1967 ORIGINAL 'COOL HAND LUKE' MOVIE SCRIPT GORDON CARROLL'S COPY PAUL NEWMAN

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[HOLLYWOOD, MOVIE PRODUCTION, FILM SCRIPTS]
"What we have here is a failure to communicate..."
"COOL HAND LUKE"
On offer here is an
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION SCRIPT FROM PRODUCER GORDON CARROLL FOR THE 1967 FILM 'COOL HAND LUKE' STARRING PAUL NEWMAN & GEORGE KENNEDY
.
The script is bound in custom blue leather with gilt embossing as shown. The 143 pp. is in excellent condition and has the usual different colored 'change' pages varying in color. Overall, about near fine.
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Cool Hand Luke
is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. Set in the early 1950s, it is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke.
Roger Ebert called Cool Hand Luke an anti-establishment film shot during emerging popular opposition to the Vietnam War. Filming took place within California's San Joaquin River Delta region; the set, imitating a prison farm in the Deep South, was based on photographs and measurements made by a crew the filmmakers sent to a Road Prison in Gainesville, Florida. The film uses Christian imagery.
Upon its release, Cool Hand Luke received favorable reviews and was a box-office success. It cemented Newman's status as one of the era's top actors, and was called the "touchstone of an era". Newman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Kennedy won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Pearce and Pierson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Lalo Schifrin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, considering it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film has a 100% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, and the prison warden's (Strother Martin) line in the film, which begins with "
What we've got here is failure to communicate
", was listed at number 11 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes list.
Provenance:
This lot comes from the collection of
Charles Gordon Carroll III
, an American film producer and book aficionado.
He is best known for being a principal producer for the '
Alien
' film franchise which began in 1979.
We acquired Carroll's library en bloc including several of his personal copies of movie scripts (
'Alien'
(1979)
,
'Cool Hand Luke'
(1967)
,
'Alien 3'
(1992)
,
'How to Murder Your Wife'
(1965)
, etc.) and a few
H.R. Giger
items he amassed over the years.
The H.R. Giger painting completed by Giger for Carroll in 1978 was sold by Abell Auctions in Southern California in March, 2022 for 0,000.
Carroll was also the heir to a large collection of
Limited Editions Club
books which his father acquired when he bought the LEC publishing operations from Ziff-Davis in 1970.
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