<Tr> <Th> First used in </Th> <Td> Cool Hand Luke </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Voted No. 11 in AFI's 100 Movie Quotes poll </Td> </Tr> <P> 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, paraphrased by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner). </P> <P> The context of the first delivery of the line is: </P>

Who said what we have here is failure to communicate