Director
Stuart Rosenberg
Leading Actors/Actresses
Paul Newman
Supporting Actors/Actresses
George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet
Genre
Crime, Drama
Language
English
Awards
Won Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - George Kennedy
Date of Release
1967
Producer
Gordon Carroll
Setting and Context
Florida 1950s
Narrator and Point of View
POV is that of Luke
Tone and Mood
Serious, Dramatic
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist is Luke. Antagonists are the Captain and all of his Bosses at the prison.
Major Conflict
Luke continues to run away after finding out his mother has died, and won't stop.
Climax
Luke is shot in the neck at a church after running away and is taken by the Captain to the prison hospital an hour away so that he will bleed out and die on the way there.
Foreshadowing
Luke in The Man With No Eyes' sunglasses foreshadows him being shot by the prison boss.
Understatement
It's understated that Dragline's character represents Judas Iscariot.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
n/a
Allusions
The film is an allusion to Jesus' death on the cross in order to set the world free from sin.
Paradox
It is a prison for heavy offenders yet Luke is sentenced with them for cutting off parking meter heads.
Parallelism
Luke's smiling in the face of authority taking him in is paralleled from the first scene into the last.
