The Longest Yard (Lockdown Edition)
by Robert Aldrich
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Actor: Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter, Eddie Albert, James Hampton, Michael ConradDirector: Robert Aldrich
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Longest Yard (Lockdown Edition)
Movie Review: ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS MOVIES EVER
Summary: 4 Stars
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 level would understandably be high). Anyway, when the final half hour arrives you can't help but cheer, no many how many times you've seen it.
Summary of The Longest Yard (Lockdown Edition)
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
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.System Requirements: Running Time 121 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 097360263848 Manufacturer No: 026384
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