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The Longest Yard. A near straight remake of the 1974 prison football classic, the new Longest Yard has laughs, but stands as a stark reminder that Big Hollywood is running on empty when it comes to fresh ideas. Sandler is Paul Crewe, a former NFL quarterback banned from the league after being suspected of throwing a game.
Albert S. Ruddy, who co-created Hoganâs Heroes with Bernard Feinâand later co-wrote one of the great prison films, The Longest Yardâoriginally intended to set the sitcom in a regular American jail, but rewrote the script when he heard that NBC was developing a show called Campo 44, set in an Italian WWII POW camp.