Cool Hand Luke

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, 'You're an original, that's what you are!' Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Direction

Stuart Rosenberg

Screenplay

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Donn Pearce

Frank Pierson

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Hal Dresner