Top Billed Cast

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
Bernadette Peters
Miss Toot
Pervis Atkins
Mawabe
Tony Cacciotti
Rotka
Anitra Ford
Melissa
Richard Kiel
Samson
Tony Reese
Levitt
Michael Fox
Announcer
Dino Washington
Mason
George A. Jones
Big George
Chuck Hayward
Trooper I
Mort Marshall
Assistant Warden
Joe Kapp
Walking Boss
Pepper Martin
Shop Steward
Ray Nitschke
Bogdanski
Sonny Sixkiller
The Indian
Robert Tessier
Shokner
Ernie Wheelwright
Spooner
Joe Dorsey
Bartender
Gus Carlucci
Team Doctor
Jack Rockwell
Trainer
Sonny Shroyer
Tannen
Ray Ogden
Schmidt
Don Ferguson
Referee
Alfie Wise
Trooper II
Steve Wilder
J.J.
Wilbur Gillian
Big Wilbur
Wilson Warren
Buttercup
Joe Jackson
Little Joe
Howard Silverstein
Howie
Donald Hixon
Donny
Gerald Michael Atkins
Con / Football player (uncredited)
Malcolm Atterbury
Bit Part (uncredited)
J. Don Ferguson
Football Referee (uncredited)
Lance Fuller
Secondary Role (uncredited)
Harold Morris
Minor Role (uncredited)
Bill Rampley
Guard / Football Player (uncredited)
James Hooks Reynolds
Con Football Player (uncredited)
Philip Wende
Guard (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun Sep 09 2018

Football and prison is a recipe for brutal mirth. Disgraced former pro football quarterback Paul Crewe is sent to prison after a drunken night to remember. The prison is run by Warden Hazen, a football nut who spies an opportunity to utilise Crewe's ability at the sport to enhance the prison guards' team skills. After initially declining to help, Crewe is swayed into putting together a team of convicts to take on the guards in a one off match, thieves, murderers and psychopaths collectively come together to literally, beat the guards, but Crewe also has his own personal demons to exorcise. ...