Cool Hand Luke [1967]

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321900110372 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-02-01 Running Time: 121 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1967
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Communication breakdown Comment: Paul Newman stars as Luke along with a marvellous cast in a prison gang film set in the deep south. Luke is a former war hero who when very drunk one night starts damaging parking meters (the very beginning of the film) and ends up serving time. Although apparently a very laid back character, the death of his mother changes Luke's attitude and the film hinges on this critical moment. I've always enjoyed the film in the past on TV, but was too young to have seen it at the cinema first time round. So to see it now on DVD, in widescreen, on a large TV only emphasised just how good it really is. There are many classic scenes, the most famous of which is the car wash (for the men anyway), and the attempt to eat 50 boiled eggs. Quite a few others will leave an impression on you as well. Its Newmans film all the way but George Kennedy (also still alive at the time of writing) pushes him close as 'dragline' in the acting honours. Also listen out for Lalo Schifrin's (Jazz Pianist and Film/TV Score writer - most famously Mission Impossible) superbly atmospheric music as well. The film is currently rank 118 in the IMDB list of the top 250 films of all time. Its well worth buying at any sensible price and can be picked up cheap if you look around. Customer Rating: Summary: As sure as eggs is eggs? Comment: This film goes the whole way...Never a dull moment and transports you back to a more innocent age? Luke's a rebel who endears himself to everyone, especially George Kennedy! Without Kennedy's flawless portrayal of Dragline, it might not have been so humourous. Their double act is one to behold and carries the story throughout!!! This is memorable and also educating in human mechanics.......fantastic!!! Customer Rating: Summary: what we have here is a great movie Comment: An icon movie of doomed nonconformity in a southern prison chain gang. Much has been writen regarding this movie but for me tis the less lauded scenes that get you and keep you. If Luke talking to his dying mother in the back of a pickup; or getting two kids to help cut his leg chain aint Oscar material - what is! Customer Rating: Summary: Just excellent filmmaking Comment: Cool Hand Luke is yet again proof of Paul Newman's iconic status as a actor. Given the fact Newman was 42 when this film was made, one has to acknowledge that he was something special and cinema rarely has produced such actors with such a raw charisma, such a warmth and presence in front of the camera. This film is up there with 'The Sting' and 'Butch Cassidy' in terms of classic Newman. The script and characterisation is just as entertaining and quirky as anything else Newman has appeared in. Cool Hand Luke is more an analysis in the pride of the male ego and the systematic attempt to break it. It takes many twists and turns, but Luke always seems to have to edge over the system, his inmates and its tyrannical guards and wardens. Although its ending may seem not the one the audience could have wished for, Newman plays his role with such vigour and energy that really it doesnt matter what ending this film has - its just fun watching someone as good as Newman in a film as good as this. More Reviews