Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Cool Hand Luke:

Paul Newman
George Kennedy
Luke Askew
Morgan Woodward
Harry Dean Stanton
Dennis Hopper

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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.

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The Age (Australia) - 10/10 by Jake WilsonThe whole thing depends on Newman's blue eyes, easy grin, and ability to appear charismatic but never cocky.
The New York Times - 10/10 by Bosley CrowtherMr. Newman is excellent, at the top of his sometime erratic form, in the role of this warped and alienated loner whose destiny it is to lose. George Kennedy is powerfully obsessive as the top-dog who handles things his way as effectively and finally as destructively as does the warden or the guards.
Time Out - 10/10 by Tom MilneA 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.
Cleveland Press - 10/10 by Tony MastroianniNewman has seldom been better than he is as the mocking rebel. George Kennedy is excellent as the tough prisoner and Jo Van Fleet moving in a brief scene as Luke's mother.
LarsenOnFilm - 10/10 by Josh LarsenThe incessant, rhythmic swishing of the chain gang’s scythes burrows into your brain – and then adds Newman’s supernova performance. It’s a gulag melodrama, if such a thing is possible.
Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonCool Hand Luke now seems more like a well-made entertainment than any kind of American masterpiece.
Empire Magazine - 10/10 by Kim NewmanPaul Newman gives one of his best performances in this prison film, where he inspires life in to his fellow inmates. Has something important to say with several memorable moments and a superb supporting cast.
Groucho Reviews - 10/10 by Peter CanavesePreserves a time when one could not only get away with making an allegory with an existential hero, but stock it with an ensemble from the Actors Studio. [Blu-Ray]
Film Threat - 10/10 by Brad LaidmanAn amazing accomplishment by Newman as the best fight man has left in him.
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) - 10/10 by Brian GibsonAs 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.

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