Burt Reynolds starred as Paul "Wrecking" Crewe in 1974's classic The Longest Yard, leading his inmate team against the guards in a brutal prison football game. And that's the only version of the ...

Prolific actor James Hampton — known for roles in TV shows including “F Troop” of the 1960s and movies like the 1974 Burt Reynolds movie “The Longest Yard” — died Wednesday.

Former movie star and Florida State running back Burt Reynolds died ... He was 82. Reynolds played the role of quarterback Paul Crewe in The Longest Yard, which was a 1974 film about a former ...

"The Longest Yard," a shrewdly updated yet surprisingly faithful remake of Robert Aldrich's 1974 football-behind-bars dramedy starring Burt Reynolds. Sandler impressively assumes the Reynolds role ...

It has gotten to the point that, with Hollywood's trend of cannibalizing everything from its most beloved classics to its most forgettable mediocrities, a movie critic these days isn't reviewing ...

Burt Reynolds will mostly be ... on to star in two football-themed movies: The Longest Yard in 1974 and Semi-Tough in 1977. In The Longest Yard, Reynolds was cast in the role of a former NFL ...

and it might come as a surprise to learn that 2005’s The Longest Yard is one of his highest-grossing ones. In a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds film, Sandler played quarterback/prison inmate ...

You see Burt’s desire for a connection with Quinton that he never really had with his own dad.” Reynolds as prison inmate Paul “Wrecking” Crewe in 1974’s “The Longest Yard,” which ...

Adam Sandler (search) is the new Burt Reynolds (search)? It seems hard to believe, but in this weekend's "The Longest Yard," (search) a remake of the 1974 movie about a famous quarterback who goes ...

The new trailer for the comedy remake of Burt Reynolds 1974 classic The Longest Yard is right here on IGN FilmForce today! Set for release this Memorial Day, the new version features a very ...

Before teaming up for the 1974 football/ prison comedy The Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds and Robert ... what a bully he can be. On the DVD commentary track, Reynolds sounds remarkably loose, quoting ...