Cool Hand Luke
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, 'You're an original, that's what you are!' Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
16 September 1925, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
15 June 1956, California, USA
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
18 February 1925, New York City, New York, USA
13 August 1922, Detroit, Michigan, USA
26 March 1919, Kokomo, Indiana, USA
24 January 1918, Alberta, Canada
26 March 1932, Macon, Georgia, USA
12 May 1924, London, England, UK
7 April 1933, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
8 June 1925, Danville, Virginia, USA
29 December 1915, Oakland, California, USA
1928, Croydon, Pennsylvania, USA
20 April 1940, Newman, Illinois, USA
6 February 1924, Texas City, Texas, USA
22 June 1928, White Plains, New York, USA
14 July 1926, West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
26 December 1927, Stockton, California, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
24 April 1922, Salmon, Idaho, USA
29 May 1920, Spokane, Washington, USA
7 November 1927, Gainesville, Georgia, USA
15 September 1921, Houston, Texas, USA
5 November 1930, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 February 1936, Groesbeck, Texas, USA
April 23, 2013
It's easy to forget just how fine Cool Hand Luke is.
August 22, 2008
A picture of chilling dramatic power.
April 15, 2004
It's as fresh and effective in 2004 as it was in 1967.
July 08, 2010
...a gulag melodrama, if such a thing is possible.
June 26, 2015
As this 'Southern' turns up the heat, the sense of sadistic oppression, of being looked down on by 'the man,' swelters and burns. The glowering sun eclipses the convict in its hellfire glow. Newman/Luke's knowing smile, though, burns on.
April 23, 2009
Stuart Rosenberg's direction is a horror, but the cast teems with so many familiar faces that this 1967 film can't help but entertain.
July 22, 2008
Newman gives an excellent performance, assisted by a terriffic supporting cast, including George Kennedy, outstanding as the unofficial leader of the cons who yields first place to Newman.
February 16, 2014
An incredible film...
September 09, 2008
Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy.
October 23, 2004
A tough, honest film with backbone.
November 16, 2008
Anchored by Paul Newman's thoroughly magnetic performance...
February 09, 2006
A caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow-prisoners.
