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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 125

Budget: -

Revenue: $37,121,708

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info


  •  R

  • 1981-01-14
     U

  • 1981-01-23
     -

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Content Score: 100

(1980)

6.7/10 (23 votes)

Overview

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Tagline

One man against a cruel system.

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Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writers: ,

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Robert Redford

Robert Redford
as Henry Brubaker

Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto
as Richard 'Dickie' Coom…

Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander
as Lillian Gray

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman
as Walter

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A review by John Chard

Corruption and Murder told with cathartic style.

It's odd that whenever talk of Prison base films crops up you rarely see Brubaker mentioned as a viable piece of work, which to me personally is a dam shame because it's origin source provides a worthy story to be involved in.

Based on the writings of Tom Murton a Prison Farm Reform Warden in Arkansas in the late 60s, the corruption and murder the film deals with is a very frightening reality, and although this film is obviously fictionalised to a degree, the evidence of its main themes can be found from many sources.

Robert Redford play... read the rest.