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Cool Hand Luke

The man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.

7.7(1,687)19672h 7m9

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$3.2M
Box office
$16.2M
Language
English
  • prison
  • dying and death
  • florida
  • based on novel or book
  • escape
  • loss of loved one
  • rebel
  • harassment
  • imprisonment
  • barbed wire
  • death
  • prison farm

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG1 Nov 1967
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1523 Nov 1967
    • Physical15VHS12 Apr 1999
    • Physical15DVD15 Sept 2008
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • PhysicalBlu-Ray9 Sept 2008
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical29 Mar 1968
    • PhysicalDVD12 Feb 2018
    • Digital / OTTM1 Nov 2020
  • CanadaCA

    • PhysicalDVD9 Sept 2008
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical14DVD13 Feb 2006
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical151 Nov 1967
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1623 Feb 1968
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical121 Dec 1967
    • TheatricalRe-release1 Oct 2008
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical161 Dec 1967
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalRe-Issue3 Jul 2025
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical1810 Oct 1968

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Cool Hand Luke was released on 1 November 1967.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    1/19/2019

    10/10

    Oh Luke you wild beautiful thing! Luke (Paul Newman) lands himself in a Deep South prison farm for drunkenly cutting the heads off of parking meters. Once at the farm Luke refuses to be ground down by the system and its grinning warden (a brilliant Strother Martin). As things role by Luke becomes something of a hero to his fellow inmates and this is not lost on the authority in charge of the farm. Things are sure …

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    3/16/2024

    7/10

    **Celebrate rebellion at a time when everything deserved to be questioned.** The late sixties marked the rise of a culture of rebellion and challenge to the established order. Young people, university students, minorities, suddenly society goes into upheaval and begins to question and make demands. In a very specific way, I think this film fits very well into this movement, giving us the story of a man who made mi…

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