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The Longest Yard (1974)

R  |   |  Comedy, Crime, Drama  |  30 August 1974 (USA)
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A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

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Caretaker (as Jim Hampton)
Harry Caesar ...
Granville
John Steadman ...
Pop
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Mike Henry ...
Rassmeusen
Jim Nicholson ...
Ice Man
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Warden's Secretary
Pervis Atkins ...
Mawabe
Tony Cacciotti ...
Rotka
Anitra Ford ...
Melissa
Michael Fox ...
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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. Written by Matt Heffernan <msh6880@cs.rit.edu>

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Golpe Baixo  »

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SEK 2,044,304 (Sweden)
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While they are playing the football game, towards the beginning and again as the game is won, they show inmates celebrating in their cells, but reuse the video from the earlier scenes when Unger had booby trapped Crew's jail cell light bulb to explode. The smoke from the earlier fire can be seen filling the far end of the shot in all the scenes. See more »

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Melissa: How long do we have to keep watching this crap?... Only a moron can sit and watch two football games, one after the other.
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Real men; no schtick
3 January 2000 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

"The Longest Yard" does not depend on the tiresome innocent-man-behind-bars schtick to evoke the inmates' humanity. Crew, Caretaker, et al are not men because they have been falsely accused, but because they maintain their manhood under conditions of mental and physical cruelty. Their humanity isn't a plot or script convention, but the core of their character. It's refreshing to discover that you're cheering for criminals despite their unapologetic bravado. IMHO, the best "prison" film ever made.


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