Cool Hand Luke
- Fri, Apr 24
- Sat, Apr 25
- Sun, Apr 26
- Mon, Apr 27
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg Run Time: 127 min. Release Year: 1967
Starring: George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Luke Askew, Morgan Woodward, Paul Newman
Our Page To Screen series in April is the Paul Newman starrer Cool Hand Luke!
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard’s resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy’s unbreakable will. Luke’s bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison’s dreaded solitary confinement cell, “the box,” make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce, Cool Hand Luke is a defining 1960s counter-culture film celebrating anti-authoritarianism through Newman’s iconic portrayal of a charming rebel.