A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Burt Reynolds
as Paul Crewe
Eddie Albert
as Warden Hazen
Ed Lauter
as Captain Knauer
Michael Conrad
as Nate Scarboro
James Hampton
as Caretaker
Harry Caesar
as Granville
John Steadman
as Pop
Charles Tyner
as Unger
Mike Henry
as Rassmeusen
Jim Nicholson
as Ice Man
Bernadette Peters
as Miss Toot
Pervis Atkins
as Mawabe
