The Longest Yard (1974)2h01
Comedy · Drama · Crime
Director Robert Aldrich (7.2 avg)
Also directed The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, and 27 more
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
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Cast
Burt Reynolds
Eddie Albert
Ed Lauter
Michael Conrad
James Hampton
Harry Caesar
John Steadman
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