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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
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.
Oct 5, 2020 · The Real Story Behind "Brubaker". The 1980 film Brubaker starred Robert Redford and gained national attention. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, brings us archives of the real story that inspired the film. A corrupt and brutal prison system existed before and after the movie about a ...
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.
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 2 min
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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.
W.D. Richter. Screenplay, Story. Stuart Rosenberg. Director. Arthur A. Ross. Story. Written by John Chard on June 28, 2014. The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
