an unusual assortment of pilot converge for a cross country automobile race where break the rule and chaotic car chase be part of the game and and everybody compete for a grand prize in less than legal rally . in the car race participate the protagonist and mcclure ( amiable burt reynolds in similar role to smokey and the bandit film ) and his sidekick schizophrenic victor ( dom deluise who turn in moment into captain chaos ) disguise themselves a paramedic and a duo posing a priest ( the rat pack and sammy davis and dean martin ) and two chinese ( a racer jackie chan and engineer michael hui ) and two lamborghini sexpot babe ( adrienne barbeau and tara ) and of course roger moore in a james bond character alike and several others . along the way they elude police and crash into road block and and meet up with a number of role . this race chase caper be full of witless comedy with tongue in cheek and noisy action and kung fu fighting and gratuitous star cameo and many other thing . this nutty film with extraordinary star stud cast achieve a huge box office hit and one of 1981 top grosser and in spite of it brief amusing moment and ridiculous and embarrassing situation . most interesting for plethora of cameo a peter fonda and valerie perrine and jamie farr and jack elam and many others . at the end there be out take such popular and usual subsequently . it follow by a languid sequel and less than illustrious it predecessor and with similar actor and artist equipment and add more explosive girl a marilu henner and catherine bach and susan anton and furthermore more rat pack a frank sinatra and shirley mclaine . booth of them be badly direct by the ex stunt hal needham . other film deal with mindless cross country wheel spin and be the following represent ¨cannoball ( 1976 ) ¨ by paul bartel with robert carradine and mary wonorov and joe dante and ¨death race 2000¨ again by paul bartel with david carradine and silvester stallone and simone griffith ¨gumball rally ( 1976 ) ¨by chuck bail with michael sarrazin gary busey and raul julia and among them .