But when the Captain (Strother Martin), the prison camp warden in Cool Hand Luke, tosses it at you, it’s not trying to put a comically sophisticated spin on a chaotic situation. In fact, anything but ...

No failure to communicate here – Cool Hand Luke is one of the sharpest prison dramas ever, although it’s graced with some very humorous portions as well. It can also be seen as a quintessentially ...

This piece is part of an On Leadership round table on rethinking university governance, in the wake of the U-Va. and Penn State crises. The recent crisis at the University of Virginia brings to mind ...

Even after half a century, Strother Martin’s famous quote from “Cool Hand Luke” still applies to a surprising number of circumstances: “What we’ve got here,” he drawled as the cruel warden of a ...

In the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke," the "Captain" says to Luke (Paul Newman) "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." The same could be said of the Trump administration and Republicans in ...

This 11th-most-famous American Film Institute line was shouted to “Cool Hand Luke” (Paul Newman) and his chain gang in the field by “The Captain,” the prison warden, played by actor Strother Martin.

In the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” the “Captain” says to Luke (Paul Newman) “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The same could be said of the Trump administration and Republicans in ...

In the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” the “Captain” says to Luke (Paul Newman): “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” The generational divide means that younger people have not experienced ...

In the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke," the "Captain" says to Luke (Paul Newman), "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." The same could be said of the Trump administration and Republicans in ...