Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Theatrical Trailer - © Warner Bros.

Film: Cool Hand Luke.


Starring: Paul Newman as Luke Jackson.


Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg.


Story & Screenplay written by: Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson.


Distributed by: © Warner Bros.


Theatrical Release Date: 1 November 1967 (USA)


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Synopsis!
"Cool Hand Luke" is a 1967 American drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon, and Morgan Woodward.

Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. His inability to conform drives the plot of the movie, in the same vein as characters such as Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four, Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Number Six from the British television series The Prisoner (aired during the same year) and Jake Holman in The Sand Pebbles.

In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Plot!
Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sent to a Florida prison camp for cutting the heads off parking meters one drunken night. His unquenchable spirit makes the other prisoners idolize him.

Luke becomes notorious for his escapes from prison. During the longest such escape, Luke mails a magazine to the other prisoners with a photograph in it of him with two beautiful women, which the prisoners receive with awe and delight. However, Luke is again caught and beaten before being returned to the prison. He receives immediate care from his friends as they tell him how amazed they were at his picture. The delirious Luke, however, admits that the picture was a fake and it cost him a whole week's pay. Afterward, as he struggles to recover, Luke's will is broken in front of the other prisoners. As punishment for trying to escape, he has to dig a large hole in the prison camp yard, then fill it in and repeat the process, as his comrades look on with shame. At night, an exhausted Luke collapses in his hole and begs the bosses for mercy and not to be hit again. His friends hear this and lose the last of the idealized image they had of him. One prisoner pulls out the magazine with Luke's picture in it and tears it up. Luke is hauled back into the bunk house, where he struggles to his bed alone.

Broken in spirit, Luke nonetheless takes one last stab at freedom when he gets the chance to steal the guards' truck. Dragline (George Kennedy), his closest associate in the prison gang, jumps in the truck with Luke and they drive off. The two travel together until at night near a church Luke tells Dragline that they should split up. Saddened and regretful, Dragline thanks Luke as the two part, and Luke enters the church. Moments later, police cars arrive outside the church. Dragline suddenly enters and tells Luke it's over and he made a deal with the bosses that they won't hurt him if he surrenders peacefully. Luke, knowing better, appears in an open window and remarks, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate," echoing the Captain's own words to Luke earlier in the film. Luke is immediately shot in the neck. A distraught Dragline hauls him outside, where he is placed in a car with orders to take him to the prison hospital, even though someone protests that it is more than an hour away and he needs immediate medical attention.

Later, Dragline and the other prisoners reminisce about Luke in the fields. Dragline describes Luke's unique smile as scenes of the protagonist flash across the screen. The final image is the now-restored picture of Luke and the two women, with the rips forming the shape of a cross, before the screen fades to black.

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[terminator847]

@jasperdel24 no really, I dont get it

[jasperdel24]

@terminator847 Judging from the comments on your profile, I can see that you do this a lot. Don't waste my time.

[terminator847]

@jasperdel24 I still don't get it

[jasperdel24]

@terminator847 "Gets shot in the face". Uhh...duh?

[terminator847]

@jasperdel24 why? did he spoil the movie for you lol

[jasperdel24]

@mtdeezy I hope you go to hell.

[naruto4ever66]

SPOILER! btw its the neck

[mtdeezy]

rite after luke says it he gits shot in da face