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DVD Cool Hand Luke
Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career, and cemented his place as a beautiful-rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to beat loner Luke's cool out of him. It's a classic rebel-against-the-repressive-institution story in the line of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Shawshank Redemption. Certain moments have become classics--particularly the hardboiled egg-eating contest, and the immortal line (drooled by Strother Martin, as a sadistic redneck prison officer), "What we have here is a failure to communicate." And don't forget, Luke is also the source of the oft-quoted driving ditty, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, right here on the dashboard of my car..." He is cool, all right. The digital video disc is in anamorphic widescreen and digital stereo. --Jim Emerson
I grew up watching this movie... its a movie I seem to never get bored with. Paul newman is an awesome actor, and if you are a fan of his, this is a must have in your movie collection!!!!
Cool Hand Luke one of my Favorite Movies
This is a great movie. Man they don't make like this anymore.
They Don't Get Much Cooler Than This
Movies and movie characters just don't come cooler than they do in "Cool Hand Luke." The movie's legendary. Almost everyone has seen it, almost everyone has loved it, and almost everyone thinks it's Paul Newman's best performance. Having only seen Newman in 2 movies, I don't know if that's true or not...But it's possible. Newman plays Luke, who is sentenced to 2 years on the chain gang for destroying munincipal property (he was cutting the heads off parking meters). The chain gang is a pretty unpleasant place; The Captain (Strother Martin) is a sadistic man with a very strange voice, the work environment is harsh...But unlike most prison-oriented movies, all the characters are pretty cool. One of the characters that Luke quickly befriends is Dragline (George Kennedy, who won an Oscar for his portrayal and definitely deserved it), who finds Luke intriguing. Indeed he is, he's one of the most intriguing and coolest characters I've ever seen on screen. Throughout the whole movie, he makes the best of his situation (even though he frequently attempts to escape). No matter what is done to him, it never breaks his spirit. Not even in the final scene. This movie's a year away from hitting 40 years old and it hasn't aged a bit. It's still as entertaining and as relevant as it was 39 years ago. All the performances are wonderful (two familar faces have small roles in the movie; Dennis Hopper and Harry Dean Stanton (who was billed as "Dean Stanton") and incredibly likeable. There's many classic scenes in the film ("What we've got here is failure to communicate" and the "egg-eating scene" and the final scene). I know people who don't like old movies. If it came out after 1980, they won't watch it. I think not liking this movie is difficult; It's the epitome of good entertainment.
It's got something for everybody to enjoy. Anyway, in case I haven't established this with everything I've said. Great movie, don't miss it...
This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 06 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to land on his feet? Beautiful black-and-white cinematography by James Wong Howe won an Oscar, as did performances by Douglas and Patricia Neal. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Melvyn Douglas - Patricia Neal Director(s): Martin Ritt DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 6 to 7 days
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One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Milos Forman DVD Release Date: Released the 17 December 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fellow, Burt Reynolds plays a strapping hunter-gatherer in urban clothes, Ned Beatty is a sweaty, weak-willed boy-man, and Ronny Cox essays a spirited, neighborly type. Together they decide to answer the ancient call of men testing themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river. What they don't understand until it is too late is that they have ventured into Dickey's variation on the American underbelly, a wild, lawless, dangerous (and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jon Voight - Burt Reynolds - Ned Beatty Director(s): John Boorman DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Warren Beatty - Faye Dunaway Director(s): Arthur Penn DVD Release Date: Released the 18 May 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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