Cool Hand Luke

After Luke cuts his chains with the axe, he ties the chains to his ankles with a strip off his trousers.

He ties his left ankle but not his right, yet as he gets up and runs away both are tied on.

When Carr gives his famous "Night in the box" speech, just after he tells Luke he hopes he won't be any trouble, he drops the spoons with a clattering sound.

In that instant, the camera cuts from a close-up to a long shot, and the cigar stump clenched in his mouth is suddenly now in his left hand.

While Luke's mother is smoking a cigarette, it gets smaller when the camera switches angles.

Just before Luke enters the church to have his talk with God, he looks toward the church which is silhouetted against the late afternoon sky.

In the next shot when he starts walking toward the church, it is dark.

During scene when Luke is cutting chains from ankles, he throws the axe off to his left.

When one of the trackers arrives, the axe head is resting on the stump with the axe handle off to the right.

Just before Luke is shot in the church window, a squib goes off so that Luke is bleeding before the bullet hits him.

Also, the glass in the window is blown outward even though Luke is being shot from the outside.

During the fight scene with Dragline, Luke is knocked down into the dirt many times and is covered with black soil by the end.

When the long shot shows Dragline walking away towards the barracks Luke has suddenly lost most of the black soil that was covering his sweat-soaked body.

During the road tarring scene, the "boss" is walking in the midst of the crew shoveling sand in the close ups (he even gets sand on his shoes, which he inexplicably, doesn't punish), yet long view shots has him walking well, well behind the road crews' working area.

Dollar bills seen during egg eating contest is Sixties-era money, not that of decades-earlier period in which movie takes place.

When the Walking Boss shoots the snake, it appears to be a western diamondback rattler.

This species is not found in the deep south where the film takes place.

At one point in the movie a "white on red" stop sign is shown.

In the film's late-1940s time period, stop signs were "black on yellow.

" Dog Boy fills Luke's plate with more food than Luke can eat, saying gleefully that Luke will be punished for not cleaning his plate by spending the night in the box.

However, as punishment for his escape attempts, Luke is already being made to spend every night in the box.

In the provocative roadside "carwash" scene, the blonde washes the car by rubbing her chest against the car windows and subsequently arouses the onlooking road crew (chain gang).

In actuality the view as seen by the crew is obscured by the car itself.

Luke sings "Plastic Jesus," a folk song that wasn't written until 1957, well after the time period of the movie (approximately 1949).

1960s vehicles are visible in the background of some scenes.

This is my favorite Paul Newman film. I saw it at the theater several times when I was a teenager.

Days ago, I decided to watch Cool Hand Luke. As the film started with the nice guitar tune, I knew it would be a great story and so it was indeed.

Cool Hand Luke (1967) : Brief Review -A prison drama glorifying an Anti-hero where Paul Newman puts his Best. In 60s decade some anti hero films and criminal films came which tried to glorify the main characters even they were not such good souls and apparently those films were loved by Critics as well as audience.

At the beginning of the film, the word displayed on the parking meter that Luke is destroying perfectly interprets the center of the film: violetThis is a movie about resistance. What the protagonist does is to continually resist, constantly destroy existing rules, and constantly destroy the existing system.

Since watching this film last night I have been struggling to understand why, as it is so well made and admired, I disliked it so much. Admittedly I had for some reason imagined it was about gambling and not a prison film.

A man eating 50 eggs is a major plot point in this film. This is seen as one of the greatest movies of all time and that rules.

Paul Newman gives a fine performance in director Stuart Rosenberg's tale of "born loser" Lucas 'Luke' Jackson, who is sentenced to a southern chain gang after he, in a drunken stupor, cut the tops off a row of parking meters. The captain of the chain gang(Strother Martin, superb) tries to tell the new men that he doesn't want any trouble, so he wont give any trouble.

I have watched a lot of movies over the course of a short lifetime. If I were to take all the movies I have watched and approximated their running time at about 100 minutes, I would be looking at about three years worth of movie watching at least.

I first saw "Cool Hand Luke" the first week it came out. Went to see it with my father at a theater on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.