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Director Stuart Rosenberg has chosen such a Florida chain gang as a microcosm of society for his first feature-length film, Cool Hand Luke. Into it, he plunks a hero, Lucas Jackson, doing two years' hard labor for "maliciously destroying municipal property while under the influence ... Knocking the heads off parking meters...
...Rosenberg's camera records boredom (trucks rolling out in the dark and back home in the dusk), beauty (swatches of blue background sky with dusty greens and yellows splashed onto the screen in pleasing rhythms), and oppression (a slew of low-lying shots of guards' boots thumping on the ground...
...Rosenberg, who directed much of the TV series "The Defenders," shows us how his untamed man operates in some unlikely ideological battlegrounds: a Saturday afternoon boxing match, a poker game, and an egg-eating contest...
...Rosenberg's spectre of authority is highly effective. Strother Martin is perfect as the camp warden. He speaks in a slow, mad, Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...
...game Baker came down to the last 200 yards in sixth place, but his normal long stride had degenerated into a tired, painfully slow jog. First Navy's Jim Dare and then Columbia's Gary Rosenberg caught him in the drive for the wire...