Stuart Rosenberg, 1967 (suom. "Lannistumaton Luke")
This film manages to touch with its protagonist that has difficulties living with the rules of the society. He's not your average shoplifter, though, but displays strong character, albeit gets himself imprisoned for no real reason on a drunken night apparently just for the sake of lack of purpose. It is mentioned that he had served in the war, so his tragedy portrays the difficulties a lot of Vietnam veterans experienced after returning from the highly unpopular war into the middle of hatred from their fellow men (the same theme underlies John Rambo's story in "First Blood" albeit that film didn't really get famous only for it's sympathetic anti-war message). Funny thing is, I learned after the film that the main supporting character (played by Ed from The Naked Gun), who kept bothering me throughout the film for his questionable acting, actually won a supporting actor Oscar from this film. And Paul Newman with his wonderful rendition of "Plastic Jesus" got only nominated.
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