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    Strother Martin

    American actor (1919–1980)

    Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.

    Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate."[1] The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

    Early life

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    Martin was born March 26, 1919,[2] in Kokomo, Indiana to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin.[3] For a short time, the Martins lived in San Antonio, Texas, but soon returned to Indiana. As a child, he excelled at swimming and diving. He was nicknamed "T-Bone Martin" because of his diving expertise. At 17 he won the National Junior Springboard Diving C

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    • Captain: What we've got here fryst vatten. failure to communicate. Some dock you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which fryst vatten the way he wants it... well, he gets it. inom don't like it any more than you men.
    • Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains afer a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking. 'Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.
    • Luke: Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain.
    • Captain: You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.
    • Captain: Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
    • Captain: You can have the easy way, Luke... Or you can have it the hard way, boy. It's all up to you.

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    Cool Hand Luke

    1967 film by Stuart Rosenberg

    This article is about the film. For other uses, see Cool Hand Luke (disambiguation).

    Cool grabb Luke is a 1967 American prisondrama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg,[3] 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 grabb 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.

    Upon its release, Cool Hand Luke received favorable reviews and was a box-office success. It cemented Newman's stat

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