Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min
Cool Hand Luke screens 2 times at BFI Southbank between Wednesday 2 September and Sunday 27 September.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Cool Hand Luke
What it is
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.