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The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Burt Reynolds was paid $2 million ($5.6 million today) to play the lead role. [7] In 1987, he discussed how "I don't think Heat and Malone", another film he made shortly after, "are the movies that are going to change my career." He added "at least they are serious films which people have told me I should have been doing for years.
The Longest Yard: Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe 1975 At Long Last Love: Michael Oliver Pritchard III W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings: W.W. Bright Lucky Lady: Walker Ellis Hustle: Lieutenant Phil Gaines Also executive producer 1976 Silent Movie: Himself Cameo Gator: Bobby 'Gator' McKlusky Also director Nickelodeon: Buck Greenway 1977 Smokey and the Bandit
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by Sheldon Turner.A remake of 1974's movie of the same name, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional American football quarterback who goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards.
You could say that no actor ever fitted into his time, or defined it, as quintessentially as Burt Reynolds. His box-office sizzle lingered into the early ’80s, but the classic Reynolds era will ...
In 2012, when asked about her husband's attitude toward Reynolds, she said he was only hard on her with the intent of creating a great movie. "You want your partner to look the best he or she can ...
Once upon a time, Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. In fact, it was in the April 1972 issue, during Helen Gurley Brown's era at the magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmo for 32 ...
The Longest Yard may refer to: The Longest Yard (1974 film) , starring Burt Reynolds The Longest Yard (2005 film) , remake of the 1974 film starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock