<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 , abridged , by Paul Newman ( as Luke , a stubborn prisoner ) . </P>
who said what we got here is failure to communicate
Strother Martin ( as the Captain , a prison warden )