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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.
- $3.2 million
- Lalo Schifrin
- October 31, 1967
- Gordon Carroll
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.
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 395
- 3 min
Rated: 3.5/4 • Apr 8, 2023. Apr 4, 2023. 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 ...
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- Stuart Rosenberg
- PG
- Paul Newman
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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.
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 ...
Luke is on a Southern chain gang. He's the only prisoner with guts enough to talk back to the bosses and the only one with nerve enough to escape. He begins the movie as a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. That Luke, he's a cool hand.
