The Longest Yard DVD 1974 Hajrá Fegyencváros / Director: Robert Aldrich / Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad

The Longest Yard DVD 1974 Hajrá Fegyencváros / Director: Robert Aldrich / Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad

UPC 5996255718416

Playtime 116 minutes

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio options:  English, German

Subtitles:  English, Hungarian, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Czech

The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film follows a former NFL player (Burt Reynolds) recruiting the group of prisoners and playing football against their guards.

The film was remade three times, including for the 2001 British film Mean Machine (a shortened version of the title used for the original's UK release), starring Vinnie Jones, the 2005 film remake, The Longest Yard featured Reynolds as coach Nate Scarborough, and as the 2015 Egyptian film Captain Masr. In the two non-American remakes, the sport was changed from American football to association football.

Though the film was billed as being based on an original story, some reviewers found parallels between this film and the 1962 Hungarian film Two Half Times in Hell, which was based on a real-life association football game in 1942 between German soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war during World War II, known as the Death Match.

The Longest Yard featured many real-life football players, including Green Bay Packers legend Ray Nitschke.^[4] The film was shot on location at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. It had the cooperation of then-Governor Jimmy Carter. Filming had to be delayed from time to time due to prison uprisings.

HUNGARIAN SUMMARY:

Egy egykori foci-sztár élete rossz irányt vett, és börtönben végzi. A börtön vezetője egy szadista sport-mániákus, aki kezdettől fogva ferde szemmel néz az intézmény új lakójára. A foci-sztár elhatározza, hogy felrázza a börtönlakók unalmas, monoton életét, és megalakítja a rabok focicsapatát. A rabokat egyre jobban lelkesíti az a tudat, hogy egy szép napon megverhetik az őrök csapatát, s így legalább a sportban elégtételt vesznek mindenért. A nagy összecsapás előestélyén azonban a börtön igazgatója magához hivatja a rabok csapatkapitányát - az ex-focisztárt - és megfenyegeti: ha a rabok nyernek a másnapi mérkőzésen, búcsút mondhat a reménynek, hogy kegyelemmel korábban szabadulhat...