Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A set of 4 door panels for Cool Hand Luke, ca. 1967
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June 19, 12:09 PM GMT
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COOL HAND LUKE. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1967.
A set of 4 US door panels, linen backed unframed: each measuring 60 x 20 in (152 x 51 cm).
From the collection of Adam Bridgewater, purchased London 1999.
Door panels were printed in very small quantities and only used in flagship cinemas. Very few sets of these are known to have survived.
The artwork used in the present set is unique to the door panels.
Cool Hand Luke was directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and stars Paul Newman and features George Kennedy, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Newman had the leading role as Luke, who was sentenced to two years in a Florida prison, and who refused to comply with the rules.
Cool Hand Luke contains two of cinema's most memorable moments—the first being the scene where Luke eats fifty hard boiled eggs in just one hour, and the second being the Captain's line delivery of the following line to Luke: "what we've got here is failure to communicate".