The Longest Yard R
It's Survival of the Fiercest and Funniest
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2017
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert & Ed Lauter | |
Performer: | James Hampton, Michael Conrad, Sonny Sixkiller, John Steadman, Dino Washington, Ray Nitschke & Harry Caesar | |
Directed by | Robert Aldrich | |
Edited by | Michael Luciano | |
Screenwriting by | Tracy Keenan Wynn | |
Composition by | Frank De Vol | |
Story by | Albert S. Ruddy | |
Produced by | Albert S. Ruddy | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph F. Biroc |
Entertainment Reviews:
Part burlesque, part social commentary, it's a full out entertainment movie, saved from quick money facileness by the extraordinary "bad boy" comedy performance by Burt Reynolds and the quirky, offbeat direction of Robert Aldrich.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: B+ --
The original has just the right mix of toughness and humor. Burt Reynolds was born to play incarcerated quarterback Paul Crewe.
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FulvueDrive-in.com
Rating: C+ --
Pardon me if I wasn't blown away by all its simplistic machinations and lighthearted appeal to one's baser instincts.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
The football sequences are excellent, which makes sense given that half of the actors were college or pro ballers themselves.
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Bullz-Eye.com
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Though The Yard is a terrible picture, I'll admit to having unwillingly enjoyed some of the football practice and parts of the final game -- even though it's much too long.
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New York Times
If it ultimately descends into macho nonsense, then that's all part of the fun.
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Film4
Product Description:
In Robert Aldrich's crowd-pleasing classic, Burt Reynolds stars as convict Paul Crewe, a former football player doing time in a prison controlled by two authoritarian sports fanatics, warden Hazen (Eddie Albert) and captain Knauer (Ed Lauter). When Crewe sees that the guards have a top-notch football team, he takes it upon himself to form a squad with his fellow dispirited inmates. As the prisoners come together, galvanized by the chance to challenge the guards, they begin to experience a sense of purpose and solidarity--and Hazen doesn't like it. With the Penitentiary Bowl approaching, Hazen pressures Crewe to throw the big game. Crewe must choose between his own freedom and supporting the newfound dignity of his convict teammates.
Aldrich brings to THE LONGEST YARD the same humor-spiked, antihero-driven feel for rousing adventure shown in THE DIRTY DOZEN and creates a film that matches gridiron favorites NORTH DALLAS FORTY and SEMI-TOUGH while also comparing to classics such as ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, STALAG 17, and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION that reveal the soul-crushing aspects of life under lock and key. Like the latter films, Aldrich's darkly funny, bone-crunching drama succeeds most enduringly by showing the small, barbed, fiercely beautiful refusal of the spirit to surrender.
Aldrich brings to THE LONGEST YARD the same humor-spiked, antihero-driven feel for rousing adventure shown in THE DIRTY DOZEN and creates a film that matches gridiron favorites NORTH DALLAS FORTY and SEMI-TOUGH while also comparing to classics such as ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, STALAG 17, and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION that reveal the soul-crushing aspects of life under lock and key. Like the latter films, Aldrich's darkly funny, bone-crunching drama succeeds most enduringly by showing the small, barbed, fiercely beautiful refusal of the spirit to surrender.
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Movie Lover: Alan Willard from
SALEM, OR US -- July, 19, 2020
If you are a football and/or Bert Reynolds fan or just s fan of great comedy, this one is for you.????????
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- Sales Rank: 6,641
- UPC: 032429257451
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