Bullitt / Cool Hand Luke / Get Carter (Essential Kings of Cool)

Cool Hand Luke: His crime; nonconformity. His sentence; the chain gang. Paul Newman plays one of his best loved roles as Cool Hand Luke, the loner who won\'t - or can\'t - conform to the arbitrary rules of his captivity. Luke is detached and indifferent, but he can\'t beat the system he scoffs at.
Bullitt: His new assignment seems routine: protecting a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out, the witness lies dying and the cool, no-nonsense Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) won\'t rest until the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed.
Get Carter:When Jack Carter comes to Newcastle to inquire about his brother\'s mysterious death, racketeers think they can threaten him, rough him up, shoo him away like a fly. Which shows they don\'t know jack about Carter. Double Academy Award winner Michael Caine plays the relentless title character in this gritty neo-noir (Sylvester Stallone stars in a 2000 remake). Caine\'s Carter is a sharp portrait of cold-blooded precision as he connects the dots of a cover-up that leads to a pornography ring (John Osbourne, whose Look Back in Anger launched Britain\'s \"Angry Young Men\" era, plays the flesh peddler\'s ringleader). Revenge is sweet for Carter. But in the hard world of latter-day film noir, sweet is sure to turn suddenly, violently sour.