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Set in the southern United States, Luke is caught cutting off parking meters and is sentenced to the "chain gang."

Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in...

Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival.

A defiant chain-gang prisoner suffers a 'failure to communicate' in this searing drama. Includes new commentary and all new featurettes: The Making of Cool Hand Luke and a profile of novelist, co-screenwriter and the real 'Cool Hand Luke' Donn Pearce.