Film

Cool Hand Luke

Name: Cool Hand Luke
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Released: 1967
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew, Morgan Woodward, Harry Dean Stanton

1967 · 127 min · ★ 7.8 · Dir. Stuart Rosenberg

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

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.