Cool Hand Luke DVD







Paul Newman plays Luke. A perennial loser who seems to have no purpose in Life since winning several medals in World War II. In the beginning of the movie Luke wanders aimlessly down a street cutting the "heads" off of parking meters and keeping some of the "heads" for the few coins in them.





Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]

Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.





(This very same thing happened in Atlanta, Georgia last summer and nobody would tell the police who was doing it. Obviously someone had watched the movie.)



George Kennedy won Best-Supporting Actor Oscar as "Dragline", bull of the herd of prisoners. Dragline leads the group, running gambling and the small barracks "bank", and all the other prisoners follow his example and look to him as the source of what little self-respect they have.



My favorite line in this movie is when Luke has tried to escape and has been beaten senseless the warden stands over his bruised body and says



"What we have here, is a failure to communicate."



Highly recommended for fans of Paul Newman and George Kennedy.



Gunner March, 2008