Cool Hand Luke 1967

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 123 min

genre: drama

theme: prison

director: Stuart Rosenberg

Score: 8 / 10

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. Set in the early 1950s, it is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke]].

Plot

In early 1950s Florida, decorated World War II veteran Lucas "Luke" Jackson drunkenly beheads several parking meters. He is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in a prison camp run by the Captain, a stern warden, and Walking Boss Godfrey, a quiet rifleman nicknamed "the man with no eyes" because he always wears mirrored sunglasses. There, even minor violations are punished by "a night in the box", a small wooden booth in the prison yard with limited air and space.

Awards

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Cast

More details

author	Donn Pearce Frank Pierson
award	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
contentLocation	Florida
director	Stuart Rosenberg
editor	Sam O'Steen
genre	crime drama
keywords	attempt to escape bluff boxing match chain gang errand boy escape attempt even force fourth of july hard-boiled eggs inspire kill leg iron load locked in lose nothing park parking meter poker game prison camp prison yard sick mother steal walk warn world war ii
musicBy	Lalo Schifrin
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Gordon Carroll
productionCompany	Jalem Productions
publisher	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
recordedAt	California
theme	prison