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Title:
Cool Hand Luke
Synopsis:
Decorated Korean War veteran Lucas ”Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting the ”heads” off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a sadistic warden, the Captain (Strother Martin).
Luke refuses to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners’ leader, Dragline (George Kennedy). When the pair have a boxing match, the prisoners and guards watch with interest. Although Luke is severely outmatched by his larger opponent, he refuses to acquiesce. Eventually, Dragline refuses to continue the fight. Luke’s tenacity earns the prisoners’ respect. Later, Luke wins a poker game by bluffing with a hand worth nothing. Luke comments that ”sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” prompting Dragline to nickname him ”Cool Hand Luke”.
Luke and the chain gang finish paving the road
After a visit from his sick mother Arletta (Jo Van Fleet), Luke becomes more optimistic about his situation. The other prisoners start to idolize him after he makes and wins a spur-of-the moment bet that he can eat fifty hard-boiled eggs in one hour. He continually confronts the Captain and the guards, and his sense of humor and independence prove to be both contagious and inspiring to the other prisoners. Luke’s struggle for supremacy peaks when he leads a work crew in a seemingly impossible but successful effort to complete a road-paving job in less than one day.
One day, after Luke uses a stick to lift up a deadly rattlesnake in the grass, causing Boss Godfrey to kill it with his gun, and tossing the snake to the boss as a joke, which does not impress him, Dragline advises Luke to cool it. However, a rainstorm causes everyone to go back into the truck, Luke shouts to God, testing him, before he joins the other prisoners in the truck. On that same evening, Luke receives a painful letter, explaining that his mother had died.
After news of his mother’s death reaches Luke, the Captain, anticipating that Luke might attempt to escape in order to attend his mother’s funeral, has him locked in the prison punishment box. After this, Luke is determined to escape. After an initial escape attempt under the cover of a Fourth of July celebration, he is recaptured by local police and fitted with leg irons, but not before one of the blood hounds, that was after him, dies from the strains from struggling through the barbed-wire fences. Upon his return, the Captain delivers a warning speech to the other inmates, beginning with the famous line, ”What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men.”
Some time later, Luke escapes again by using string to shake a bush and throw off the guards, first visiting a nearby house where he uses an axe to remove his shackles and spreads curry powder as well as chili powder, to confuse the prison’s tracking bloodhounds, who end up sneezing repeatedly. While free, Luke mails the prisoners a magazine that includes a photograph of him with two beautiful women. He is soon recaptured, beaten, returned to the prison camp and fitted with two sets of leg irons. Luke is warned by the captain that if he ever attempts to escape again, that he would be killed on the spot. Luke is now annoyed by the other prisoners’ fawning and reveals that the picture in the magazine is a fake. At first, the other prisoners are angry, but after a long stay in the box, when Luke is being forced to eat a huge serving of rice, the other prisoners help him to finish it.
As punishment for his escape, he is forced to repeatedly dig a grave-sized hole in the prison camp yard, fill it back in, then be beaten. The prisoners observe his persecution, singing spirituals. Finally, as the other prisoners watch from the windows of the bunkhouse, an exhausted Luke collapses in the hole, begging God for mercy and pleads with the bosses not to hit him again. Believing Luke is finally broken, the Captain stops the punishment. Boss Godfrey warns Luke that he will be killed if ever he runs away again, which Luke promises in tears not to do it again. The prisoners begin to lose their idealized image of Luke. A fellow prisoner tears up the photograph of Luke with the women.
Luke defies the authorities for the last time
Seemingly broken, and again with the chain gang, Luke stops working to give water to a prisoner. Following Boss Godfrey’s order, and being watched by the disappointed prisoners, he runs to one of the trucks to take his rifle and bring it to him. After boss Godfrey shoots a snapping turtle, Luke retrieves it from a slough for him, complimenting the boss for his shot. Luke takes one last stab at freedom when he is ordered to take the turtle to the truck. He steals the dump truck, as well as the keys to the other trucks. In the excitement of the moment, Dragline jumps in the dump truck and joins Luke in his escape. Later, Luke tells Dragline that they should part ways. Luke enters a church, where he talks to God and blames him for sabotaging him so he cannot win in life. Moments later, police cars arrive and Dragline walks in, telling Luke that the police have promised not to hurt him if he surrenders peacefully. Luke walks to a window facing the police and mocks the Captain’s famous line, ”What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”. He is immediately shot in the neck by Boss Godfrey. Dragline, reacting to Luke’s terminal injury, launches himself at Boss Godfrey and attempts to strangle him until he is beaten and subdued by the other guards. In tears, Dragline implores Luke to live. The local police want to take Luke to a nearby hospital, but the Captain says he’s taking him to the prison hospital instead. It’s clear that Luke won’t make it that far. As the captain’s car drives away, it crushes Boss Godfrey’s glasses. After Luke’s implied death, Dragline and the other prisoners reminisce about him. In the final scene, the prison crew is seen working near a rural intersection, with Dragline now wearing leg irons. As the camera zooms out, the torn photograph of Luke grinning with the two women is superimposed on a bird’s eye view of the cross-shaped road junction.
Luke refuses to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners’ leader, Dragline (George Kennedy). When the pair have a boxing match, the prisoners and guards watch with interest. Although Luke is severely outmatched by his larger opponent, he refuses to acquiesce. Eventually, Dragline refuses to continue the fight. Luke’s tenacity earns the prisoners’ respect. Later, Luke wins a poker game by bluffing with a hand worth nothing. Luke comments that ”sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” prompting Dragline to nickname him ”Cool Hand Luke”.
Luke and the chain gang finish paving the road
After a visit from his sick mother Arletta (Jo Van Fleet), Luke becomes more optimistic about his situation. The other prisoners start to idolize him after he makes and wins a spur-of-the moment bet that he can eat fifty hard-boiled eggs in one hour. He continually confronts the Captain and the guards, and his sense of humor and independence prove to be both contagious and inspiring to the other prisoners. Luke’s struggle for supremacy peaks when he leads a work crew in a seemingly impossible but successful effort to complete a road-paving job in less than one day.
One day, after Luke uses a stick to lift up a deadly rattlesnake in the grass, causing Boss Godfrey to kill it with his gun, and tossing the snake to the boss as a joke, which does not impress him, Dragline advises Luke to cool it. However, a rainstorm causes everyone to go back into the truck, Luke shouts to God, testing him, before he joins the other prisoners in the truck. On that same evening, Luke receives a painful letter, explaining that his mother had died.
After news of his mother’s death reaches Luke, the Captain, anticipating that Luke might attempt to escape in order to attend his mother’s funeral, has him locked in the prison punishment box. After this, Luke is determined to escape. After an initial escape attempt under the cover of a Fourth of July celebration, he is recaptured by local police and fitted with leg irons, but not before one of the blood hounds, that was after him, dies from the strains from struggling through the barbed-wire fences. Upon his return, the Captain delivers a warning speech to the other inmates, beginning with the famous line, ”What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men.”
Some time later, Luke escapes again by using string to shake a bush and throw off the guards, first visiting a nearby house where he uses an axe to remove his shackles and spreads curry powder as well as chili powder, to confuse the prison’s tracking bloodhounds, who end up sneezing repeatedly. While free, Luke mails the prisoners a magazine that includes a photograph of him with two beautiful women. He is soon recaptured, beaten, returned to the prison camp and fitted with two sets of leg irons. Luke is warned by the captain that if he ever attempts to escape again, that he would be killed on the spot. Luke is now annoyed by the other prisoners’ fawning and reveals that the picture in the magazine is a fake. At first, the other prisoners are angry, but after a long stay in the box, when Luke is being forced to eat a huge serving of rice, the other prisoners help him to finish it.
As punishment for his escape, he is forced to repeatedly dig a grave-sized hole in the prison camp yard, fill it back in, then be beaten. The prisoners observe his persecution, singing spirituals. Finally, as the other prisoners watch from the windows of the bunkhouse, an exhausted Luke collapses in the hole, begging God for mercy and pleads with the bosses not to hit him again. Believing Luke is finally broken, the Captain stops the punishment. Boss Godfrey warns Luke that he will be killed if ever he runs away again, which Luke promises in tears not to do it again. The prisoners begin to lose their idealized image of Luke. A fellow prisoner tears up the photograph of Luke with the women.
Luke defies the authorities for the last time
Seemingly broken, and again with the chain gang, Luke stops working to give water to a prisoner. Following Boss Godfrey’s order, and being watched by the disappointed prisoners, he runs to one of the trucks to take his rifle and bring it to him. After boss Godfrey shoots a snapping turtle, Luke retrieves it from a slough for him, complimenting the boss for his shot. Luke takes one last stab at freedom when he is ordered to take the turtle to the truck. He steals the dump truck, as well as the keys to the other trucks. In the excitement of the moment, Dragline jumps in the dump truck and joins Luke in his escape. Later, Luke tells Dragline that they should part ways. Luke enters a church, where he talks to God and blames him for sabotaging him so he cannot win in life. Moments later, police cars arrive and Dragline walks in, telling Luke that the police have promised not to hurt him if he surrenders peacefully. Luke walks to a window facing the police and mocks the Captain’s famous line, ”What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”. He is immediately shot in the neck by Boss Godfrey. Dragline, reacting to Luke’s terminal injury, launches himself at Boss Godfrey and attempts to strangle him until he is beaten and subdued by the other guards. In tears, Dragline implores Luke to live. The local police want to take Luke to a nearby hospital, but the Captain says he’s taking him to the prison hospital instead. It’s clear that Luke won’t make it that far. As the captain’s car drives away, it crushes Boss Godfrey’s glasses. After Luke’s implied death, Dragline and the other prisoners reminisce about him. In the final scene, the prison crew is seen working near a rural intersection, with Dragline now wearing leg irons. As the camera zooms out, the torn photograph of Luke grinning with the two women is superimposed on a bird’s eye view of the cross-shaped road junction.
Format:
DVD
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Movie Release Year:
1967
Rating:
PG
Barcode:
85514751
Genre:
Drama
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Show Type:
Movie
Date Added:
2018-02-07 17:57:18
Original Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Actors:
George Kennedy
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Directors:
Stuart Rosenberg
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Runtime:
126
Release Date:
1967-11-01
Date Added:
2018-02-07 17:57:18
