Cool Hand Luke (1967) – Filming Locations
Drama / Crime · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · Starring Paul Newman
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.
Where was Cool Hand Luke filmed?
- Stockton, California, United States, Stockton – Prison exterior and yard scenes where Luke is incarcerated and works on the chain gang. The actual maximum-security Folsom prison was used for authentic exterior prison scenes, lending documentary realism to the penal system's brutality
- Stockton, California, United States, Stockton – Various road gang work scenes and exterior locations around the prison grounds. The Stockton area provided landscape and locations for chain gang labor sequences and the surrounding prison environment
- California, United States, Northern California – Road gang work scenes and travel sequences throughout the film. Northern California locations were used extensively for chain gang work sequences and road scenes that bookend the narrative