Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 126m
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Jo Van Fleet, Strother Martin
Synopsis:
In the 1950s, a happy go lucky bum is given two years on a Florida chain gang for taking the heads of parking metres, but he clashes with the warden over his unreadiness to conform.
Review:
Classic sixties prison drama, embodying the rebelliousness of the counter-culture. Like Bonnie and Clyde it mixes comedy with deadly serious consequences, and features celebrated sequences such as the egg-eating wager and the car wash. Symbolism is present too, in the shape of the taciturn, shade-wearing prison officer, an emblem of establishment oppression for decades to come, and the messianic imagery associated with Luke himself.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 126m
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Jo Van Fleet, Strother Martin
Synopsis:
In the 1950s, a happy go lucky bum is given two years on a Florida chain gang for taking the heads of parking metres, but he clashes with the warden over his unreadiness to conform.
Review:
Classic sixties prison drama, embodying the rebelliousness of the counter-culture. Like Bonnie and Clyde it mixes comedy with deadly serious consequences, and features celebrated sequences such as the egg-eating wager and the car wash. Symbolism is present too, in the shape of the taciturn, shade-wearing prison officer, an emblem of establishment oppression for decades to come, and the messianic imagery associated with Luke himself.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 126m
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Jo Van Fleet, Strother Martin
Synopsis:
In the 1950s, a happy go lucky bum is given two years on a Florida chain gang for taking the heads of parking metres, but he clashes with the warden over his unreadiness to conform.
Review:
Classic sixties prison drama, embodying the rebelliousness of the counter-culture. Like Bonnie and Clyde it mixes comedy with deadly serious consequences, and features celebrated sequences such as the egg-eating wager and the car wash. Symbolism is present too, in the shape of the taciturn, shade-wearing prison officer, an emblem of establishment oppression for decades to come, and the messianic imagery associated with Luke himself.