Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

The man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.

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Release Date

11/1/1967

Runtime

127 mins

Overview

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$3,200,000

Revenue

$16,217,773

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A portrait of a man who refuses to be broken by the brutal machinery of a prison system, even as that refusal costs him everything. It's a study in stubborn defiance against dehumanizing authority.

Mood

DefiantBleakTense

Themes

FreedomPowerMortality

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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