For his Treat, Helgeland plainly states that 1967’s Cool Hand Luke ranks among the best of Western civilization's artistic achievements. He argues Paul Newman’s portrayal of Lucas “Luke” Jackson, a ...

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 him, and remains true to his American sense of ...

For those unaware, Cool Hand Luke is the tale of a man (Paul Newman) sent to a prison chain-gang in the deep South for a minor act of vandalism (chopping down parking meters, the futility of which ...

Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang ...

Marc Warren stars in Cool Hand Luke , a new stage adaptation of Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name, which officially opened Oct. 3 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre, following previews that ...

Stuart Rosenberg, a prolific director of episodic television who is best known for directing the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke," died March 15 of a heart attack at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home.

But after completing his first feature film — “Cool Hand Luke” — he never went back to the small screen. A gritty, riveting tale about life on a chain gang, the film stars Paul Newman as a ...

The chain gang system, ... (Chain gangs entered the popular imagination through films like 1932’s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and, later, 1967’s Cool Hand Luke.) ...