THE LONGEST YARD (1974)

 

Directed by: Robert Aldrich

Based on a story by: Albert S. Ruddy

Screenplay by: Tracy Keenan Wynn

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Jim Nicholson, Bernadette Peters, Pepper Martin, Robert Tessier, Richard Kiel, Anitra Ford, Ray Nitschke, George Jones, Joe Kapp, Pervis Atkins, Ernie Wheelwright, Sonny Shroyer, Ray Ogden, Sonny Sixkiller, Michael Fox

121 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sports violence, nudity)

PLOT:

Ex-football player Paul Crewe spirals out after being caught shaving points to gamble on games. Some bad choices lead to Crewe getting sent to prison where the warden has his eye on him to coach their semi pro team. After refusing, at the lead guards forceful request, Crewe finds himself in the dregs of the prison workforce. Finally, the warden decides to use him in a different capacity and tasks him with putting together an all-inmate football team to play a tune up game with the guards. Through trials and tribulations, Crewe gets his team together and puts the guards through their paces in an all-out roughed out guard on inmate football game.

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