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Cool Hand Luke

1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

Film · TMDB

7.7

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.

Released: 1967-11-01127 minDir: Stuart RosenbergDrama, Crime

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

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

8/10

196,818 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

92/100

Rated: Approved
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 11 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Screenplay by: Donn Pearce Frank R. Pierson
Based on: Cool Hand Luke , (1965 novel), by Donn Pearce
Produced by: Gordon Carroll
Starring: Paul Newman George Kennedy J. D. Cannon Robert Drivas Lou Antonio Strother Martin Jo Van Fleet
Cinematography: Conrad Hall
Edited by: Sam O'Steen
Music by: Lalo Schifrin
Production company: Jalem Productions
Distributed by: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Release date: November 1, 1967 ( 1967-11-01 )
Running time: 126 minutes
Country

Key dates

Published: 1 December 1967

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Part of: National Film Registry
Award: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Genre: prison film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English language
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Screenwriter: Frank Pierson
Cast member: John McLiam
Composer

Article

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson, and starring Paul Newman in the title role. The cast also features George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Strother Martin and Jo Van Fleet. Based on Pearce's semi-autobiographical 1965 novel , the film is about a nonconformist convict in an early 1950s Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.

Filming took place within California's San Joaquin River Delta region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the Deep South, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew the filmmakers sent to a Road Prison in Gainesville, Florida. Lalo Schifrin wrote the film's Oscar-nominated musical score.