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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. The film was about a warden who took a failing, corrupt prison and turned it around by entering the system secretly as a prisoner. Brubaker ...
Create New. Brubaker is a 1980 American drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, and Tim McIntire. It tells the story of Henry Brubaker (Redford), an official sent to take over a notorious Arkansas prison, his efforts to reform the prison, and the resistance he ...
Review by Christopher McQuarrie 7. “I’m gettin’ ready to tell you something.”. This prison film based loosely on a true story, directed by Cool Hand Luke’s Stuart Rosenberg and written by Bucakroo Bonzai’s W.D. Richter, is in an oddly unique artifact. Released in 1980, but very much a stylistic holdout of the early 70s, it was a ...
Jan 3, 2024 · The film was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It starred Robert Redford as Brubaker, Yaphet Kotto as Dickie Coombes, a trusty (a prisoner serving a life sentence who has earned a certain amount of authority by being trustworthy), and Morgan Freeman as Walter, a death-row inmate whom Brubaker tries to help.
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.
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 ...
