The Longest Yard
Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is a former star pro football quarterback, who walks out on his wealthy girlfriend Melissa in Palm Beach, Florida. He takes her Maserati-engined Citroën SM without permission and leads police on a car chase, choreographed by Hal Needham. Crewe is arrested and sentenced to eighteen months in Citrus State Prison.
The convicts disrespect Crewe because he was dismissed from the National Football League for point shaving. A sadistic warden, Rudolph Hazen, is a football fanatic who manages a semi-pro team made up of prison guards and wants Crewe to help coach the team and clinch a championship. Responding to pressure from the guards' leader and coach, Captain Wilhelm Knauer, Crewe initially refuses, but eventually relents and agrees to form a prisoner team to play the guards' team in an exhibition "tune-up" game. Crewe forms a team that includes Samson, a former professional weightlifter, and Connie Shokner, a serial killer and martial arts expert.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sports |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Alan P. Horowitz, Albert S. Ruddy |
| Directed By: | Robert Aldrich |
| Written By: | Tracy Keenan Wynn, Albert S. Ruddy |
| Cast: | Bill Rampley, Bernadette Peters, Michael Conrad, Anitra Ford, Richard Kiel, Ed Lauter, Chuck Hayward, James Hampton, Robert Tessier, Tony Reese, Burt Reynolds, J. Don Ferguson, Jim Nicholson, Tony Cacciotti, Dino Washington, Joe Kapp, Charles Tyner, Lance Fuller, Pepper Martin, Harry Caesar, Alfie Wise, Ray Nitschke, Sonny Shroyer, John Steadman, Pervis Atkins, Ernie Wheelwright, Mike Henry, Joe Dorsey, Eddie Albert, Michael Fox, Mort Marshall |
| In Theaters: | Aug 30, 1974 |
| Runtime: | 2 hours 1 minute |
| Production: | Paramount Pictures, Albert S. Ruddy Productions, Long Road Productions |
| Box Office: | $43,008,075 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
