DVD 127 mins
NR (Not Rated)
Cool Hand Luke
Warner Bros. (11/1/1967)
In Collection
#146

Seen It:
No

Owner:
Ben
Drama
USA  /  English

Paul Newman Luke
George Kennedy Dragline
Strother Martin The Captain

Director Stuart Rosenberg

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..." He is cool, all right. The digital video disc is in anamorphic widescreen and digital stereo. --Jim Emerson

Edition Details
Edition Widescreen
Barcode 085391103721
Region Region 1
Release Date 2/8/2005
Packaging Jewel Case
Screen Ratio 1.85 (16:9) Letterboxed
2.35:1
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 1.0
French Dolby Digital 1.0
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailers
Personal Details
Purchase Date 9/15/2005
Purchase Price $9.99
Store Best Buy
Condition New (Still Sealed)
Current Value $9.99
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