Cool Hand Luke poster
Director Stuart Rosenberg
Screenplay Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce

Cool Hand Luke

Tagline: The man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.

Release Date: 1967-11-01

Duration: 127 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Paul Newman
    Luke Jackson
  • Anthony Zerbe
    Dog Boy
  • Harry Dean Stanton
    Tramp
  • Dennis Hopper
    Babalugats
  • George Kennedy
    Dragline
  • Morgan Woodward
    Boss Godfrey
  • Strother Martin
    Captain
  • Robert Donner
    Boss Shorty
  • Ralph Waite
    Alibi
  • Joe Don Baker
    Fixer