Where to Watch Cool Hand Luke
- TomVaderAugust 5, 2025It's a movie made during a time that it seems like people could tell good stories and only be judged by the story itself and not by whether or not it applied modern sensibility to that story. Neither the premise, the people in it, nor anything else comes off as believable, and it doesn't matter at all. You can still find yourself emersed in this world, where "the man" has ultimate domain, but a single man can still show him "what for".
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Cool Hand Luke was released on November 1, 1967.
Cool Hand Luke was directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
Cool Hand Luke has a runtime of 2h 7m.
Cool Hand Luke was produced by Carter DeHaven Jr., Gordon Carroll.
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
The key characters in Cool Hand Luke are Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), Dragline (George Kennedy), Boss Paul (Luke Askew).
Cool Hand Luke is rated PG.
Cool Hand Luke is a Crime, Drama film.
Cool Hand Luke has an audience rating of 9.5 out of 10.
Cool Hand Luke had a budget of $3.2M.
Cool Hand Luke has made $16.2M at the box office.