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Brubaker. Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison ...
- June 20, 1980
- Ron Silverman
Penologist. Thomas O. Murton (March 15, 1928 – October 10, 1990) was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas. In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker .
- Thomas O. Murton, March 15, 1928
- University of California, Berkeley
- American
- Penologist
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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 ...
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.
Henry Brubaker is the new warden at Wakefield prison. He makes his entrance as a prisoner in order to get a convict's-eye-view of the real state of the institution. To his horror he finds all manner of abuse and corruption which, after disclosing his real identity, he sets out to correct. —Rob Hartill
Jul 31, 1980 · Robert Redford portrays Henry Brubaker, an unorthodox prison reform warden who is uncompromising in his ways of replacing brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm. BEDFORD’S acting is superb as he portrays a Wakefield State Penitentiary reform warden who poses as a prisoner to experience first-hand the ...
Jun 20, 1980 · This is a long, mostly dialogueless sequence in which Brubaker, identified for us only as a new inmate at Wakefield State Penitentiary, gets a first-hand look at the conditions in the prison.
