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Dec 16, 2023 · Discover 34 fascinating facts about the critically acclaimed movie Brubaker, starring Robert Redford and based on true events. Learn about the behind-the-scenes production and the impact this gripping prison drama had on American cinema.
Brubaker leaves and Gray follows him, imploring him to compromise, but he refuses to compromise over murder. Brubaker exits the prison as the new warden, hardline disciplinarian Rory Poke, addresses the prisoners.
What seems a little unlikely in these opening scenes is that Redford, as a new prisoner, would emerge unscathed: He observes, he listens and he’s mostly left alone by the other prisoners, even though his fellow new recruits are being raped, beaten and forced into the prison’s system of corruption.
Brubaker is based on the real-life experiences of Tom Murton, who worked as a warden in a primitive Arkansas prison in 1968, improving conditions and irritating the corrupt prison officials until his discovery of three bodies buried on prison property led to his dismissal.
Thomas O. Murton (March 15, 1928 – October 10, 1990) was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas. In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker.
After he left acting, Brubaker worked for Forest Lawn Cemetery as a director in the training department. When he retired from that job, he moved to Lake Elsinore, California. [1]
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Oct 5, 2020 · 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.
