Cool Hand Luke
The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Timing:
2:7 (127 min)
7.739/10
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7.655/10
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8/10
196000
196000
Country
Genre
Crime, Drama, Action
Budget
$3 200 000
Revenue
$16 217 773
Director
Actors
Scenario
Hal Dresner
Producer
Gordon Carroll, Carter DeHaven Jr.
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Sam O'Steen
All team (28)
All team (28)
Short description
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
What's left behind the scenes
- A recording of the captain's monologue (played by Strazer Martin) from the film was later used by Guns N' Roses at the beginning of the song 'Civil War'.
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Donn Pearce.
- The film is included in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress, possessing “cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.”
- Luke Jackson, as portrayed by Paul Newman, is ranked 30th in AFI’s “100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains,” and the film is ranked 71st in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) as one of the most inspiring American films of the past 100 years.
- The film features the line: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” (Russian: In this case, we have a lack of understanding), which is ranked 11th in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes.
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