Brubaker

Name: Brubaker
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1980-06-20
Duration: 2 h 11 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

One man against a cruel system.

Brubaker (1980)

Timing: 2:11 (131 min)

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Budget

$9 000 000

Box office

$37 121 708

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Director

Stuart Rosenberg

Actors

Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Richard Ward, Jon Van Ness
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Producer

Ron Silverman, Ted Mann

Camera operator

Bruno Nuytten

Composer

Lalo Schifrin

Artist

Audition

Terry Liebling

Editing

Robert Brown
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Short description

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

What's left behind the scenes

Thomas O. Merton served as a technical consultant during the making of the film.
The film is based on the true story of Thomas Merton, who was appointed in 1967 to reform the Arkansas state penitentiary system. In the spring of 1968, after making numerous scandalous revelations, he was fired under pressure from the new governor of the state and returned to academic work. In 1969, he co-authored a book about these events with Joe Hyams, titled “Accomplices to the Crime.”
Thomas O. Merton participated as a technical consultant during the making of the film.
Fifteen-year-old Nicolas Cage appears in the film as an extra. This was his first work in cinema.
Nicolas Cage, who was fifteen at the time, appears in the film as an extra. This was his first movie role.
The plot element of a 'prison warden posing as an inmate' was fictional and was not based on the experiences of screenwriter Thomas O. Murton. According to one hypothesis, this plot device was inspired by the story of Thomas Mott Osborne, the warden of Sing Sing prison in New York, who in 1913 voluntarily became an inmate at another prison in the same state.
The film was based on the true story of Thomas O. Merton, who was appointed in 1967 to reform the Arkansas state penal system. In the spring of 1968, after numerous scandalous exposures he made, he was fired under pressure from the new governor of the state, after which he returned to academic work.
The film was based on the true story of Thomas O. Merton, who was appointed in 1967 to reform the Arkansas state prison system. In the spring of 1968, following numerous scandalous revelations he made, he was dismissed under pressure from the state's new governor, after which he returned to academic work.
Thomas Merton participated in the film's creation as a technical consultant.
The majority of the filming took place at Junction City Prison, located near the town of Junction City, Ohio. The prison was officially closed by the state administration in 1977.
Over 6,500 people applied to be extras, although the film showed up to 1,000 prisoners at once. Several retired guards from various prisons were involved in the movie, including from the active prison in Kansas where filming took place. In his pursuit of authenticity and realism, Stuart Rosenberg wanted to cast as many former convicts as possible.