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    Longest Yard, The (1974)

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    Burt Reynolds is disgraced former pro football quarterback Paul Crewe who is sent to prison on a short-term sentence after a drunken night to remember.

    The prison is run by Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert), a football nut who spies an opportunity to utilise Crewe’s ability at the sport to enhance the prison guards team skills.

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    After initially declining to help, Crewe is swayed (under threat of a longer prison sentence when he is provoked into assaulting a guard) into coaching the Warden’s team and putting together a team of inmates to take on the guards in a one-off match.

    The preparations for the match and the match itself take up the second half of the movie, with Crewe getting his convict players to check out the guards’ x-rays and medical reports for details of easy to break bones and other weaknesses, and using sex and bribery to obtain information.

    Released in some markets as The Mean Machine.

    Paul Crewe
    Burt Reynolds
    Warden Hazen
    Eddie Albert
    Captain Knauer
    Ed Lauter
    Nate Scarboro
    Michael Conrad
    Caretaker
    James Hampton
    Granville
    Harry Caesar
    Pop
    John Steadman
    Unger
    Charles Tyner
    Rassmeusen
    Mike Henry
    Ice Man
    Jim Nicholson
    Warden’s Secretary
    Bernadette Peters
    Mawabe
    Pervis Atkins
    Rotka
    Tony Cacciotti
    Melissa
    Anitra Ford

    Director
    Robert Aldrich

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