With this Luke the Cold Hand Poster, rediscover one of Paul Newman’s most famous roles. Its vintage style will be perfect for your decoration!
- Paper characteristics:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- recycled paper, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for Total protection.
- FREE STANDARD DELIVERY.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this Cool Hand Luke Poster
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison-themed film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy, whose performance won an Academy Award. In the title role, Newman plays Luke, an inmate in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. The film, set in the early 1950s, is based on Donn Pearce’s book Cool Hand Luke (1965).
Pearce sold the original story to Warner Bros., who then hired him to write the screenplay. Due to his lack of film experience, the studio brought in Frank Pierson to rework the script. Newman biographer Marie Edelman Borden wrote that the “tough and honest” script incorporated elements from earlier films, including Newman’s other 1967 film, Hombre. Roger Ebert cited Cool Hand Luke as an anti-establishment film made during the emergence of popular opposition to the Vietnam War. Filming took place in the San Joaquin River Delta region of California; The setting, which mimics a Deep South prison farm, is based on photographs and measurements taken by a crew the filmmakers sent to a Road prison in Gainesville, Florida. The film uses Christian imagery.
Upon its release, Cool Hand Luke received favorable reviews and was a box-office success. It cemented Newman’s status as one of the finest actors of the era and has been called “a touchstone of an era.” Newman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, Kennedy won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Pearce and Pierson were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Lalo Schifrin was nominated for Best Original Score. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for the National Film Registry, deeming it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The film has a 100% rating on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, and the prison warden’s (Strother Martin) line in the film, which begins, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate,” was ranked number 11 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… list.