Paul Newman enjoys one of his most memorable and iconic cool roles as Cool Hand Luke in director Stuart Rosenberg’s tough, haunting and richly enjoyable 1967 prison movie classic.

Gutsy prisoner Luke Jackson works on the chain gang in the American Deep South but he refuses to be broken by the unforgiving, cruel system and the heavy hand of authority. He keeps escaping and being recaptured, turning himself into an icon for the cons, who admire him. But the camp staff works to crush Luke…

Newman is stupendous in one of his best performances and he was Oscar nominated for the fourth time, but it was George Kennedy who won a best supporting actor Oscar in a memorable portrayal of nastiness as a bullying prisoner called Dragline, whose boss role on the chain gang is threatened by Newman’s ...