The Longest Yard

Story

Director Robert Aldrich had a knack for depicting outsiders with originality and authenticity. Much like The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard is a popular fable about integrity and group unity. It possesses a requisite toughness along with the loneliness that accompanies the outsider status. Compromise is never easy in an Aldrich film. There's always a bitter price to pay.

Burt Reynolds, in peak form, plays a former pro quarterback ostracized for shaving points. After beating up his girlfriend and resisting arrest, Reynolds winds up in prison, where he's taunted by warden Eddie Albert to help his semiprofessional team of guardsmen win a championship. Naturally, the inmates despise Reynolds, and naturally he redeems himself in one of the great movie football matches of all time. --Bill Desowitz

DVD Features

• Available subtitles: English
  
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  
• Commentary by Burt Reynolds and writer/producer Albert S. Ruddy
  
• Doing Time on The Longest Yard
  
• Unleashing The Mean Machine
  
• Original Theatrical Trailer

Cast

Burt Reynolds
Eddie Albert
Ed Lauter
James Hampton