(Original Caption) Burt Reynolds stars as an ex-football hero who must organize a team behind prison walls in Paramount Pictures, The Longest Yard. The Albert S. Ruddy Production, directed by Robert Aldrich, is the dramatic tale of a brutal game of life and death inside the walls of a prison waged by a sadistic warden (Eddie Albert). It was filmed on location inside a maximum security prison from a screenplay by Tracy Kennan Wynn based on a story by Albert S. Ruddy. Also co-starring Ed Lauter, the film was produced by Albert S. Ruddy.
