Aired Thursday 23 March, 4:50pm - 6:55pmon Sky Cinema Greats

The Longest Yard (1974)

Comedy drama

An ex-football star doing time is forced by the warden to organise a team of inmates to play against his own line-up of guards. The warden tries to blackmail him into throwing the game, but the convicts have their own ideas and see the game as an opportunity to repay some of the brutality they have endured.

Country
USA
Cast and crew
  • Robert AldrichDirector
  • Burt ReynoldsPaul Crewe
  • Eddie AlbertWarden Hazen
  • Ed LauterCaptain Knauer
  • Michael ConradNate Scarboro
  • James HamptonCaretaker
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