Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 05/10/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 121 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Ex-football star
Paul Crewe (
Burt Reynolds) ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut
Warden Hazen (
Eddie Albert). Strong-armed into forming an inmate football team,
Crewe manages to instill an
esprit de corps previously lacking in the prisoners' lives. Besides, they now have the chance to beat the guards' football team, headed by the hissable
Capt. Knauer (
Ed Lauter).
Hazen orders
Crewe to throw the match; otherwise,
Crewe will never get the pardon he's been promised. The football game that follows consumes nearly a third of the picture.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A reviewer
from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Classic Prison Sports Film Scores a Touchdown.
Robert Aldrich, who directed Vera Cruz, Four for Texas, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Flight of the Phoenix, and The Dirty Dozen brings a raucous rough-and-tumble comedy-drama with Burt Reynolds as a pro-football player serving time in prison for car theft and winds up being recruited by the sadistic, scheming warden to turn a gang of convicts into a football team to play against the prison guards in a football championship game. Also starring Eddie Albert, Michael Conrad, Ed Lauter, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Richard Kiel, Harry Caesar, Michael Fox, Robert Tessier, Sonny Shroyer, Anitra Ford, Chuck Hayward, and Alfie Wise. Remade in 2005.
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