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- One of the more interesting facts about Junction City Prison was the 1978 filming of the 1980 movie Brubaker on the property.
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Filming locations. Junction City Prison Farm, Junction City, Ohio, USA. Columbus, Ohio, USA. Lancaster, Ohio, USA. Fairfield County Fairgrounds - 157 E. Fair Avenue, Lancaster, Ohio, USA. New Lexington, Ohio, USA.
One of the more interesting facts about Junction City Prison was the 1978 filming of the 1980 movie Brubaker on the property. The movie starred Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, David Keith and Morgan Freeman. The film was about a warden who took a failing, corrupt prison and turned it around by entering the system secretly as a prisoner.
Most exteriors were filmed at the then-recently closed Junction City Prison in Junction City, southeast of Columbus in central Ohio. Additional locations included Bremen, New Lexington, and the Fairfield County Fairgrounds in Lancaster. The opening scenes of the prison bus departure show the skyline and a view up South Front Street in Columbus.
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.
- (19K)
- Crime, Drama
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1980-06-20
Brubaker. Based on the real-life efforts of former prison administrator Thomas O. Murton to reform Tucker and Cummins Prison Farms in Arkansas in 1967-68. The film was based on the 1969 book, "Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal" by Murton and Joe Hyams.
The film was filmed at the Junction City Jail in Junction City, Perry County, Ohio. Reception. The film was released on June 20, 1980 in the United States and on January 23, 1981 in Spain.
