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Cool Hand Luke [Blu-ray] [1967] [US Import] | ![Cool Hand Luke [Blu-ray] [1967] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sB-VO01jL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.d. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy Used: £11.69
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15812
Format: Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000025037
UPC: 085391156819
EAN: 0085391156819
ASIN: B0017TYPIG
Theatrical Release Date: November 1, 1967
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career and cemented his place as a beautiful, rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s' disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to beat loner Luke's cool out of him. It's a classic rebel-against-the-repressive-institution story in the line of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Shawshank Redemption. Certain moments have become classics--particularly the hardboiled egg-eating contest and the immortal line (drooled by Strother Martin, as a sadistic redneck prison officer): "What we have here is a failure to communicate". And don't forget, Luke is also the source of the oft-quoted driving ditty: "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, right here on the dashboard of my car." --Jim Emerson
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 Inspirationally cool November 5, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
"What we've got here is failure to communicate!". The prision warden says this as he tries to humiliate and break Paul Newman's character Luke.Luke is the hero of the prison population for his non-conformative style. This is an awe inspiring film with some truely great pieces of character acting. Paul Newman and George Kennedy are the two main stars, with Strother Martin strong as the warden. Kennedy is the prision hard man, who just can't get the better of Luke in a bare knuckle prison yard scrap. Luke just won't stay down. The scenes as the two work on the chain gangs are some of the best in the film. Pual Newman is immense as the con who just won't reform. He has never ever done as he was told, and won't now, even in when beaten and tested to the physical limits in jail. When his mother dies, Luke begins a spiral towards self destruction, questioning everything from the system to God. Luke is the anti-establishment hero that so many of our modern actors try to portray but are left not even fit to polish Newan's dusty prison boots. Sharp filming and clever use of music make this a film that rises above most. It is so good it is well worth watching again and again. "He had that ole Luke smile". Cool as you like Luke!
My all time favourite film. August 26, 2000
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love this movie. There's not a lot else I can say. The sheer determination of Luke not to conform is inspirational, although the feeling that his fate could have been so different is never allowed to slip too far from your mind. An outstanding performance from Paul Newman, backed up by the superb George Kennedy et al. A truly outstanding piece of cinema. I also liked the book - you get a much richer picture of whats going on behind that Cool Hand Luke smile....
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