Cool Hand Luke is a movie directed by Stuart Rosenberg in 1967 and based on the book of the same name by Donn Pearce, first published in 1965. The movie features Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Strother Martin, Lou Antonio, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
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Storyline
In early 1950s Florida, decorated war veteran Lucas Jackson is arrested for cutting parking meters off their poles one drunken night. Carr the floorwalker tells the rules to the new set of prisoners. Luke refuses to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners’ leader, Dragline.
Movie vs Book
Year
1967
Minutes
127
Movie Rate
8.10
Source: IMDb
Movie
Cool Hand Luke
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Country: USA
Year: 1967
Length: 2h7m
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Year
1965
Pages
304
Book Rate
8.30
S: Goodreads
Book
Cool Hand Luke
Author: Donn Pearce
Country: USA
First published in: 1965
Length: 304 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS (Writer)
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