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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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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.
- June 20, 1980
- Ron Silverman
Filming locations. Junction City Prison Farm, Junction City, Ohio, USA. Helpful • 9 0. Columbus, Ohio, USA. Helpful • 5 0. Lancaster, Ohio, USA. Helpful • 5 0. Fairfield County Fairgrounds - 157 E. Fair Avenue, Lancaster, Ohio, USA. Helpful • 4 0. New Lexington, Ohio, USA. Helpful • 3 0. Filming dates. Nov 1, 1978. Apr 9, 1979. Production dates.
Jun 20, 1980 · The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director. Stuart Rosenberg. Writers. W.D. Richter. Arthur A. Ross. Thomas O. Murton. Stars. Robert Redford. Yaphet Kotto. Morgan Freeman. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.79. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist.
- Stuart Rosenberg
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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. The movie starred Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, David Keith and Morgan Freeman.
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 ...
