketing and public relations, Pembrook Feeny, convince Stroker and his chief mechanic, Lugs Harvey, to sign up with him. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 5 of 8 people found this review helpful. It offers a comical, honest view of the sport through the life of Stroker Ace, who has secured a ride from a novice car owner intent on leveraging every ounce of Stroker… Two days later he called and said 'Needham, I want to do that film'. I always go for the subject. He got Hal Needham, who owned a NASCAR racing team with Reynolds, to direct. I'm not really that financially-oriented.

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Burt Reynolds plays an arrogant, womanizing and mischievous Southern race-car driver in this fast-paced comedy that is … Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. Producer Walter Wood read the novel in 1978 and decided it would make a film. Use the HTML below. Directed by Hal Needham. 1 at the box office, and during that period, there has seldom been a good review of anything he's done." The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team. With Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.Dad shows a piece of jewelry to Stroker and Pembrook

Stroker Ace (1983) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It offers a comical, honest view of the sport through the life of Stroker Ace, who has secured a ride from a novice car owner intent on leveraging every ounce of Stroker's fame to sell chicken. Making Wood said "For the past five years, Burt has been No. It's definitely better than Driven and far less effective than Days of Thunder. Overlooking his contract by not reading its specifics, Stroker begins a new life as the commercial face for the Chicken Pit fast-food restaurants. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government. Realizing that he is locked into a bad deal, Stroker devises a plan with Lugs to get out of it. I knew that they'd know about the milieu and that they'd teach me. The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.

They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. I hadn't been laying a trap for him. I've never been involved in so commercial a movie. A ladies' man, Stroker tries to seduce the beautiful Pembrook, who is a Sunday School teacher, does not drink, and is a virgin. Torkel is on to Stroker, though, and allows his antics because he sees the racer as his big ticket to regional fame by promoting the Chicken Pit franchise. It's definitely better than Driven and far less effective than Days of Thunder.

Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He ends up with 6 orphan kids on his way to the race. With the news that he is free from the contract, Stroker wins the championship in spectacular fashion by flipping his car over as he crosses the finish line. The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide. However, for racing movie fans, Stroker Ace is hard to beat.