In early 1950s Florida, decorated World War II veteran Lucas “Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for cutting parking meters off their poles one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in a prison camp run by a stern warden known as the Captain (Strother Martin), along with Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), a taciturn rifleman nicknamed “the man with no eyes” because he always wears mirrored sunglasses. Carr (Clifton James), the floorwalker, tells the new prisoners the rules. Even minor violations are punished by “a night in the box”, a small square room with limited air and very little room to move.Cool Hand Luke 1967 Movie Download.
Luke refuses to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners’ leader, Dragline (George Kennedy). When the pair have a boxing match, the prisoners and guards watch with interest. Luke is severely outmatched by his larger opponent but refuses to acquiesce. Eventually, Dragline refuses to continue the fight, but Luke’s tenacity earns the prisoners’ respect and draws the guards’ attention. He later wins a poker game by bluffing with a hand worth nothing. Luke says, “sometimes, nothing can be a real cool hand”, prompting Dragline to nickname him “Cool Hand Luke”.
After a visit from his sick mother, Arletta (Jo Van Fleet), Luke becomes more optimistic about his situation. He continually confronts the Captain and the guards, and his sense of humor and independence prove both contagious and inspiring to the other prisoners. Luke’s struggle for supremacy peaks when he leads a work crew in a seemingly impossible but successful effort to complete a road-paving job in less than a day. The other prisoners start to idolize him after he makes and wins a spur-of-the-moment bet that he can eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour.