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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 9781415711606
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415711607
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 20237
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In this rough-and tumble movie, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to the national championship. Burt Reynolds plays one-time pro quarterback Paul Crewe, now behind bars for leading State Police on a wild chase in a 'borrowed car' and more. He agrees to organize a prisoners' team to play the guards. The warden intercedes to assure that his goon squad will meet only passive resistance from Crewe's 'Mean Machine.' But the license to pound on their hated guards is a big incentive for murderers and thieves to learn strategy.
Amazon.com:
Director Robert Aldrich had a knack for depicting outsiders with originality and authenticity. Much like The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard is a popular fable about integrity and group unity. It possesses a requisite toughness along with the loneliness that accompanies the outsider status. Compromise is never easy in an Aldrich film. There's always a bitter price to pay.
Burt Reynolds, in peak form, plays a former pro quarterback ostracized for shaving points. After beating up his girlfriend and resisting arrest, Reynolds winds up in prison, where he's taunted by warden Eddie Albert to help his semiprofessional team of guardsmen win a championship. Naturally, the inmates despise Reynolds, and naturally he redeems himself in one of the great movie football matches of all time. --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS MOVIES EVER
Much, much better than the later Adam Sandler version, the movie was so good it gave Burt enough leash to go out and make stinker after stinker for about a decade.
The LONGEST YARD is easily one of the best sports movies ever, from my point of view only surpassed by BREAKING AWAY. By now it looks quiet dated (look at the cool remote control!) and I'm still wondering how they were able to convict Crewe on drunk driving when he dumped the car in the water and was arrested in a bar (where is alcohol ... Read More
Rating: - Aldrich's film could go all the waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy...............
Beginnings prove once again a good place to start. After watching the UK's "Mean Machine", I was upset that I never watched this original film before the other. I wanted to see the roots, where Vinnie Jones got his inspiration, and how a film about soccer can relate to that about football. I was going in blind, so quickly I gobbled up this original, and I must say, Sandler didn't do Crewe justice. "The Longest Yard", released in 1974, is a film full of gambling, racism, and dedicated stereotypes, but ... Read More
Rating:  - A Little Humor, A Lot of Football, A Lot of Heart
Disgraced point shaving QB Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) life goes wrong after a drunken argument with girlfriend leads to Grand Theft Auto charge and a stint in a rural Georgia prison. The inmates (who have an "honor amongst theives" code) and the guards despise Crewes for his point shaving and his adjustment to life in stir is not well as he sufffers confrontations, harsh work details and general grief from most everyone.
Reluctant at first, Crewes agrees to quarterback the inmate football team in a ... Read More
Rating: - The Longest Yard
Robert Aldrich's crowd-pleasing prison/football comedy makes us favor the irreverent convict-outsiders (played by a who's who of 1970s NFL stars) while disdaining the opposing bulls, led by ruthless warden Hazen and the vicious Capt. Knauer (Ed Lauter). Real-life collegiate player Burt Reynolds scored his first post-"Deliverance" hit with his assured, charismatic portrayal of Paul Crewe. Aldrich and Oscar-winning editor Michael Luciano infuse energy and urgency into the climactic game itself, spanning a whopping ... Read More
Rating: - CLASSIC BURT REYNOLDS FILM FORGET THE REMAKE!
This a classic football movie. Forget the remake this is the real deal! The DVD has a great transfer and some cool extras.
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