Cool Hand Luke (1967)

• Year: 1967
• Released: 01 Nov 1967
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 10 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cool_hand_luke
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/cool-hand-luke
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: GP
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 127 min
• Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson, Hal Dresner
• Director: Stuart Rosenberg
• Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
• Keywords: based on novel or book, prison, loss of loved one, death, escape,

	8.1/10
	92/100
	100% – Critics
	95% – Audience

Cool Hand Luke Storyline

Luke Jackson is a cool, aloof man incapable of conforming to the societal demands of his surroundings. After being arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters, Luke is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm where he quickly develops a reputation as a man with an unbreakable will and whose spirit simply can’t be broken. Idolized by his fellow convicts while simultaneously detested by his superiors, Luke’s bravado in the face of adversity makes him both a hero and a villain in the rural prison. But how long will it take before Luke’s body gives out?

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Cool Hand Luke Movie Reviews

Enjoyable but the end was a bit of a letdown…

“Cool Hand Luke” is a classic cult film. Lots of people love it and it’s ranked very high in the IMDb Top 100 list. While I, too, like the film I can’t say I am quite as sold on the film as the crowd–I think it’s very, very good but wonder if perhaps it’s a tad overrated. But, there certainly is a lot to like about it as well.

Let’s first talk about the good. The acting is exceptional. The fellow chain gang members are made up of LOTS of very familiar faces–as is like a Who’s Who of character actors. Additionally, the stars of the film (George Kennedy and especially Paul Newman) are great–and at the top of their game. Additionally, the writing and especially the dialog are great. But, the writing, while very, very good also left me a bit cold at the end with its vague ending. Additionally, the film is very episodic and seemed a bit disjoint. Still, it is a heck of a good film–and one that probably would appeal most to guys (I have NEVER met a woman who loved the film, though I am sure there are plenty who will read this and take exception).

The quintessential Paul Newman movie

I like Paul Newman, he is very likable while being suitably brooding and intense in his films. To me, as much as I do like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke is my favourite movie of this great actor. What of Newman himself? Well he is just superb here, very cool and charismatic as well as the skills he is best at. The cinematography is also a delight, the Technicolour is just stunning, and Stuart Rosenberg’s direction is a career-best. The dialogue is crisp and memorable, and the story is beautifully constructed. As for any memorable scenes, the prologue and the egg-eating scene are classics, the film succeeds adeptly at being a character study and I for one had no problem with the religious symbolism. Lalo Schifrin’s music is very nice too. So all in all, if you love Paul Newman, you will love Cool Hand Luke. 10/10 Bethany Cox

“He’s A Rebel And He’ll Never Never Be Any Good”

In Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman shows us what the underside of what life is like as a rebel. Picture James Dean doing this part had he lived to do films like these.

Newman plays his usual non-conformist rebel type, but he’s really a rebel without a cause. He’s in his early forties, a Korean war veteran who just hasn’t found his place in civilian life. He gets himself busted for no great cause, just on a drunken spree in some Southern town he decides to knock the heads off a bunch of parking meters.

That lands him a stint in a county jail with a lot of outdoor work on a road gang. He fights with, but later wins the respect and becomes friends with George Kennedy the head honcho in his barracks.

The real tragedy of Cool Hand Luke is that Newman is a failure in life, it’s why he’s in prison. He gains the respect of his fellow convicts for those ways, but that involves going against the penal system and in the end that gets you nothing. Can you picture James Dean as a forty something doing what Newman is doing? It would have been his kind of role for sure.

Newman does a fine job playing the non-conformist Luke who seems to be just going on the path fate has decreed for him. George Kennedy got his Oscar winning career role as Dragline. Other men in Luke’s barracks are Wayne Rogers, Robert Drivas, and J.D. Cannon and they fill their roles well.

Strother Martin as the warden of the place is the guy with the film’s favorite line, “what we’ve got is failure to communicate.” Martin and his correction officers have many interesting ways of getting their point across.

Cool Hand Luke may very well be the saddest role Newman ever undertook in his long career.