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who played the warden in cool hand luke
Strother Martin is best known as the prison captain in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke
what is the famous line spoken by the captain in cool hand luke
The quotation used by the prison warden in Cool Hand Luke begins with, what we've got here is failure to communicate
who wrote the novel cool hand luke
Donn Pearce, a merchant seaman turned counterfeiter and safe cracker, wrote the novel Cool Hand Luke, about his experiences working on a chain gang while serving in a Florida prison.

Question: how much did the author make for writing the screenplay
Self-contained rewrite: how much did donn pearce make for writing the screenplay for cool hand luke