• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1967-11-01
  • Runtime127 minutes
  • TaglineThe man... and the motion picture that simply do not conform.
  • Revenue16,217,773$
  • GenreDrama, Crime
  • Production
    CompaniesWarner Bros.-Seven Arts, Jalem Productions
  • Budget3,200,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Paul Newman

George Kennedy

Luke Askew

Morgan Woodward

Harry Dean Stanton

Dennis Hopper

Lou Antonio

Robert Drivas

Strother Martin

Jo Van Fleet

Clifton James

Marc Cavell

Richard Davalos

Robert Donner

J.D. Cannon

Joe Don Baker

James Gammon

Wayne Rogers

Ralph Waite

Chuck Hicks

Rance Howard

James Jeter

Buck Kartalian

Anthony Zerbe

Warren Finnerty

John McLiam

Charles Tyner

Joy Harmon