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Cool Hand Luke. 1967. Paul Newman plays Lucas "Luke" ex soldier now a convict sentenced to two years hard labour and becomes a anti-hero among the prisoners. George Kennedy who got a oscar for his performance and rightly so, portrays the main guy every prisoner follows and ends up forming a friendship with Luke after a beat down and a card game. The film does come with it's moments of hardship with the wardens trying to break every man yet Luke seems to be the one they can't break even after some escapes and gets caught. There is one good comical moment with the prisoners out working and a blondie decides to tease them all with a wet sponge and a car that you know the guys are going to get hot under the collar a bit too much. Certainly a masterpiece for acting and plenty of familiar faces in one movie. image.jpg
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I've always liked Trauma as well. I mean, come on it's fackin' Piper Laurie on a mental one, and i'm sure the "Nicolas" thing as her head rolls off is reminiscent of Pit and the Pendulum, another Poe reference. Anyway Dracula, The Card Player, Giallo and Phantom (which for me is Dario's ultimate shitfest) are all inferior to this one. Get a grip.
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Oh and Laurie herself said in 1997, Trauma was terrible, so much so that she never bothered to watch it. |
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I always just really liked her due to Carrie being a favourite since a kid, I guess there's something about unhinged older women in films that i dig. Billie Whitelaw in The Omen and Bette Davis in Whatever happened to Baby Jane being two other prime examples. Laurie is also in The Faculty and features in Ruby another goofy 70's horror film that used to turn up on late night TV a lot, it's not a great film but it is quite warped and she's good in it, i've always liked it.
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