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Cool hand Luke

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

Cool hand Luke

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.

Cool hand Luke

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.

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