Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)
by Stuart Rosenberg
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Actor: George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Paul Newman, Strother MartinDirector: Stuart Rosenberg
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Producer: Carter De Haven Jr.
Producer: Gordon Carroll
Writer: Donn Pearce
Writer: Frank Pierson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- A defiant chain-gang prisoner suffers a "failure to communicate" in this searing drama. Paul Newman Shines in the title role, George Kennedy as his sidekick won an Oscar(R).Year: 1967 Director: Stuart Rosenberg Starring: Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, J.D. CannonNewly restored and remastered!New commentary by Eric Lax (noted writer and Paul Newman biographer) All-new featurettes inclu
DVD Reviews of Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)
DVD Review: my favorite movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The stakes were high. They were playing for meatloaf. Meatloaf like you wouldn't believe,
unless you've tried it yourself. Sunday meatloaf. Three Sunday's worth.
Sam folded. It was Mike, Simon, and Harry. Mike stared at Harry. Harry folded.
Mike looked at his cards. He had three ladies. Pretty, pretty ladies. When he'd gone for four,
he'd gotten nothing. Still, three pretty, pretty ladies.
-excerpt from Cool Hand Luke, a chapter allegory of the movie, published free on an emergency end times Sirius star system website (google Individuate Church)
It's a sort of James Dean situation. The movie is very tragic, likely to trigger a powerful identification in the rebel personality type.
the corn bread, classic.
He never quite pulls the jail break, because it's just a movie. in real life it can be done
DVD Review: Prison life is not good for anyone....
Summary: 3 Stars
I guess I was less enamored with this film than most reviewers. Paul Newman, of course, turns in his customary bravo performance, but at the end of the day many viewers will have difficulty identifying with the protagonist of this film. (Paul Newman, as "Luke.") Luke has a two-year sentence at hard labor, and seems to go out of his way to make things difficult for himself. The terrible truth of prison life is that the guards and administration have absolute power over you, and prison is accordingly no place to try to assert individualism. That is the basic moral of this not-uplifting story but Luke cannot seem to get this notion through his head.
This one is probably a realistic portrayal of 1950s era prison life. But it is not a film I would care to watch more than once. RJB.
DVD Review: Poor sound
Summary: 3 Stars
Was so excited to get on Blue ray But not happy when watching, played on new 46 in Samsung LED with surrondsound Great picture Very POOR Sound.. DVD Review: A Beautiful and Moving Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The acting and directing in this movie is outstanding. You will find yourself feeling for these prison inmates, rooting for Cool Hand as he takes on eating 50 eggs, and you will definitely find yourself despising the warden and guards.DVD Review: "You an original. That's what you are."
Summary: 5 Stars
"Cool Hand Luke" was adapted from the novel by Don Pearce, who spent some time on a Florida chain gang and based his leading character, Lucas Jackson, one-third on a real man he knew in prison, one-third on himself, and the rest is fiction. Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) is sent to a Southern prison camp for "maliciously destroying municipal property while under the influence" -busting parking meters, where the prisoners work on a chain gang doing road work. A big, boisterous inmate nicknamed "Dragline" (George Kennedy) at first sees Luke as a challenge to his position, but soon comes to admire Luke's daring and stubbornness. His fellow prisoners find Luke's fearlessness inspiring, but the prison warden and guards are uneasy with it.
George Kennedy won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the friendly, simple country guy who idolizes Luke. He's one of many notable character actors in the film's large supporting cast. "Cool Hand Luke" harkens back to the prison films of the 1930s, also produced by Warner Brothers, in its social conscience message and antihero protagonist. It particularly reminds me of "I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang" (1932), written by another man with experience on a Southern chain gang. "Cool Hand Luke" is beautifully shot by cinematographer Conrad Hall, who would win an Academy Award much later for another Newman film, "Road to Perdition" (2002). I don't think I've ever seen a camera move so much on landscapes. It's captivating.
One thing that characterizes films with enduring greatness is that they invite more than one reading of the material. "Cool Hand Luke" is a character study of Lucas Jackson, a man whose stubbornness is less a conviction than it is self-destruction. Or perhaps it is not about Luke at all, but about how those around him react to his unwillingness to conform. If we are to view Luke simply as an inmate, he is a masochistic fool. If we interpret the prison as a microcosm of the greater society, he is the nonconformist through whom the rest of the population lives vicariously and whom authorities fear simply because he does not fear them. The prison has nitpicky rules, but there doesn't seem to be much reason to disobey them. Yet Luke cannot bring himself to live that way. Perhaps the conclusion is that we need people who are a little nuts to flout society's norms sometimes.
The DVD (Warner Brothers 2008): Bonus features are one featurette, an audio commentary, and a theatrical trailer (3 min). "A Natural-Born World Shaker: Making Cool Hand Luke" (30 min) includes recent interviews with director Stuart Rosenberg, screenwriter Frank Pierson, Paul Newman biographer Eric Lax, novelist Dan Pearce, and many members of the cast and crew who talk about getting the film made, camaraderie on set, and filming. The audio commentary is by Newman biographer Eric Lax, who did not participate in the film, so he has a scholar's view, not personal recollections. He talks about the making of the film, its anti-authoritarian themes, characters, sets, and takes us through the film. Subtitles available in English SDH, French. Dubbing available in French.
Description of Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: PgPaul 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..." He is cool, all right. --Jim Emerson
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