Cool Hand Luke

1967 127 min Drama, Crime

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

IMDb 8.0 RT 100 Metacritic 92

budget $3,200,000 earnings $16,217,773 return 5.1x

director Stuart Rosenberg

writers Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce, Hal Dresner

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