Strother Martin(the warden="Captain") should have gotten some sort of award for this. No one could have done it better. Perfect timing, delivery, everything.
Also SKINNY PUPPY decided to use it along with the clip from the film, altho that's blurred. Song was a live performance of ADDICTION, from the In Solvent Seas Tour.
Me too. I listen Civil War (best Guns N' Roses music IMO) for the 1st time when I was 10 years old, but I watched the movie for the first time when I was 27.
Saw this movie for the first time two weeks ago. Recognized the Civil War sample part IMMEDIATELY even though I'm not the biggest GnR fan. Finding stuff like this from older movies is just impossibly cool!
I've always said that this is one of the top three performances to never be nominated for an Oscar (the others IMO are John Cazale in The Godfather Part 2 and Larry Hagman in Fail-Safe). Martin OWNS the screen every time he steps foot in front of it. Plus, Conrad Hall should've won for this, too (I believe he WAS nominated); every frame is like a painting. One of the most beautifully photographed films of all-time!
One of the best lines in movies of all time! I have used Strother Martin's delivery as best as I could many times. Over the years I have become a little better but Martin delivers the line perfectly.
The line is repeated by Newman, prior to being shot, with the word 'a' before 'communicate'. 'Mis-quote', my arse! Ralph Raffio (author of '15 things you may not know about the Paul Newman classic') is a dick.
I couldn't agree more. I keep telling my children, "Figure this movie out, and you'll figure me out". It's been my favorite movie for as long as I can remember. This particular quote is overrated in my opinion though. If I had to pick a quote for this movie....."Just standing in the rain, talking to myself". I mean....Paul Newman gives this movie amazing acting, and Strother Martin gets the "iconic quote"? Seriously, just try to buy a Cool Hand Luke shirt without that damn quote.
FSB 75 i dont think its a overrated quote but its not the best in the movie, i do like the standing in the rain talking to myself better. i bet ive watched this movie a 100 times
I never forgot Strother Martin's famous line. I remember seeing this flick (first-run) in 1967. That was about the same time I checked out Hells Angels on Wheels (with Jack Nicholson).
You spend one night in the box you got you got yourself a set of chains. You spend two nights you got yours self two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set cos your gonna get your mind right, and I mean right!
I never taught that was a lady, but I taught that Strother Martin was a member of the band. Seriously. When my sister bought the CD (1996, I was 10 years old), she shows me the "book cover" before plays the music and I saw the Strother Martin name credited at the end of the Civil War lyrics - and Strother always reminds me a male name (I live in Brazil). Well, at 10yo I didn't speak English and I also didn't know that "What we've got here" is a quote from a movie - in Brazil nobody calls it "quote", we tell "famous phrases".
1:54 BEST exchange: Dog Boy: "You know ya' know you're gettin' so bad i could track you myself" Luke: "Yeah, well that oughta be easy for a genuine son of a bitch"
I had to produce a 1000 word essay on cool hand luke back in high school. Later in life I had the privilege to meet share a sam adams and briefly discuss not only this but a few of mr newmans films and racing career. Class act regular guy
all time classic movie. like the old cars, and chain gang. paul newman and george kennedy were great in the movie. " Nobody can eat 50 eggs". My Boy " LUKE".
I’m here after listening to MF DOOM!!! what we have here is a failure to communicate, if you’re gonna hate, you might at least get your rumors straight, about DOOM the great. A lot more confident, I came a long way since the days I used to rhyme for rent.
Reminds me of the cajun Deacon Candidate of the Roman Catholic Church, now class of 2025 not 2024, who has been more and more a part of my life for decades; He is covert malignant Narcissist. I am not rebellious.
A northern Florida post-WW2 chain gang looks more like California’s Central Valley, but the audience are made to think it’s the backward rural south in a time when Robert Elliot Burns’ testimony about the chain gangs made them make it easier.
If the warden had just cut Luke some slack in the beginning making him stay at the camp when his mother died to do some chores around the place under Carr, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. But he was a slimebag that wanted to exert dominance and control in a nice way. Putting Luke in the hotbox for 2-3 days for nothing he did wrong simply because his mother died was his way of saying “you keep going, but I’ll show you who’s boss!”
