The Virginian
1962
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When Strother Martin hosted Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980, he played the strict owner of a language camp for children, parodying his Cool Hand Luke role. He paraphrased his line from the movie as, "What we have here is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!"
Paul Newman as Lucas "Cool Hand Luke" Jackson Strother Martin as Captain The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke,...
Luke : Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain. Captain : Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
Cool Hand Luke: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio. A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Captain: What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it anymore than you men. Full text and video of movie Cool Hand Luke - A Failure to Communicate.
With Cool Hand Luke (1967) in 1967 came new acclaim and a place among the busiest character actors in Hollywood. He worked steadily and in substantial roles throughout the 1970s and seemed at the peak of his career when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1980.
Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Prison, Fugitive, Bet, Hard Boiled Egg. Language. English. Item Size. 1348439628. Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured.
Jul 10, 2008 · Fifty prisoners, counted daily, are assigned to a work gang under the fierce eyes of the Captain (Strother Martin) and the never-seen eyes of Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose reflecting sunglasses get him described as "the man with no eyes." (That he does not speak adds to his stature as a fearsome icon.)
When Luke escapes, a pursuing fury takes the shape of Boss Godfrey, “the man with no eyes” (Morgan Woodward), whose mirrored sunglasses blot out any chance of human sympathy. The judgement of the Captain (Strother Martin) on Luke’s incorrigibility – “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” – famously summed up America’s ...
