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The Longest Yard
| Actor(s): Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert Director(s): Robert Aldrich 38 |
Movie Details
| MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 01/30/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 1 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Prison Film, Sports Comedy See Also: The Longest Yard [Lockdown Edition], Longest Yard [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint] |
DVD Synopsis
Ex-football star Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert). Strong-armed into forming an inmate football team, Crewe manages to instill an esprit de corps previously lacking in the prisoners' lives. Besides, they now have the chance to beat the guards' football team, headed by the hissable Capt. Knauer (Ed Lauter). Hazen orders Crewe to throw the match; otherwise, Crewe will never get the pardon he's been promised. The football game that follows consumes nearly a third of the picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Editorial Review of DVD
Like Steven Spielberg's excellent, oddly forgotten Sugarland Express, The Longest Yard manages to be crowd-pleasing entertainment and a tough, uncompromising movie at the same time. While The Longest Yard has a devoted following and shows up on TV often, this Paramount DVD is still a welcome release. The print has been cleaned up considerably (previous video versions were incredibly faded) and the anamorphic widescreen transfer shows off the visual flair of director Robert Aldrich and his longtime cinematographer, Joseph Biroc, instead of hampering it the way that previous versions had. The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track comes in the original mono and the sound mix is right on the mark. While fans of The Longest Yard will have to wait for a DVD edition that comes with extras, this Paramount release has the movie looking and sounding better than at any time since 1974, when it first hit the screen. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide
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