The Longest Yard

"Like Steven Spielberg's excellent, oddly forgotten Sugarland Express, The Longest Yard manages to be crowd-pleasing entertainment and a tough, uncompromising movie at the same time. While The Longest Yard has a devoted following and shows up on TV often, this Paramount DVD is still a welcome release. The print has been cleaned up considerably (previous video versions were incredibly faded) and the anamorphic widescreen transfer shows off the visual flair of director Robert Aldrich and his longtime cinematographer, Joseph Biroc, instead of hampering it the way that previous versions had. The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track comes in the original mono and the sound mix is right on the mark. While fans of The Longest Yard will have to wait for a DVD edition that comes with extras, this Paramount release has the movie looking and sounding better than at any time since 1974, when it first hit the screen."