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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.
- Paul Bartel
- 2 min
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. The film is one of two released in 1976 that were based on a real illegal cross-continent road race that took place for a number of years in the United States (the ...
- $780,000
- David A. Axelrod
- Samuel W. Gelfman
Beach Bunnies, The (1976) David Carradine stars as Coy “Cannonball” Buckman, a onetime top racer who landed in prison following a car wreck that left his old girlfriend dead. Eager for redemption - and the race’s $100,000 prize money - Coy enters the Cannonball race alongside such peculiar characters as Perman Waters (Gerrit Graham), a ...
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An article in the Nov 2002 Car and Driver states that the race in Cannonball is a real illegal road race that had been held five times between 1971 and 1979. The full name is the "Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash." It is named after Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker, a car and motorcycle racer from the 1920s.
Years active. 1968–2012. Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1948) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. [1] He is best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two Star Trek series. He starred in Used Cars with Kurt Russell and voiced Franklin ...
YearTitleRole2012Cove RoadThe Hitchhiker2008Stick It in DetroitCaptain John Willoughby2007Mr. Halcón2005Building GirlMr. MinardSynopsis: An ex-con named Cannonball (John Carradine) — whose unscrupulous brother (Dick Miller) has placed a huge bet on him with a menacing bookie (Paul Bartel) — is accompanied by his girlfriend (Veronica Hamel) on an underground cross-country race, competing against his best friend Zippo (Archie Hahn), a van of three gutsy waitresses (Mary Woronov, Glynn Rubin, and Diane Lee Hart), a ...
Cannonball's main competition is the borderline psychotic Redman ('Deliverance's Bill McKinney), but the race also includes Cannonball's sidekick Zippo (Archie Hahn), his parole officer girlfriend (Veronica Hammel), a bus full of babes led by frequent Bartel co-star Mary Woronov, an aspiring country singer (Gerrit Graham), and surfer types ...
