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Box office. $16.2 million [2] Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, [3] starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
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.
- (189K)
- Crime, Drama
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1967-11-01
When petty criminal Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden (Strother Martin) or the yard's ...
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- Stuart Rosenberg
- PG
- Paul Newman
Jul 10, 2008 · Advertisement. The movie is "crowd-pleasing," says the critic Tim Dirks, and James Berardinelli speaks of such "comic" scenes as the one where Luke eats 50 hard-boiled eggs. I saw the movie at the time and can testify that it is crowd-pleasing, and in my review from 1967, I wrote that Luke was "always smiling, always ready for a little fun.
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A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. 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. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are ...
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English. 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. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
