Cool Hand Luke (
1967) | IMDb:
8.1
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.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
George Kennedy
,
Luke Askew
,
Morgan Woodward
,
Harry Dean Stanton
,
Dennis Hopper
How the West Was Won (
1962) | IMDb:
7
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Raintree County (
1957) | IMDb:
6.3
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Eva Marie Saint
,
Nigel Patrick
,
Lee Marvin
,
Rod Taylor