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Cannonball (stylized on-screen as Cannonball!, and released theatrically in the UK as Carquake) is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine.
Sep 8, 1976 · Cannonball!: Directed by Paul Bartel. With David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham. Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
Cannonball! (1976) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
"Cannonball" comes from Roger Corman's New World Pictures, which gave us last summer's "Death Race 2000," not to mention this summer's "Eat My Dust." Corman must have a sweetheart deal with a used-car lot; he wipes out more cars in these movies than Carter has peanuts.
Watch Cannonball with a subscription on Prime Video. Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning...
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Cannonball, also known as Carquake, is a 1976 film starring David Carradine. The film is one of two released in 1976 (the other being The Gumball Rally) that were based on a real illegal cross-continent road race that took place for a number of years in the United States.
Oct 14, 2004 · The film stars David Carradine as Coy "Cannonball" Buckman. It's a far cry from his role as the Frankenstein character in Death Race 2000 since Cannonball Buckman is the kind of guy who will take a bad rap and spend time in jail just to spare a friend, Zippo (Archie Hahn), a worse fate.
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse.
An illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York promises the winner 100,000 dollars. Coy "Cannonball" Buckman, the race leader, drags his girlfriend, Linda, along for the ride; while the other racers barrel along, trying to outsmart Cannonball at every turn and exit ramp.
'Cannonball' tells the story of a motley crew of determined racers as they battle against each other in a cross country road race with no rules. It doesn't really need a plot. This film is about one thing and one thing only: cars, and the wondrous ways in which they can be wrecked.
