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The Longest Yard 1974
In this roughand tumble movie, actually filmed onlocation at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden wholl gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards semipro football team to the national championship. Burt Reynolds plays onetime 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 Crewes Mean Machine. But the license to pound on their hated guards is a big incentive for murderers and thieves to learn strategy.
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedydrama 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, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The film follows a former NFL player recruiting a group of prisoners and playing football against their guards. It features many reallife football players, including Ray Nitschke of the Green Bay Packers.
