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Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas Director: Stuart Rosenberg Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 127 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: June 25, 1997 Theatrical Release Date: November 1, 1967 Studio: Warner Home Video
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A defiant chain-gang prisoner suffers a "failure to communicate" in this searing drama. Paul Newman Shines in the title role, George Kennedy as his sidekick won an OscarR. Year: 1967 Director: Stuart Rosenberg Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon
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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
