The Longest Yard (1974)
The Longest Yard was shot during the golden age of the football movie—the 1970s, an era which still produced an original idea every now and then. The story of an ex-pro quarterback (Burt Reynolds) who leads a group of prison inmates in a game against the prison guards, it features one-dimensional characters, but characters you care about and root for nonetheless.
This is not to be confused with the Adam Sandler remake of the same name, as there are several differences between the two movies, including an opening domestic violence scene in the original that would make Ike Turner recoil.
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