Cool Hand Luke (1967) movie script by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson. Based on the novel by Donn Pearce. ANGLE BY WINDOW as Luke steps out of pitch black into the harsh light in full view, calm, slight smile, having chosen his moment. His voice is loud, clear, mocking: LUKE WHAT WE GOT HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE... A SHOT! It catches Luke in the throat and throws him back, but he stays in the light, still smiling. DRAGLINE Luke! EXT. CHURCHYARD (NIGHT) ON guards and police, FEATURING Godfrey, who holds his smoking rifle. There are confused SHOUTS and movements by the sheriffs, but the Captain and the prison guards only look toward Godfrey, then turn away, stoic. INT. CHURCH as Luke falls to one knee, trying to hold himself up. Dragline is by his side, helps him up and to the door. EXT. CHURCHYARD (NIGHT) where Bosses Kean and Paul move in to handcuff Luke. Dragline, seeing Godfrey, bellows out an INCOHERENT ROAR and charges past the surprised guards to knock Godfrey to the ground, tear his glasses from him. Confused, bewildered, Godfrey gropes for the glasses as the prison guards beat Dragline into submission. ANGLE ON CHURCH (PRE-DAWN) (NIGHT) as Luke, handcuffed behind his back, is being led toward the Captain's car by Bosses Paul and Kean. He is half-paralyzed, blood pouring from him. The Captain has turned his back on Godfrey, talking to the Sheriff. SHERIFF You follow me and I'll radio the emergency clinic to open up... CAPTAIN I'm takin' him to the prison hospital. SHERIFF But that's an hour away. He ain't gonna last twenty minutes. CAPTAIN Git outa the way. He's ours. MOVING SHOT LUKE as he is brought past Dragline, who is being held by several guards. Tears stream down Dragline's cheeks. Luke looks at him, still smiling as he is pushed into the Captain's car. LUKE INT. THE CAR as it begins to move out. In the b.g. across the road we SEE the Negro villagers watching, silently. The window of the car is up and the reflections on the glass make Luke already dim, a little distant. MOVING SHOT THE CAR (DAWN) as it moves down the road, over the trestle. It is the mystic hour of dawn, the sun's rays just diffusing as we watch the car until it disappears over the rise in the road. http://youtu.be/SwzG_QRyosQ