Cool Hand Luke

1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

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 of the prison officers.

Cast: Joe Don Baker, Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper, Anthony Zerbe, Charles Tyner, Ralph Waite, Strother Martin, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Joy Harmon

Rating: 7.751/10 from 1,128 votes