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Mean Machine was filmed from April to June 2001. Most of the prison scenes were filmed at HM Prison Oxford, [5] and the match was filmed at The Warren, the former home ground of Yeading. [6] The Warren is located in Hayes.
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
In this rough-and tumble movie, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to the national championship.
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- Joseph F. Biroc
- 1974: Nominated for Oscar: Best Editing
- United States
Nov 29, 2001 · Blackly comic prison drama from Robert Aldrich, with Burt Reynolds and Co. taking on the guards in a vicious game of American football.
Aided by the clever Caretaker, former professional player Nate Scarboro and the first black inmate willing to play, "Granny" Granville, plus long-term prisoner Pop—and the warden's amorous secretary, Miss Toot—Crewe molds a team nicknamed the "Mean Machine". He agrees to play quarterback himself.
Nov 29, 2001 · Not only does he remake Robert Aldrich's classic American prison film "The Mean Machine" (aka "The Longest Yard") as a British comedy, but he puts Vinnie Jones in the lead role and dumbs down...
“The Mean Machine” (known as “The Longest Yard” in the USA) was filmed in the Georgia State Penitentiary and permission was granted by then Governor Jimmy Carter. The film makes pertinent observations of institutionalised racism and brutality in the US prison system but does not allow any serious intent to dilute the fun.
