| On the Yard | |
| Director: | Raphael D. Silver |
| Producer: | Joan Micklin Silver |
| Starring: | John Heard |
| Music: | Charles Gross |
| Cinematography: | Alan Metzger |
| Editing: | Evan A. Lottman |
| Distributor: | Midwest Films |
| Runtime: | 102 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
On the Yard is a 1979 American prison drama film written by Malcolm Braly, directed by Raphael D. Silver and starring John Heard. It is based on Braly's novel of the same name.
The film premiered in New York City on January 19, 1979.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a positive review and wrote, "In adapting his novel to the screen, Mr. Braly has had to eliminate many background details, but the characters are so vividly presented in the film's present tense that one Accepts most of them for what they seem to be. It is one of the virtues of the screenplay, and of Mr. Silver's direction of it, that the characters shift and grow in our awareness as the film progresses."[1]
Malcolm L. Johnson of the Hartford Courant also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "...it must be unequivocally stated that the strengths of this film outweigh its defects."[2]