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The Longest Yard
a.k.a. The Mean Machine Director: Robert Aldrich Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert

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  • DVD Release Date: 05/10/2005
  • Original Release: 1974
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 13,871

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Closed Caption; Commentary by Burt Reynolds and writer/producer Albert S. Ruddy; Doing Time on the Longest Yard; Unleashing the Mean Machine; Original theatrical trailer; Exclusive look: The Longest Yard (2005); Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital English mono; French mono; English subtitles

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. All-American SOB [1:22]
2. Behind Bars [5:55]
3. A New Game Plan [1:32]
4. Swamp Reclamation [:28]
5. Fighting Dirty [1:17]
6. Pros & Cons [1:46]
7. Assembling the Team [6:00]
8. The Specialists [7:11]
9. Three Gigantic Rip-Offs [1:34]
10. Caretaker [4:49]
11. Mean Machine [7:44]
12. "I Think I Broke His "F***ing Neck!" [:45]
13. Crewe Cuts Deal With Warden [4:12]
14. Hardball [5:54]
15. Game Ball [2:10]
16. Roster [8:29]

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When it comes to football, good-old-boy comedy, a grand confrontation with self-esteem, and some great don't-blink character turns, The Longest Yard scores on every down. Burt Reynolds, having established his big-screen credibility as a bow-and-arrow-toting macho man two years earlier in Deliverance, went back to his roots as a football player (he'd played at Florida State) in this comedy-cum-morality play from director Robert Aldrich (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Dirty Dozen). Reynolds plays a former professional quarterback who's now riding the bench in a state penitentiary, where the evil, conniving warden (Eddie Albert) pressures him into organizing a team of inmates to play against the prison's beefy guards. The guards moonlight as the warden's organized semipro team, so Reynolds's ragtag bunch shouldn't have a chance, but... Reynolds confronts the title's moral equivalent when the warden offers him an early release in exchange for throwing the big game. Film buffs can look for the ever-present Reynolds crony James Hampton as Caretaker; Bond's future "Jaws," Richard Kiel as Samson, and a charming beehive-haired turn by Bernadette Peters as the warden's secretary. While there are other powerful pigskin tales -- Brian's Song, Rudy -- the uneven playing field confronting Reynolds makes The Longest Yard a particularly satisfying tale. Charles Salzberg, Barnes & Noble

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October 24, 2002: Before getting mucked up in a series of 1980's celluloid trash, Burt Reynolds proved he was a solid dramatic actor with a series of great parts, this one right before re-teaming with Robert Aldrich and co-star Eddie Albert, in HUSTLE. Be you a football fan or not, this is a winner of a film. A great (familiar) cast and witty dialogue that scores on every series.

This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen / Mono edition.