- Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton
- Directors: Robert Aldrich
- Writers: Albert S. Ruddy, Tracy Keenan Wynn
- Producers: Alan P. Horowitz, Albert S. Ruddy
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Paramount
- VHS Release Date: April 1 2004
- Run Time: 121 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 630021656X
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #12,627 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sonny Shroyer did TOO appear in this movie!,
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This review is from: Longest Yard, the (VHS Tape)
To the second reviewer, Sonny Shroyer, or "Enos" of Dukes of Hazzard fame, was indeed in this movie! And if you really want another piece of trivia, James Hampton, who played Caretaker, served for one episode as Enos' boss on Dukes. Hampton played Sheriff Buster Moon, who subbed for James' Best Rosco character for an episode in the second season. Shroyer plays "Sonny," who is the retarted player on "Mean Machine." You may remember it is a cheap shot that the guards give "Sonny" that leads Paul Crewe to his decision to re-enter the game. By the way, this is probably the best football movie ever made. And certainly I would hope it would inspire any of you to attend or support your local minor league football team- and every community has one. The players who play minor league football come from incredible backgrounds- everything from heroic concentration camp survivors (yes, as recently as last year Steve Moser, an Eastern European immigrant, was playing minor league football as a kicker at the age of 69) to college stars looking for a second chance to out and out thugs who realize now they should have worked harder academically are out there. The sacrifices these players make just to appear in a game are great, as is their expenses. But who knows? David Dinkins of the NY Giants was playing minor league football just year. The talent can be there. If you're one of these guys who long for players who play for the love of the game, then no place, not even high school football, can compete with minor league football.
5.0 out of 5 stars
best football movie ever,
This review is from: The Longest Yard (Widescreen) (DVD)
This is the best football movie ever. One of the best prison movies also but not the best. Shawshank redemption orBirdman of Alcatraz the best. Glad to see it came out after a hiatus.
4.0 out of 5 stars
comedy,drama, and football,
By takes a turn for the worse as he find himself in jail.The warden(Eddie Albert)has a sadistic mean streak.he petitions Crewe to form a football team from the inmates to play against the guards(a semi pro team)in four weeks as a warm up match before the semi pro season begins.the warden assumes an easy brutal victory against the inmates.But Crewe and his ragtag bunch have other ideas.this movie has everything,lots of one liners,some very funny situations.even some drama,and action.oh,yeah,there's football too.i would classify this movie as a dramedy,a drama/comedy hybrid,with some action.i laughed quite a bit.the football scenes,especially the hits, are very authentic and there is a lot of violence,though nothing very graphic.overall,the Longest Yard is a very good movie,that is more than a football movie.even if you don't like football,you should still enjoy this film. a strong 4/5
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