Paul Newman in his blue-eyed prime.
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08/22/08
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:43
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: Though hampered by Stuart Rosenberg's direction, Cool Hand Luke is held aloft by a stellar script and one of Paul Newman's most indelible performances.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose... [More]
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Reviews for Cool Hand Luke
Top Critic
One of those movies you remember Great Moments from.
08/22/08
Top CriticA caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow-prisoners.
02/09/06
Top CriticToo cool for words, then switches past midstream into a work of poignancy and power.
08/22/08
Top CriticA picture of chilling dramatic power.
08/22/08
Top CriticA masterpiece of justice and the injustice it hides.
07/30/03
No review available.
09/02/04
Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy.
09/09/08
No review available.
07/26/02
That traditional object of sorrow and compassion in American folk song and lore, the chain-gang prisoner, is given as strong a presentation as ever he has had on the screen.
05/20/03
Top CriticAn amazing accomplishment by Newman as the best fight man has left in him.
12/06/05
No review available.
12/01/03
No review available.
08/22/03
The lines and the character have survived the film's oft-forgotten actual message.
09/05/08
Cool Hand Luke rivals only One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as the best movie ever made about men locked up.
09/21/05
No review available.
01/06/06
Stuart Rosenberg's direction is a horror, but the cast teems with so many familiar faces that this 1967 film can't help but entertain.
04/23/09
Anchored by Paul Newman's thoroughly magnetic performance...
11/16/08
Paul Newman and George Kennedy are at their best at this popular prison drama, which drew on the Depression era film, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Quote to remember: "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."
04/04/07
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