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Hooper is a 1978 action-comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, based loosely on the experiences of director Hal Needham, a one-time stuntman in his own right. It serves as a tribute to stuntmen and stuntwomen in what was at one time an underrecognized profession.
Co-starring in the film are Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, Robert Klein, James Best and Adam West.
Sonny Hooper (Burt Reynolds), known as "Hollywood's Greatest Stuntman," is Adam West's stunt double on the action film The Spy Who Laughed at Danger. Hooper's on-set antics and wisecracks are a trial for egotistical director Roger Deal (Robert Klein), and even more so for Roger's bossy, obnoxious (but cowardly) assistant Tony (Alfie Wise), who gets Hooper in trouble with the Humane Society over a stunt involving a dog. Years of stunt-inflicted abuse of his body are fast catching up with Hooper, with the numerous stunts (referred to in the movie business as "gags") and his use of painkillers beginning to take their toll.
Hooper 1978 - Rocket powered 1978 Pontiac Transam jumps bridge
Hooper(1978)
Hooper [1978] - helicopter jump
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field in Hooper (1978)
Hooper 1978 TV Spot
Hooper Opening Scene
Nothin' Like the Life (of a Hollywood Stuntman)
Hooper (1978) - Official teaser trailer (Portuguese VHS RENTAL rip)
You're Wrong!
Hooper movie Stuntman 55 backwards
The stunt driving that climaxes with a spectacular jump in the rocket powered Pontiac Transam.
"The greatest stuntman alive!" The trailer for Hooper(1978) starring Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field, Brian Keith, John Marley, Robert Klein, James Best, Adam West, and Alfie Wise. Directed by Hal Needham.
Hooper 1978 starring : Burt Reynolds, Sally Field
A year after the mammoth success of his first movie Smokey and the Bandit, former stuntman turned writer-director Hal Needham followed it with the more mature, reflective stuntman film Hooper (1978), a pinnacle work of 70's American populist cinema that reunited Burt Reynolds and Sally Field and stands among the best work of each.
August 1978 TV spot for "Hooper" director Hal Needham's tribute to movie stuntmen starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Brian Keith, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Klein, James Best and Adam West
What I feel like every time I get dressed for a motorcycle ride.
from the movie "Hooper" (1978)
Original "Hooper" (1978) teaser trailer. Ripped from an original Portuguese VHS rental video copy of "A Clockwork Orange" (distributed by Warner Home Video). Directed by Hal Needham Starring Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field... Trailer subtitled in Portuguese. Ripped from VHS tape to HQ VIDEO file. IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077696/?ref_=nv_sr_3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: NO copyright infringement intended here. I do not own any copyright rights for this video! This video has NOT BEEN submitted for monetisation. http://www.twitter.com/divinenothuman http://www.myspace.com/divinenothuman
Burt Reynolds as "Hooper" on the way to the palomino club driving 55 backwards so Jocko can have a beer handed to him from the other car.
They come out of nowhere
And push you outta control
Perplexed you feel
Your senses scream they're real
Obscuring thoughts are all around you
The shadows grow beneath your scared, sweat skin
[CHORUS]
Welcome to the horror show
You realized there is nowhere to run
The unknown came to fright
Paranoia is guiding your life
Welcome to the horror show
You realized there is nowhere to run
The unknown came to fright
Obsession is ruling your mind
Alone, there's no resort
Conspiring friends you can't trust
Trapped by your instincts
Nobody around to believe
Wide eyes are always all around you
The shadows grow beneath your scared, sweat skin
[CHORUS]
Helpless you crawl
Insanity beast devours
Voices from within
Announcing the final hour
[Solo]
Corroding inside your brain,
Thoughts that won't give up
Devising anxiety, seducing your soul
Evidences so unreal, eyes and ears misled to feel betrayed
The nightmare now is on