What we've got here is failure to communicate
The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later, abridged, by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner). The context of the first delivery of the line is: The Captain's line is often misquoted as "What we have here is a failure to communicate". The phrase ranks at No. 11 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.
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What we've got here is failure to communicate
The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later, abridged, by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner). The context of the first delivery of the line is: The Captain's line is often misquoted as "What we have here is a failure to communicate". The phrase ranks at No. 11 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.
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