The Longest Yard (1974 film)

The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film follows inmates at a prison who play football against their guards. Burt Reynolds stars as Paul Wrecking Crewe.

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 Maseratiengined Citron SM without permission and leads police on a car chase, choreographed by Hal Needham. Crewe is eventually caught and sentenced tomonths 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 semipro 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 tuneup game. Crewe forms a team that includes Samson, a former professional weightlifter, and Connie Shokner, a serial killer and martial arts expert. ........

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