Cool Hand Luke

About 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…

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 crime film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It runs 127 minutes and was released in November 1967.

Paul Newman takes the lead as Luke Jackson, George Kennedy as Dragline, Luke Askew as Boss Paul, and Morgan Woodward as Boss Godfrey. Written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson. It was produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. The story is adapted from a novel.

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The Great Escape, The Experiment, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 make useful companions to Cool Hand Luke, all filed under barbed wire, escape, and prison. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 1,679 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.