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| Cool Hand Luke | |
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| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Produced by | Gordon Carroll |
| Written by | Donn Pearce Frank Pierson |
| Starring | Paul Newman |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Conrad Hall |
| Editing by | Sam O'Steen |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 1 1967 (US) |
| Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb • Allmovie | |
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce. 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[1] who refuses to submit to the system. His inability to conform drives the plot of the movie, in the same vein as characters such as Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four, Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Number Six from the British television series The Prisoner (aired during the same year) and Jake Holman in The Sand Pebbles.
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.
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Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sent to a Florida prison camp for cutting the heads off parking meters one drunken night. His unquenchable spirit makes the other prisoners idolize him.[2]
Luke becomes notorious for his escapes from prison. During the longest such escape, Luke mails a magazine to the other prisoners with a photograph in it of him with two beautiful women, which the prisoners receive with awe and delight. However, Luke is again caught and beaten before being returned to the prison. He receives immediate care from his friends as they tell him how amazed they were at his picture. The delirious Luke, however, admits that the picture was a fake and it cost him a whole week's pay. Afterward, as he struggles to recover, Luke's will is broken in front of the other prisoners. As punishment for trying to escape, he has to dig a large hole in the prison camp yard, then fill it in and repeat the process, as his comrades look on with shame. At night, an exhausted Luke collapses in his hole and begs the bosses for mercy and not to be hit again. His friends hear this and lose the last of the idealized image they had of him. One prisoner pulls out the magazine with Luke's picture in it and tears it up. Luke is hauled back into the bunk house, where he struggles to his bed alone.
Broken in spirit, Luke nonetheless takes one last stab at freedom when he gets the chance to steal the guards' truck. Dragline (George Kennedy), his closest associate in the prison gang, jumps in the truck with Luke and they drive off. The two travel together until at night near a church Luke tells Dragline that they should split up. Saddened and regretful, Dragline thanks Luke as the two part, and Luke enters the church. Moments later, police cars arrive outside the church. Dragline suddenly enters and tells Luke it's over and he made a deal with the bosses that they won't hurt him if he surrenders peacefully. Luke, knowing better, appears in an open window and remarks, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate," echoing the Captain's own words to Luke earlier in the film. Luke is immediately shot in the neck. A distraught Dragline hauls him outside, where he is placed in a car with orders to take him to the prison hospital, even though someone protests that it is more than an hour away and he needs immediate medical attention.
Later, Dragline and the other prisoners reminisce about Luke in the fields. Dragline describes Luke's unique smile as scenes of the protagonist flash across the screen. The final image is the now-restored picture of Luke and the two women, with the rips forming the shape of a cross, before the screen fades to black.
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Cast notes:
The movie's anti-establishment message fit well with the mood of the 1960s.[3] It became a critical and financial success.
Cool Hand Luke won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (George Kennedy), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Music, Original Music Score and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
In 2003, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains rated Luke Jackson as the number 30 greatest hero in American Cinema, and four years later, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies rated Cool Hand Luke number 71.
Cool Hand Luke was included in the United States National Film Registry in 2005.
The line is frequently taken as, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." Both are correct. This line is heard twice in the film, first in its entirety, with no "a", by the Captain (Strother Martin), and later on the first line with an "a", said by Luke.
The quote was listed at number 11 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 most memorable movie lines.
Many symbolic references to Jesus Christ are made throughout the film:
The original music for Cool Hand Luke was composed by Lalo Schifrin. An edited version of the musical cue from the Tar Sequence has been used for many years as the news music package on several television stations' news programs around the world, mostly those owned and operated by ABC in the United States; this cue was first used in 1968 on WABC-TV in New York for their Eyewitness News newscast and was subsequently imported to ABC's other television properties. Nine Network's Nine News & WIN Television's WIN News in Australia and NBN Television's NBN News in Northern NSW still uses an edited version of the music. Although the music originated from this film, to this day many people associate the tune with television news as opposed to the film itself. Frank Gari, who created many News Music packages recorded an arragement of the Tar Sequence in 1983 as News Series 2000.
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