Cool Hand Luke
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… From TMDB
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60 of 204 · most liked firstTonight's movie. Cool Hand Luke (1967). First time seeing it.
unlabelledView post →Saw Cool Hand Luke for the first time today, @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. In many ways it’s exactly the ‘60s rebel movie you expect, but I like that part of it is also that Luke is just a weird goofball. And, man, is George Kennedy having fun.
unlabelledView post →If we’re talking film it’s either Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke or Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief
unlabelledView post →R.I.P. the great Lalo Schifrin. He changed the sound of movie music forever. So many classic scores “Cool Hand Luke” “Enter The Dragon” “Bullitt” “Dirty Harry” “Kelly’s Heroes” to name a few. Here we a few years back at the Oscars when he received his honorary Governors award. A super cool guy.
unlabelledView post →My favorite movie at 20 was "Cool Hand Luke." Fun fact: the movie was released in Japan as 暴力脱獄 (Boryoku Datsugoku): Violent Prison Break. Which... it wasn't violent at all? I mean one guy got beat up a little during the first attempt, but overall the breaks were bloodless. The violence came later.
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 26 January 1925. Paul Newman, one of the greatest film actors, was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA. His films include Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and The Sting. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Colour of Money.
unlabelledView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Cool Hand Luke (1965) by Donn Pearce was adapted in 1967. Pearce cowrote the screenplay so the film is faithful. The film has many iconic lines that were added. While both take an anti-authoritarian turn, the film makes Luke an almost Christ-like figure. ⛓️🥚⚖️ #filmsky #booksky
unlabelledView post →Only other movie I can put in that category is Cool Hand Luke.
unlabelledView post →Solarbabies (1986) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!. > The film was widely panned by critics as a nonsensical, derivative sci-fi mess, criticized for its silly dialogue, poor acting, blatant rip-offs from Blade Runner and Mad Max, and a nonsensical plot involving roller-skating kids, a magical glowing orb, and a lame villain, though some found it enjoyable as "80s cheese" due to its unintentional humor and nostalgic value. It bombed theatrically but became a cult favorite on…
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 26 September 2008. Paul Newman, one of the greatest film actors, died, (aged 83). His many films include: Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and The Sting. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Colour of Money.
unlabelledView post →I am morally obligated to pounce on this skeet and share one of my favorite photos of Paul Newman. He was making Cool Hand Luke but considering a film version of The Garrick Year.
unlabelledView post →57 Years ago my parents went on their first date and watched Cool Hand Luke. My dad dropped her off after the movie and later called her to inform her they would be getting married in August and have six kids.
unlabelledView post →Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of Mission: Impossible and film scores including Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, and Bullitt, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93. variety.com/2025/music/n...
unlabelledView post →RIP Lalo Schifrin, who composed some of the most iconic movie scores in history including DIRTY HARRY, COOL HAND LUKE and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR as well as this legendary, beyond-iconic TV theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SY...
unlabelledView post →This is the only Jesus imagery allowed in a movie. Everyone else, you got to cut that crap out. We only had one slot and it went to Cool Hand Luke.
unlabelledView post →3. provide context - if it's a still from a movie, name the movie and the actors. this gets bumped up to 1. if the entire reason you're posting it is to evoke the idea of "Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke" and then you describe the egg in his mouth 4. NOW make the joke
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 26 January 1925. Paul Newman, one of the greatest film actors, was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA. His films include: Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and The Sting. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Colour of Money. #100Today
unlabelledView post →Paul Newman actually ate 150 eggs in Cool Hand Luke because they had to film the scene three times
unlabelledView post →Lalo Schifrin passed away. Maybe the most fun movie and TV composer, of all my faves. Enter the Dragon, Bullitt, Dirty Harry movies, Matt Helm movies, Cool Hand Luke, Mission Impossible, Mannix, Starsky & Hutch. A jazzy coolness in much of his work. His music makes you feel like the lead in a movie.
unlabelledView post →George Lucas really blew it when he called that movie Empire Strikes Back instead of Cool Hand, Luke.
unlabelledView post →"Alien" was the 1st film to have a spaceship crew member look like this. Any movie with Harry Dean Stanton is a worthy watch..."Alien" was the 3nd movie I saw Harry Dean act in. The first was "Cool Hand Luke"....the second "The Godfather II". "Lucky" is simply magnificent!!!! 🎬🎥⭐ #Filmsky #HarryDean
unlabelledView post →Remembering the great George Kennedy, born 100 years ago today. The Oscar winner for COOL HAND LUKE seemed to appear in every other movie during the late 60s-early 70s, and showed comedic flair in the NAKED GUN series. He died in 2016.
unlabelledView post →RIP to the great composer Lalo Schifrin of #film scores such as Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, Mission Impossible and many more. youtu.be/DQs7QS9dx0g?... #RIP #LaloSchifrin
unlabelledView post →Share one of your favorite film posters ..🎬 Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ) #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Easily COOL HAND LUKE. It was the first movie where I was taught how intentional filmmaking was; which sounds dumb to admit, but watching it in HS and having the bones of each color, shot choice, and symbol pointed out was like learning how magic works.
unlabelledView post →The Film: Cool Hand Luke Japanese Title: “Violence Jailbreak” - 暴力脱獄
unlabelledView post →Joy Harmon, the Woman Who Washed the Car in 'Cool Hand Luke,' Dies at 87 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
unlabelledView post →Don't see how it can be anything but Cool Hand Luke. He shares time with Redford in Butch Cassidy and The Sting but Cool Hand Luke is such a clear "this movie was made for this single star to carry it" kind of movie.
unlabelledView post →RIP to a composing *legend* in Lalo Schifrin. Wrote the original "Mission: Impossible” theme and TV score along with Starsky and Hutch and movie scores for Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry series, THX1138, The Amityville Horror, Enter the Dragon, and Bullitt among MANY others. variety.com/2025/music/n...
unlabelledView post →Cool Hand Luke, nice feelgood movie that I finally just got around to seeing
unlabelledView post →“Cool Hand Luke in 1967... was the first major Hollywood film to show sunlight flaring into the camera lens, an effect that would have had the shot rejected in the days when studios policed each production with great rigour. Once[Conrad] Hall had got away with this everyone started doing it...”
unlabelledView post →Actor George Kennedy (1925-2016) was born 100 years ago today in New York City. His towering height, heavy build & deep baritone voice led to his casting in many tough-guy roles. His portrayal of Dragline in COOL HAND LUKE (1967) earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He was a decorated WWII vet.
unlabelledView post →What do you do when the news out there is all bad? Me, I go to movies. Gonna be a 4-movie week: Saw The Drama Sunday, Ready or Not 2 Monday, O Brother, Where Art Thou? today, will see Cool Hand Luke Saturday.
unlabelledView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 11 - prison in a movie Cool Hand Luke #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Cool Hand Luke (great movie)
unlabelledView post →My wife once taught a class on books that had kind of disappeared because the film versions overwhelmed them. Cool Hand Luke was at the top of the list, and it was a solid book. Movie had different goals (and a shirtless Paul Newman), which explained some of it.
unlabelledView post →I think this is one of those movies that fall into the "perfect" category, at least for me. It just has everything going for it. Under the genre of prison pictures, it's right up there with Cool Hand Luke in my film library.
unlabelledView post →R.I.P. Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of "Mission: Impossible" and film scores including Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry and Bullitt. He died Thursday (five days after I'd posted on his birthday) of complications from pneumonia. He was 93. variety.com/2025/music/n...
unlabelledView post →I’m about halfway through watching Cool Hand Luke for the first time and at this point in the movie the entire plot seems to hinge on whether or not Cool Hand Luke can eat 50 eggs in one sitting and like what even is this?
unlabelledView post →I rewatch "Barry Lyndon" a minimum of once a year and it gets better every time. Honestly wondering if it might be my favorite movie ever. But there's also "Casablanca" and "Cool Hand Luke" and I just can't choose one. They're all perfect in my eyes.
unlabelledView post →#octobermoviechallenge 10/17 - Someone sentenced to prison in a movie Cool Hand Luke (1967) "No one can eat 50 eggs" #moviesky #filmsky #actorsky #directorsky #sassawards
unlabelledView post →I remember Paul Newman playing and singing that in the movie Cool Hand Luke. 👍
unlabelledView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge Day 1 Laboring in a movie Cool Hand Luke (1967)
unlabelledView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge Day 1 - laboring in a movie Lucas Jackson - Cool Hand Luke #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Just seen Cool Hand Luke for the first time - excellent film. Very biblical overtones.
unlabelledView post →I’m teaching Existentialism & just watched half of Cool Hand Luke for the first time and … this is an existentialist film??
unlabelledView post →*time traveling back to 1967 and inventing film twitter discourse* the Oscars nominated Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner over Cool Hand Luke??? I’m going to slap Bob Hope
unlabelledView post →#FLORIDA MOVIE ALERT! @tcmtv.bsky.social is showing COOL HAND LUKE at 8 pm EST. The movie was based on a book by a former Florida chain gang inmate & partially filmed here too. www.tcm.com/video/28974/...
unlabelledView post →#TCMparty It's a great day of Paul Newman movies on TCM: Rachel, Rachel Somebody Up There Likes Me Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Hud Cool Hand Luke Nobody's Fool Classic film lovers unite!
unlabelledView post →The Academy Museum is reopening today with screenings resuming as scheduled. I’ll be there to introduce, and watch, our 2p COOL HAND LUKE screening. I really need a movie right now.
unlabelledView post →He was my first movie star crush. I saw him in Cool Hand Luke in the movie theater and I was hooked. I think I was 13. I still had The Sting, Butch Cassidy, Slap Shot, The Verdict and a whole library of great performances to enjoy. On top of it all, he seems to have been a genuinely great man. RIP
unlabelledView post →Iconic Movie Scenes: Failure to communicate scene. Cool Hand Luke (1967) youtu.be/_WUyZXhLHMk?...
unlabelledView post →BOTD New Hollywood writer Frank Pierson! Credits incl Cool Hand Luke, Anderson Tapes, and . . . Dog Day Afternoon - which we just covered on that 70s Movie Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Interview w/ @gointothestory.bsky.social: gointothestory.blcklst.com/written-inte...
unlabelledView post →Happy 93rd Birthday day, Lalo Schifrin. Composer, Musician, Arranger of some of the most iconic film scores of all time. Mission Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry and Bullitt. youtu.be/hq8YD7-Aimw?...
unlabelledView post →Happy 93rd Birthday to Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin, born June 21, 1932, in Buenos Aires, Argentina! I think I'll listen to some of his music today: "Mannix" ("The Girl Who Came In With The Tide"), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), Charley Varrick (1973)... so many excellent film & TV scores!
unlabelledView post →is Cool Hand Luke a Wet Men Film? It feels like one, to me
unlabelledView post →Movie time! #11 of 100 #FamousMovies I haven't seen yet Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Starring Paul Newman
unlabelledView post →When the film Cool Hand Luke was prepared for international distribution, the filmmakers took great care to ensure the title character represented a recognizable archetype in each target market. This process is known as Lukealization
unlabelledView post →Bite-Sized Book Reviews: "Cool Hand Luke" by Donn Pearce is known for two things—the textured description of life on a chain gang, (Pearce did time) and the iconic anti-hero at the heart of the story. The film adaptation with Paul Newman as Luke was amazing. So is the book. Two thumbs up.
unlabelledView post →Remembering film icon and Cool Hand Luke star Paul Newman on the anniversary of his death. . R.I.P. (1925 - 2008)
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