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Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 1967

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Action, Drama, Crime

User Score

77%

Original Title

Cool Hand Luke

Production Companies

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Jalem Productions

Director

Stuart Rosenberg

Budget

$3,200,000

Revenue

$16,217,773

Description

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.