Clarity—from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona

[shemthepenman]

... "what we have here is a problem to communicate"*
*From the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke"

"what we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach."

Damn it! This just goes to show I shouldn't quote things off the top of my addled brain.
I bow to the correctness of your quote of the Captain (Strother Martin) and am duly ashamed and impressed.

And, having looked it up on wiki, I see that Luke (Paul Newman) echoes it at the end: "What we got here is a failure to communicate."
So everybody, except me, is right. (I take my movies seriously.)

"Some men you just can't reach" reminds me of a line in Nicholas Ray's film "Johnny Guitar":

Quote from a NPR piece by Pat Dowell:

"Borgnine is best known and probably best loved for the smug ferocity of his great villains — the bully in the 1954 cult Western Johnny Guitar comes to mind. Bart knifes his bookish roommate in the back ('Old Tom' played by John Carradine) when he won't consider joining him in betraying their gang. And then he complains, "Some people just won't listen!"

You can find Pat's whole piece on Borgnine here.

To be honest, I have only seen Cool Hand Luke once. The only reason I know this quote by heart is because it appears at the beginning of the Guns N' Roses song Civil War and therefore the Use Your Illusions II album which at one time I listened to to an unhealthy amount of times.