Continuity mistake: After Burt Reynolds hits the guard in the crotch with the football, a wide shot shows 2:29 left in the game. He hits him again on the next play, and the scoreboard shows 2:35 left. The clock in a football game, of course, counts down, not up.
The Longest Yard (1974)
Plot summary
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe is a star quarterback of a football team. Till, that is, he is injured and forced to retire. Upon thios his life gets boring and due to some dangerous driving and a crazy pile-up, he is jailed. Here he ends up coaching a football team of criminals, including chris rock , burt reynolds, and goldberg, to play against the guards team, leading to a wacky adventure on the inside.
More mistakes in The Longest Yard
Warden Hazen: Mr. Crewe, as old Mr. Sam used to say, 'In this institution, to get along, you go along.'.
Trivia: When the film was released Burt Reynolds arranged to have this film shown in maximum security prisons all over the US, because the prisoners obviously couldn't get to the theaters to see it themselves.
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