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Cool Hand Luke
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*Cool Hand Luke* is a 1967 American drama and prison film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson, based on a work by Donn Pearce. The cast includes Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, and Robert Drivas. Conrad Hall served as director of photography, Lalo Schifrin composed the score, and Sam O'Steen was the film editor. The production was handled by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Jalem Productions, with distribution by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. The narrative is set in Florida, and the film is in the English language.
The movie has a runtime of 127 minutes and was released on November 1, 1967. It has a budget of 3,200,000 and generated revenue of 16,217,773. The film received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for Best Actor, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.0 based on 196,348 votes, a Metascore of 92, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100%. The film is rated Approved.
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7.7When 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.
Cast
- Paul Newman as Luke Jackson
- George Kennedy as Dragline
- Luke Askew as Boss Paul
- Morgan Woodward as Boss Godfrey
- Harry Dean Stanton as Tramp
- Dennis Hopper as Babalugats
Themes
- prison
- dying and death
- florida
- based on novel or book
- escape
- loss of loved one
- rebel
- harassment
- imprisonment
- barbed wire
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
196,818 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
92/100
- Year
- 1967
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 11 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Screenplay by
- Donn Pearce Frank R. Pierson
- Based on
- Cool Hand Luke , (1965 novel), by Donn Pearce
- Produced by
- Gordon Carroll
- Starring
- Paul Newman George Kennedy J. D. Cannon Robert Drivas Lou Antonio Strother Martin Jo Van Fleet
- Cinematography
- Conrad Hall
- Edited by
- Sam O'Steen
- Music by
- Lalo Schifrin
- Production company
- Jalem Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Release date
- November 1, 1967 ( 1967-11-01 )
- Running time
- 126 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3.2 million
- Box office
- $16.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson, and starring Paul Newman in the title role. The cast also features George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Strother Martin and Jo Van Fleet. Based on Pearce's semi-autobiographical 1965 novel , the film is about a nonconformist convict in an early 1950s Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.
Filming took place within California's San Joaquin River Delta region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the Deep South, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew the filmmakers sent to a Road Prison in Gainesville, Florida. Lalo Schifrin wrote the film's Oscar-nominated musical score.
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