But when the Captain (Strother Martin), the prison camp warden in Cool Hand Luke, tosses it at you, it’s not trying to put a comically sophisticated spin on a chaotic situation. In fact, anything but ...

I don t know how I managed to have this cinematic blind spot for so many years, but I finally saw the movie, "Cool Hand Luke." “Cool Hand Luke” is one of those films that whenever I said I hadn’t seen ...

Throughout his long career in Hollywood, Paul Newman appeared in some of his generation's greatest films. He's best known for "The Color of Money," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," ...

The late 1960s were a radical time for the world, and therefore a radical time for cinema. The Civil Rights Act was passed, student movements raged in the US and Europe, leaders such as Martin Luther ...

Cool Hand Luke, according to press notes, "is the hard-hitting story of a World War II veteran turned convict and rebel, whose unquenchable spirit and refusal to be broken by the system becomes part ...

One of Hollywood's most beloved actors, Newman's screen presence practically defined the idea of a movie star. Famously, actor Paul Newman once joked that the epitaph on his tombstone would read: ...

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LOS ANGELES — Stuart Rosenberg, a prolific director of episodic television who is best known for directing the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” has died. He was 79. Rosenberg died Thursday of a heart ...