Amazon.com Essentials:
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. --Jim
Emerson
Amazon.com Essentials:
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
