The Longest Yard (1974)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, General Film, Sports

Director: Robert Aldrich

Writer(s): Tracy Keenan Wynn, Al Ruddy

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Jim Nicholson, Bernadette Peters, Pervis Atkins, Tony Cacciotti, Anitra Ford, Michael Fox, Joe Kapp, Richard Kiel, Pepper Martin, Mort Marshall, Ray Nitschke, Tony Reese, Sonny Sixkiller, Robert Tessier, Dino Washington, Ernie Wheelwright, Joe Dorsey, Gus Carlucci, Jack Rockwell, Sonny Shroyer, Ray Ogden, Don Ferguson, Chuck Hayward, Alfie Wise, Steve Wilder, George A. Jones, Wilbur Gillian, Wilson Warren, Joe Jackson, Howard Silverstein, Donald Hixon, Gerald Michael Atkins, J. Don Ferguson, Lance Fuller, Harold Morris, Bill Rampley, James Hooks Reynolds, Philip Wende

Synopsis: 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.

Release Date: August 30, 1974 (USA) | Length: 121 min | Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sports | Certificate: R

Note: I wasn’t able to identify a lot of people in this film because it was either their only role or their characters weren’t called by name in the movie.