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The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Mike Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
- $2.9 million
- Frank De Vol
- Albert S. Ruddy
The Longest Yard: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad. A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
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- 4 min
- Robert Aldrich
Nov 28, 2018 · But The Longest Yard is really Reynolds's moment in the sun. During the mid-1970s, Reynolds was ably balancing the good ol' boy side of his career (White Lightning, , etc.) and the more actorly side of his career (Deliverance, At Long Last Love, etc.). You might say, like Deliverance, The Longest Yard tapped both sides. By the early 1980s, the ...
- Robert Aldrich, Hal Needham
- Burt Reynolds
Advertise With Us. An ex-football star doing time is forced by the warden to organize a team of inmates to play against his own line-up of guards. The warden tries to blackmail him into throwing ...
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- Burt Reynolds
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Robert Aldrich. Director. Tracy Keenan Wynn. Screenplay. Albert S. Ruddy. Story. Reviews. A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
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