Minneapolis Cool Hand Luke

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Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 01/01/1967
Running Time: 126 mins
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Dennis Hopper
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Writer: Donn Pearce
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Cool Hand Luke

...or: How To Break a Man's Spirit in Ten Easy Lessons. This richly quotable, thoroughly enjoyable late-Sixties classic stars a pup-young Paul Newman as the prototypical slacker of the title. Arrested for an act of alcohol- and boredom-fueled vandalism, he is sentenced to two years on a Deep South chain gang. (A little harsh, no?) Here, he falls into an immediate family of cons played by Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker, Harry Dean Stanton, and George Kennedy--all looking unrecognizably young, save Stanton, who has always looked 49. Seemingly forsaken by God, Luke and his beefcakey crew bond via soul-killing road work, being tormented by the guards, and, when the mood strikes, escaping. Their Sisyphean existence is aptly captured by director Stuart Rosenberg, who imbues the film with an odd yet necessary sense of the interminable. Never as corny as it threatens to be, Cool Hand Luke plays like an unforced Christ allegory: Luke is beaten, and then he rises--an ever-motivating savior...with a failure to communicate. (Joseph Golden) — Joseph Golden