Godlight’s latest, “Cool Hand Luke,” is based on Donn Pearce’s 1965 novel rather than the ’67 movie starring Paul Newman as the title’s heroic inmate — meaning we don’t get the ...

There he worked on a chain gang. Afterward, he wrote a fascinating novel based on his experiences called Cool Hand Luke. It became a movie starring Paul Newman. You couldn't tell from the film ...

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle ... Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, Magnum Force and Sudden Impact have been selected for hi ...

That time he spent in prison provided the material for Cool Hand Luke. Not only did Pearce work on a chain gang, but he also spent time in “the box,” an outhouse used for solitary confinement.

Fifty years ago today, Paul Newman introduced moviegoers to Lucas Jackson, a rebellious man who becomes a hero to his fellow prison camp members for his apparent fearlessness in Cool Hand Luke.

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because ...

unveiled director Stuart Rosenberg’s prison drama Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman ... and individual conflict on a southern chain gang, is the product of Jack Lemmon’s Jalem Productions ...

It was being introduced to a brand of Americana. Cool Hand Luke is Paul Newman as the prisoner on a southern chain gang who transcends the brutal pressure of a warden and group of guards who hate ...

But I Thought Trump Said the Other Countries Pay the Tariffs The film Cool Hand Luke (1967) is now 55 years old; that has no particular significance save that it’s when I finally watched it for ...