Cool Hand Luke (1967) - The Captain's speech What we've got here is failure to communicate

Cool Hand Luke (1967) - The Captain's speech “ What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. . . well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.“ Used in the song “Civil War“ By Guns and Roses. Paul Newman as Lucas “Cool Hand Luke“ Jackson Strother Martin as Captain 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: Captain: You gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listening to them clinking, 'cause they gonna remind you what I been saying for your own good. Luke: I wish you'd stop being so good to me, Cap