Cool Hand Luke (1967)








After a drunken spree, happy-go-lucky Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years on a chain gang. The administrators of the road gang to which he is sent are cynical, brutal and totally dedicated to quenching any spark of spirit in the prisoners. But Luke's habit of never giving up is soon to make him into a legend.


Books with substantial mentioning of Cool Hand Luke

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 60s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Paul Newman
New York, 1971

Books with an entry on Cool Hand Luke

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles with substantial mentioning of Cool Hand Luke

Simon Braund, The Top 10 Prison Breaks, in: Empire, nr. 210 (December), 2006 pp. 184-185

Articles with an entry on Cool Hand Luke

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49