BRUBAKER

'''Brubaker''' is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress. Robert Redford plays the eponymous lead role of Warden Henry Brubaker.
The film stars Yaphet Kotto, Tim McIntire, David Keith, Everett McGill, and Jane Alexander, with a fairly early appearance of Morgan Freeman.^[1]

Contents

Plot

Background

Cast

Awards

See also

Footnotes

Plot

In the film, the Brubaker character finds rampant abuse and corruption during the short period he impersonates an inmate. Examples include a prison doctor that charges inmates for care, torture of inmates, procurement fraud (such as purchase of substandard food contaminated with weevils and worms), fradulent insurance, and many more examples.
When the disguise comes off, he does what he must to make things right, and inflames the corrupt officials who have profited from their graft for decades.

Background

The film is a fact-based biopic about a prison warden who starts his job by disguising himself as one of his own prison inmates to find out what the prison is really like. It is based on a 1969 book by Tom Murton, a warden at the Cummins Prison in Arkansas, and co-author Joe Hyams, ''Accomplices To The Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal''.
Murton also served as technical advisor during filming.
Filmed in New Lexington, Ohio & The Junction City Prison Farm in Junction City, Ohio.

Cast

★ Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker

★ Yaphet Kotto as Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

★ Jane Alexander as Lillian Gray


★ Murray Hamilton as John Deach

★ David Keith as Larry Lee Bullen

★ Morgan Freeman as Walter

★ Matt Clark as Roy Purcell

★ Tim McIntire as Huey Rauch

★ Richard Ward as Abraham Cook

★ Jon Van Ness as Zaranska

★ M. Emmet Walsh as C.P. Woodward

★ Albert Salmi as Rory Poke

★ Linda Haynes as Carol

★ Everett McGill as Eddie Caldwell

★ Val Avery as Wendel

Awards

'Wins'

★ Motion Picture Sound Editors: Golden Reel Award. Best Sound Editing.
'Nominations'

★ Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen; W.D. Richter (screenplay/story) and Arthur A. Ross (story).

See also

★ Arkansas Prison scandal

Footnotes

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