Cool Hand Luke
Unflappable chain-gang inmate
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 film starring Paul Newman as a defiant prisoner who refuses to submit to authority.
The title character's name has become shorthand for someone who stays calm under pressure, maintains composure against the odds, or rebels against the system with unflappable grace: He handled the crisis like Cool Hand Luke.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- prison farmDetention center with agriculture
- eggsReproductive cells in shells
- hard boiled eggsFully cooked in shell
- chain gangShackled convict work crew
Paul Newman · boss · defiance · rebel · escape · sweat · shackles · Southern · warden · poker · bluff · loner · stubborn · road · tar · boxing · dignity · punishment
- 60s CinemaDr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Lawrence of Arabia
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- Classic FilmsCasablanca, Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, Some Like It Hot, Vertigo
- 1967Summer of Love, Six-Day War, Monterey Pop, Super Bowl I, Thurgood Marshall
Cool Hand Lukehothead
Impetuous, easily angered person
loose cannon · short fuse · quick-tempered · powder keg · berserker
Cool Hand Lukecompany man
Employee devoted to employer
conformist · yes-man · bootlicker · lackey · authoritarian
Cool Hand Lukeprison warden
Head of correctional facility
Nurse Ratched · authority figure · the system · prison guard · jailer
cool, cooler, coolest, coolness, coolly, cooling, cooled, hand, hands