THE CANNONBALL RUN brings an all-star cast including Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. to the starting line of the ultimate auto race, a madcap cross-country scramble that roars full-speed ahead. Hal Needham, the director of such souped-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 Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an anything-goes, all stops-out – and thoroughly illegal – competition that has grown to legendary proportions.