Burt Reynolds	Paul Crewe
Eddie Albert	Warden Hazen
Ed Lauter	Captain Knauer
Michael Conrad	Nate Scarboro
James Hampton	Caretaker
Harry Caesar	Granville
John Steadman	Pop
Charles Tyner	Unger
Mike Henry	Rassmeusen
Jim Nicholson	Ice Man

Director	Robert Aldrich
Producer	Albert S. Ruddy Alan P. Horowitz
Writer	Tracy Keenan Wynn

Former pro football hero Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe (Burt Reynolds) has a drunken fight with his girlfriend (Anitra Ford) and takes off in her Maserati. To his surprise she presses charges and he ends up in prison. His fellow prisoners hate him because he destroyed his own career by point-shaving. Only Caretaker (James Hampton) is willing to befriend him. Football-mad Warden Rudolph Hazen (Eddie Albert) has put together a roster of guards that double as linebackers and he wants Crewe to create a team of prisoners to take on the guards in an exhibition game. At first Crewe refuses but eventually mistreatment by the guards and an increase in his sentence lead him to attempt the impossible. With the help of Caretaker, former pro footballer Nate Scarboro (Michael Conrad), 'Granny' Granville (Harry Caesar), perpetual prisoner Pop (John Steadman) and the warden's sexy secretary Miss Toot (Bernadette Peters), he overcomes all challenges, including the fact that some of the cons have never played football before and a boycott by the black prisoners. Eventually he fields a tough and capable team. But before the big game, Caretaker is killed by a jealous homosexual arsonist named Unger (Charles Tyner).

Edition Details Audience Rating R (Restricted) Country USA Language English Distributor Paramount Edition Lockdown Edition Barcode 097360263848 Region Region 1 Release Date 5/10/2005 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Mono [English] Dolby Digital Mono [French] Commentary [English] Layers Single Side, Single Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features "The Making of..." Featurette(s) Closed Captioned Commentary Featurette(s) Scene Access Theatrical Trailer(s)

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