1967/11/01 (US) | Drama, Crime
The man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Stuart Rosenberg
Director
Frank Pierson
Screenplay
Donn Pearce
Screenplay
Paul Newman
Luke Jackson
George Kennedy
Dragline
Luke Askew
Boss Paul
Morgan Woodward
Boss Godfrey
Harry Dean Stanton
Tramp
Dennis Hopper
Babalugats
Lou Antonio
Koko
$ 3,200,000
$ 16,217,773
Released
Donn Pearce
Novel
Gordon Carroll
Producer
Carter DeHaven Jr.
Producer
Lalo Schifrin
Original Music Composer
Conrad L. Hall
Director of Photography
Sam O'Steen
Editor