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Release Date: 1967

Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Paul Newman, Strother Martin, J. D. Cannon, Harry Dean Stanton, Jo Van Fleet, Marc Cavell, George Kennedy, Luke Askew, Joe Don Baker, Dennis Hopper, Robert Drivas ...MORE

Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Paul Newman, Strother Martin, J. D. Cannon, Harry Dean Stanton, Jo Van Fleet, Marc Cavell, George Kennedy, Luke Askew, Joe Don Baker, Dennis Hopper, Robert Drivas, James Gammon, Lou Antonio, Morgan Woodward ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Prison, Prison film, Crime Fiction, Film adaptation

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon and Morgan Woodward. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film... MORE

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon and Morgan Woodward. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for cutting the heads off a town's parking meters one drunken night in the late 1940s. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida prison camp, run by the heartless Captain (Strother Martin). Luke is revealed to be a decorated World War II veteran, and is initially known to the other prisoners as "Lucas War-Hero." Luke fails to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners' de facto leader Dragline (George Kennedy). The pair spar, with the prisoners and guards watching. Although Luke LESS