Cool Hand Luke

So far this film has been very good. It shows you the life of a road prison and how tough it can be. The everyday occurences that can happen throughout the prison Is shown. A caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow-prisoners. Underlying the hard-bitten surface is a slightly uncomfortable allegory which identifies Newman as a Christ figure.