Movie
1980
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 Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison…
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Americans like to describe their country as Land of the Free, but one of four of all incarcerated people in the world is incarcerated in United States. This state of affairs played its part in helping Hollywood to develop prison drama genre, with 1967 *Cool Hand Luke* being one of its classics. Thirteen years later its director Stuart Rosenberg returned to those themes with his film *Brubaker*. The plot begins with…More
