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Cool Hand Luke
Paul Newman.
Cool Hand Luke.
Plastic Jesus by Ed Rush and George Cromarty
The antagonist of the 1967 film, Cool Hand Luke, is the character known simply as the Captain, played by Strother Martin. He is the man who is constantly pushing around the inmates and who enforces the prison's rules. He is the antagonist or "bad guy" opposite of the protagonist, Luke, played by Paul Newman.