Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American <a href="/facts/Prison_film/Rb6zCy1l">prison</a> <a href="/facts/Drama_film/K3GjTczf">drama film</a> directed by <a href="/facts/Stuart_Rosenberg/fRErnyMh">Stuart Rosenberg</a>, starring <a href="/facts/Paul_Newman/fxGNhNKI">Paul Newman</a> and featuring <a href="/facts/George_Kennedy/c3YS1emX">George Kennedy</a> in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a <a href="/facts/Florida/cF245A3Q">Florida</a> prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on <a href="/facts/Donn_Pearce/HP9GLWqI">Donn Pearce</a>'s 1965 <a href="/facts/Cool_Hand_Luke_(novel)/KlUjLutL">Cool Hand Luke</a>.
Pearce sold the original story to <a href="/facts/Warner_Bros./JRF3lhQ6">Warner Bros.</a>, who then hired him to write the film's script. Due to his lack of film experience, the studio added <a href="/facts/Frank_Pierson/PjNlED5U">Frank Pierson</a> to rework the screenplay. Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden wrote that the "tough, honest" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially Newman's other 1967 film, <a href="/facts/Hombre_(film)/2hUlyoud">Hombre</a>. <a href="/facts/Roger_Ebert/ogYo6zQj">Roger Ebert</a> has cited Cool Hand Luke as an anti-establishment film shot during emerging popular opposition to the <a href="/facts/Vietnam_War/W0gfbGTE">Vietnam War</a>. Filming took place within California's <a href="/facts/Sacramento%E2%80%93San_Joaquin_River_Delta/c99rQzqz">San Joaquin River Delta</a> region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the <a href="/facts/Deep_South/XU4yQQBa">Deep South</a>, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew the filmmakers sent to a Road Prison in <a href="/facts/Gainesville,_Florida/zL3WUbEG">Gainesville, Florida</a>. The film uses <a href="/facts/Religious_images_in_Christian_theology/1a93B2Fz">Christian imagery</a>.
Upon its release, Cool Hand Luke received favorable reviews and was a box-office success. It cemented Newman's status as one of the era's top actors, and was called the "touchstone of an era". Newman was nominated for the <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor/ESeGU7vo">Academy Award for Best Actor</a>, Kennedy won the <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor/ELmDBH4E">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor</a>, Pearce and Pierson were nominated for the <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay/JI9tgesp">Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay</a>, and <a href="/facts/Lalo_Schifrin/gYsHokvl">Lalo Schifrin</a> was nominated for <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score/wsxePkjo">Best Original Score</a>. In 2005, the United States <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a> selected the film for the <a href="/facts/National_Film_Registry/HGoP1Mre">National Film Registry</a>, considering it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film has a <a href="/facts/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes/9vrJLx19">100% rating</a> on the review aggregator website <a href="/facts/Rotten_Tomatoes/rLs7ktSY">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, and the prison warden's (<a href="/facts/Strother_Martin/QMfrDMYm">Strother Martin</a>) line in the film, which begins with "What we've got here is failure to communicate", was listed at number 11 on the <a href="/facts/American_Film_Institute/DhNpmV60">American Film Institute</a>'s <a href="/facts/AFI%27s_100_Years..._100_Movie_Quotes/tk2fDwdA">100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes</a> list.

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Cool Hand Luke