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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
[32] Car-chase movies would be Reynolds' most profitable genre. At the end of 1973, Reynolds was voted into the list of the ten most-popular movie actors in the US at number four. He would stay on that list until 1984. He made a sports comedy with Robert Aldrich, The Longest Yard (1974) which was popular. Aldrich later said "I think that on ...
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 ...
Aside from being almost universally admired by film critics (as its 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes attests), Boogie Nights also earned late-career praise for the most iconic member of its ensemble ...
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.
Bettmann/Getty Images Sally Field revealed that when she won an Oscar for best actress in 1980, her then-boyfriend, Burt Reynolds, refused to attend the ceremony with her. Field, 77, was nominated ...