Sad day:
Television and film director Stuart Rosenberg, whose best-known movies include the prison drama “Cool Hand Luke” and hit chiller “The Amityville Horror,” has died of a heart attack at age 79, his family said on Monday.
Rosenberg, whose last directorial credit was for the 1991 contemporary western “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” died on Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills, his wife Margot told Reuters.
The Brooklyn-born filmmaker spent a decade working on various TV series before making his big-studio debut as director of the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman as a rebellious inmate of a prison camp at odds with the sadistic “captain,” played by Strother Martin.
I first saw Cool Hand Luke on VHS a LONG time ago when I was a young kid. Even though I was young, even I could tell I was looking at a fricking wicked movie. It’s one of those films that just everyone should see. It’s a masterpiece, and has some of the best lines in film history in it.
Stuart directed other films of coarse, but I’ll always remember him for Cool Hand Luke. Like I said at the opening of this post…. sad day.
