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Cool Hand Luke [1967]
from Warner Home Video
starring Paul Newman, Joe Don Baker, Clifton James, Lou Antonio, Morgan Woodward
directed by Stuart Rosenberg

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Communication breakdown
  Paul Newman stars as Luke along with a marvellous cast in a prison gang film set in the deep south. Luke is a former war hero who when very drunk one night starts damaging parking meters (the very beginning of the film) and ends up serving time. Although apparently a very laid back character, the death of his mother changes Luke's attitude and the film hinges on this critical moment.
  I've always enjoyed the film in the past on TV, but was too young to have seen it at the cinema first time round. So to... more info

• As sure as eggs is eggs?
  This film goes the whole way...Never a dull moment and transports you back to a more innocent age? Luke's a rebel who endears himself to everyone, especially George Kennedy!
  Without Kennedy's flawless portrayal of Dragline, it might not have been so humourous. Their double act is one to behold and carries the story throughout!!! This is memorable and also educating in human mechanics.......fantastic!!!

• what we have here is a great movie
  An icon movie of doomed nonconformity in a southern prison chain gang.
  Much has been writen regarding this movie but for me tis the less lauded scenes that get you and keep you. If Luke talking to his dying mother in the back of a pickup; or getting two kids to help cut his leg chain aint Oscar material - what is!

• Just excellent filmmaking
  Cool Hand Luke is yet again proof of Paul Newman's iconic status as a actor. Given the fact Newman was 42 when this film was made, one has to acknowledge that he was something special and cinema rarely has produced such actors with such a raw charisma, such a warmth and presence in front of the camera.
  This film is up there with 'The Sting' and 'Butch Cassidy' in terms of classic Newman. The script and characterisation is just as entertaining and quirky as anything else Newman has appeared in.more info

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