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Cool Hand Luke
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.
1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min · Drama · Crime · 54 frames
Tagline
The man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.
Crew
- Screenplay: Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce
- Written by: Hal Dresner
- Cinematography: Conrad Hall
- Edited by: Sam O'Steen
- Music: Lalo Schifrin
- Produced by: Gordon Carroll, Carter DeHaven Jr.
Cast
- Paul Newman as Luke Jackson
- George Kennedy as Dragline
- Luke Askew as Boss Paul
- Morgan Woodward as Boss Godfrey
- Harry Dean Stanton as Tramp
- Dennis Hopper as Babalugats
- Lou Antonio as Koko
- Robert Drivas as Loudmouth Steve
- Strother Martin as Captain
- Jo Van Fleet as Arletta
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Jalem Productions
- Budget: $3,200,000
- Box office: $16,217,773
- Themes: prison, dying and death, florida, based on novel or book, escape, loss of loved one, rebel, harassment, imprisonment, barbed wire
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