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30 August 1974 (USA) moreTagline:
It's Survival of the Fiercest and Funniest morePlot:
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. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Sandler To Star in 'Longest Yard' Remake (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 28 January 2004)
Vinnie's Reality Kick For Co-stars
(From WENN. 8 August 2001)
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Football and prison is a recipe for brutal mirth. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Reynolds | ... | Paul Crewe | |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Warden Hazen | |
| Ed Lauter | ... | Captain Knauer | |
| Michael Conrad | ... | Nate Scarboro | |
| James Hampton | ... | Caretaker (as Jim Hampton) | |
| Harry Caesar | ... | Granville | |
| John Steadman | ... | Pop | |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Unger | |
| Mike Henry | ... | Rassmeusen | |
| Jim Nicholson | ... | Ice Man | |
| Bernadette Peters | ... | Miss Toot | |
| Pervis Atkins | ... | Mawabe | |
| Tony Cacciotti | ... | Rotka | |
| Anitra Ford | ... | Melissa Gaines | |
| Michael Fox | ... | Announcer |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
121 min | Argentina:122 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
Finland:K-15 (uncut) (2005) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1995) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1975) | Netherlands:12 | West Germany:18 (nf) (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Norway:16 (1975) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1987) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:RFun Stuff
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The climactic football game takes up 47 minutes of running time. moreGoofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Melissa warns Paul not to touch her Maserati. The car was sold in the US as a Citroen/Maserati SM, a Citroen with a Maserati engine. The owner would be more likely to refer to it as Maserati. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Melissa: How long do we have to keep watching this crap?... Only a moron can sit and watch two football games, one after the other.
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Born Free moreFAQ
when the Mean Machine score their first touchdown, they follow it up with a sucessful conversion (getting the ball into the end one again) and are awarded 7 points for the play. Shouldn't they get 8?more
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Disgraced former pro football quarterback Paul Crewe is sent to prison after a drunken night to remember. The prison is run by Warden Hazen, a football nut who spies an opportunity to utilise Crewe's ability at the sport to enhance the prison guards team skills. After initially declining to help, Crewe is swayed into putting together a team of convicts to take on the guards in a one off match, thieves, murderers and psychopaths collectively come together to literally, beat the guards, but Crewe also has his own personal demons to exorcise.
This violent, but wonderfully funny film has many things going for it, directed with style by the gifted hands of Robert Aldrich, The Longest Yard cheekily examines the harshness of gridiron and fuses it with the brutality of the penal system. The script from Tracy Keenan Wynn is a sharp as a tack, and Aldrich's use of split screens and slow motion sequences bring it all together very nicely indeed. I would also like to comment on the editing from Michael Luciano, nominated for the Oscar in that department, it didn't win, but in my honest opinion it's one of the best edited pictures from the 70s.
Taking the lead role of Crewe is Burt Reynolds, here he is at the peak of his powers {perhaps never better} and has star appeal positively bristling from every hair on his rugged chest. It's a great performance, believable in the action sequences {he was once a halfback for Florida}, and crucially having the comic ability to make Wynn's script deliver the necessary mirth quota. What is of most interest to me is that Crewe is a less than honourable guy, the first 15 minutes of the film gives us all we need to know about his make up, but much like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest the following year, The Longest Yard has us rooting for it's main protagonist entering the home straight, and that is something of a testament to Reynolds' charm and charisma.
The films crowning glory is the football game itself, taking up three parts of an hour, the highest compliment i can give it is to say that one doesn't need to be a fan of the sport to enjoy this final third. It's highly engaging as a comedy piece whilst also being octane inventive as an action junkie series of events. A number of former gridiron stars fill out both sides of the teams to instill a high believability factor into the match itself, and the ending is a pure rewarding punch the air piece of cinema. 9/10