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List Price: $19.98Amazon.com's Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.99 (30%)Prices subject to change.
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929023172
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 633
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1967
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Still shakin' the bush, boss.
Paul Newman shines (and sweats buckets) in his iconic role as the title character of this 1967 film, a ne'er do well from a southern burg who ends up on a chain gang. He's busted for cutting the "heads" off of parking meters while on a drunken spree, but by the end of this sly allegory, astute viewers will glean what his real crime is: being a non-conformist. Stuart Rosenberg's direction is assured; as is the script by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson ("Dog Day Afternoon") The highlights include Strother ... Read More
Rating:  - New Deluxe Edition due out on September 9th, 2008!
This is a new Deluxe Edition of Cool Hand Luke, with new special features. There will be a making-of featurette called "A Natural-Born World-Shaker: Making Cool Hand Luke," which the press release describes as "an in-depth look at the creation of an uncompromising classic." There will also be an audio commentary with Paul Newman biographer Eric Lax, and the theatrical trailer. Only the theatrical trailer and some text production notes are on the old DVD. There will also be a Blu-ray version.
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