Cool Hand Luke [DVD]

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One of my favorite movies. It's a tale of a hard headed trouble maker who won't buckle under for anyone.

I've seen this movie many times and caught it on TV again this weekend, only reminding me what a classic it is, easily among the best of all time.Paul Newman plays Luke, an unbreakable spirit trapped in a place, and among men, determined to break him. That spirit, though, is as much his strength as it is his burden. As the story progresses, the audience comes to identify, not so much with Luke himself, but with his prisonmates. We're in silent awe of his guts when he won't stay down in the fight scene with George Kennedy, we root for him on the edge of our seats during the oft-referenced egg eating scene, we watch with pity as he digs and fills the ditch - the guards working him to the breaking point, and we cheer like mad as he takes off in the same guards' truck, shackles be damned.It could easily be regarded as Newman's best acting. I wouldn't disagree with that, but won't go that far myself only out of respect for his other all time great performances (e.g. The Hustler, Butch Cassidy, The Color of Money, The Verdict, and so on).Also, as a "prison movie", as much as I hate to lump this classic into such a narrow sub-genre, it is by far the best I've seen and its influence on future films of that genre, the good ones and the bad ones (e.g. Escape From Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and so on), is blatantly obvious.In short . . . a classic, definitely in my personal top ten of all time.

ESSENTIAL MOVIE!!! One of the defining roles in Paul Newman's career in which he plays a likable convict put in prison for breaking into parking meters. Luke is a nonconformist which doesn't bode well for him in prison, a place that demands conformity to the rules. Luke evolves into a position of respect among the inmates, they look upon him as a leader though it's a role he doesn't want. He's constantly bucking the system which keeps him in trouble with the warden & guards. Things get worse after a successful escape & subsequent recapture. The warden & guards try to break Luke's spirit which they aren't very successful at. Luke finally tries another escape which leads to his demise.The movie has several defining moments in it; there's the egg eating scene where Luke eats fifty boiled eggs in one hour, there's the scene where the warden (Strother Martin) makes his famous speech: "What we have here... is a failure to communicate..." & the scene where, apparently, Luke's spirit is broken. The acting in this movie is outstanding elicited by the director Stuart Rosenberg who wasn't & never will be one of Hollywood's better known directors.There are many now famous actors in this movie with varying degrees of substantial roles. George Kennedy won a very deserving Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role. Also in the movie are Morgan Woodward (Sunglasses) in a featured yet non-speaking role, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Wayne Rogers (co-star in M*A*S*H), Ralph Waite (The Waltons) & Anthony Zerbe.Do yourself a favor & get this movie, one of the best "prison" movies ever done by Hollywood!

After an entire lifetime of never having seen Cool Hand Luke (and always assuming that it was a Western, strictly on the basis of the title), I finally saw it yesterday. I won't bother saying much about the film because so many other reviewers have said it all already, other than that I loved it and it instantly became one of my favorite films. But I do want to say that The Shawshank Redemption, one of my all time favorite movies, has gone down a notch or two in my book after having seen this. Am I wrong to assume that the "inspiration" is a little, shall we say, blatant? To a lesser degree, the same applies to One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest. I never really saw much of a connection between those two movies, but today I would bet my last dollar that they were both unabashedly patterned after Cool Hand Luke... all they did was change a few variables. Still great films, but as with Xerox facsimilies, the original is superior to the copies.

I liked this movie, and I understand it's cheap, but it needs a more protective cover.

One of the best ever! May have been the first major star to take on the "anti-hero" role, and it didn't go over well at the box office. This one hit tv quickly. I first saw it on the Sunday Late Show and it stayed with me. Some real lessons in being who you are and trying to get by when you aren't like everyone else. George Kennedy got a well-deserved Oscar as "Dragline," and I don't think Newman was even nominated.Still a great film!

If you are a man you are almost guaranteed to like this movie.I am not thi kind to pick on subtextual themes and what-not, butI know a lot of people analyze this movie more than is really necessary.It's the story of a man who will not be beaten down. I dare you not to crywhen the closing credits roll. I double dog dare you, tough guy.This is a must have movie if you got a pair.

Allez savoir comment un chef d'oeuvre comme ce film n'est toujours pas édité en zone 2 alors qu'on nous abreuve de navets en tous genres à longueur d'années.Réalisé en 1967 par Stuart Rosenberg et mettant en scène un Paul Newman en pleine gloire, ce film raconte l'histoire d'un asocial envoyé dans une sorte de prison / camp de redressement pour délinquants. Il ne fera que reproduire le même schéma d'incivilité au sein de ce groupe de durs à cuire et de gardiens en mal d'autorité.Malgré une carrière riche en grands rôles, ce rôle de luke la main froide est à mon avis le meilleur de Paul Newman. C'est à croire qu'il était né pour incarner cette brute au grand coeur.Les scènes se suivent et sont plus fortes les unes que les autres malgré les 15 dernières minutes qui traînent un peu en longueur.Drame social avec ses passages violents et ses instants comiques, LUKE LA MAIN FROIDE vous laisse une marque indélibile et se retrouve d'ailleurs souvent dans les listes des films préférés de certains réalisateurs américains contemporains.Si vous avez un lecteur dézoné et que vous aimez les films américains de cette période comme EASY RIDER ou PAPILLON , vous pouvez acheter les yeux fermés ce DVD zone 1.

Good old movie

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