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Cool Hand Luke (Blu-ray)

"What We've Got Here is...Failure to Communicate."

Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, English, Spanish, French, Subtitled

His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang. Paul Newman plays one of his best-loved roles as Cool Hand Luke, the loner who won't--or can't--comform to the arbitrary rules of his captivity.

"...rivals only One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as the best movie ever made about men locked up."  Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily
"Marvelous screen entertainment."  Clive Hirschhorn, The Warner Bros. Story
"Paul Newman and George Kennedy are at their best at this popular prison drama..."  Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.com
"Classic anti-hero story still packs a punch."  James Plath, DVD Town
"...one of our most lived-in and pleasurably paced odes to nonconformity."  Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
"What we got here...is a classic Paul Newman drama."  Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan
"One of the last great men-in-chains films...Martin shines in his supporting role as the oily warden..."  VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

Editor's Note

In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose cool defiance of the sadistic warden and bullying inmates earns him the title "Cool Hand Luke." But as the prisoners' respect for Luke grows into hero worship, he finds that he must risk everything in order to live up to their expectations. Filled with dozens of memorable scenes (Luke eating 50 eggs) and quotable lines ("What we have here is a failure to communicate."), COOL HAND LUKE is a testament to excellent screenwriting (Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson) and Newman's charm and skill as an actor. The film also features an outstanding supporting cast that includes George Kennedy, Strother Martin, and early screen appearances by Dennis Hopper and Harry Dean Stanton.

Features

	Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo
	Interactive Menus
	Newly Restored & Remastered!
	Scene Selection
	Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
	This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Warner
	Release Date: 9/9/2008
	Running Time: 127 minutes
	Original Release Date: 1967
	Catalog ID: 1000025037
	UPC: 00085391156819
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English
	Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
	Widescreen 2.40:1

Cast & Crew

	George Kennedy
	Jo Van Fleet
	Clifton James
	Strother Martin
	Harry Dean Stanton
	Lou Antonio
	Paul Newman
	J.D. Cannon
	Luke Askew
	Robert Drivas
	Joe Don Baker
	Morgan Woodward
	Dennis Hopper
	Sam O'Steen - Editor
	Lalo Schifrin - Composer
	Conrad L. Hall - Director of Photography
	Gordon Carroll - Producer
	Frank Pierson - Screenwriter
	Cary Odell - Production Designer
	Donn Pearce - Screenwriter
	Stuart Rosenberg - Director

Awards


Oscar (1968)
	Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
	George Kennedy, Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Golden Globe (1968)
	George Kennedy, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor

Oscar (1968)
	Lalo Schifrin, Nominee, Best Music, Original Music Score

Golden Globe (1968)
	Paul Newman, Nominee, Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama

Oscar (1968)
	Paul Newman, Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role

Memorable Quotes

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."----Captain (Strother Martin) to Luke (Paul Newman)

"Small town, not much to do in the evenin'."----Luke, explaining why he cut the heads off parking meters

"I can eat fifty eggs."----Luke|"Nobody can eat fifty eggs."----Dragline (George Kennedy)

"Wish you'd stop bein' so good to me, cap'n." Luke to Captain, after he's been put in chains

"He's a natural born world--shaker."----Dragline, about Luke