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Sep 21, 1980 · Thomas Murton, the real-life model for "Brubaker," the crusading warden played by Robert Redford, was forced out of the Arkansas prison system in 1968 after exposing the Cummins burial ground.
Brubaker accuses prison board head John Deach of defrauding the prison through insurance policies on nonexistent farm equipment (while leaving the prison buildings uninsured) before storming out of the meeting. The morning after the prison board meeting, Brubaker awakes and discovers Abraham's body suspended from the warden's residence flagpole.
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Jan 3, 2024 · The movie follows Henry Brubaker, a new warden who has been hired to modernize and reform Wakefield Prison. Brubaker pretends to be a prisoner and mixes with the general population until he discovers widespread corruption and reveals himself in disgust. Though faced with resistance from every direction, Brubaker goes on to uncover a prison ...
Jun 20, 1980 · Brubaker: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton. The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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- Crime, Drama
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1980-06-20
Nov 12, 1981 · He said since 1900, more than 200 people have been listed as escapees from the institution with no evidence of them having shown up anywhere else later. "There's still 200 (bodies) out there in the pasture," he claims. "It was common knowledge in penology across the United States that homicides did occur in Arkansas prisons."
- Dan Merriman
Brubaker. "Brubaker" is a grim and depressing drama about prison outrages - a movie that should, given its absolutely realistic vision, have kept us involved from beginning to end. That it doesn't is the result, I think, of a deliberate but unwise decision to focus on the issues involved in the story, instead of on the characters.
Brubaker discovers a cabin inhabited by Huey Rauch (Tim McIntire), a trusty, and his waitress girlfriend on the prison grounds, surrounded by storage sheds stocked with food stolen from the prison kitchens. After firing bureaucrat Willets (Ronald C. Frazier) for allowing the theft, Brubaker sets up an inmate council, headed by three trusties ...
