The Cannonball Run brings Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and an all-star cast to the starting line of the ultimate auto race., a madcapcross country scramble that roars full speed ahead. Hal Needham, the director of such supped up hits as "Smokey and the Bandit, " "Hooper" and "Smokey and the Bandit II" is at the helm of a wild action-comedy inspired by an actual event: The Cannonball SeaTo Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash., an anything goes, all stops out and thoroughly illegal competition that has grown to legendary proportions in the last ten years.