This upcoming September 9, 2008, Warner Home Entertainment will be releasing the 1967 classic “Cool Hand Luke” staring Paul Newman. The Deluxe Edition will be avaliable in both formats Standard and Blu-ray. Newly remastered, the film includes a set of all new featurettes, including “The Making of Cool Hand Luke,” a profile of novelist, co-screenwriter and the real “Cool Hand Luke” Donn Pearce, and Luke, a poetic documentary showing one day of film production on a country road near Stockton, California.
The was nominated for four Academy Awards in 1968 – for Best Music Score, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Supporting Actor categories,with co-star George Kennedy winning a Best Supporting Actor
Synopsis: Newman, who was Oscar-nominated for Best actor for his role, gives one of the most powerful performances of his career as Lucas ?Luke? Jackson, a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who refuses to buckle under to authority, while repeatedly escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because of his gumption but the head of the gang hates him and tries to break him by beating him often. Ultimately Luke gains the respect of all the convicts but with each escape and return he is subjected to more and more harsh punishments by the sadistic guards. This film is considered one of the most important of the ?60s, a decade in which the theme of protest against the establishment was being played out daily in real-life events.
