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Brubaker

Year:

1980

Duration:

132 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1980-06-20

Filming Locations: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $2,748,079 (USA) (22 June 1980)

Gross: $2,748,079 (USA) (22 June 1980)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jane Alexander

Brubaker

Robert Redford

Henry Brubaker

Yaphet Kotto

Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

Murray Hamilton

John Deach

David Keith

Larry Lee Bullen

Morgan Freeman

Walter

Matt Clark

Roy Purcell

Tim McIntire

Huey Rauch

Richard Ward

Abraham Cook

Jon Van Ness

Zaranska

M. Emmet Walsh

C.P. Woodward

Albert Salmi

Rory Poke

Linda Haynes

Carol

Everett McGill

Eddie Caldwell

Val Avery

Wendel

Ron Frazier

Burl Willets

David Harris

Duane Spivey

Joe Spinell

Floyd Birdwell

James Keane

Pinky

Konrad Sheehan

Glenn Elwood

Roy Poole

Dr. Gregory

Nathan George

Leon Edwards

Don Blakely

Jerome Boyd

Lee Richardson

Warden Renfro

John McMartin

Senator Charles Hite

Alex Brown

Fenway Park

John Chappell

Captain Cleaves

Brent Jennings

Mr. Clarence

Harry Groener

Dr. Campbell

William Newman

Dunfield

Noble Willingham

Dr. Fenster

Wilford Brimley

Rogers

Jane Cecil

Bea Williams

Ebbe Roe Smith

Pavitch

Young Hwa Han

Leonard Ng

Vic Polizos

Billy Baylock

Jack O'Leary

Floor Walker

James Dukas

Oafish Rankman

J.C. Quinn

Barber

Jerry Mayer

Barber

Ivy Featherstone

Peterson

Kent Broadhurst

Whitley

Hazen Gifford

Partridge

Elane Rower Richardson

Mrs. Renfro

John R. Glover

Ackroyd

Bill McNulty

Richards

Linda Milligan

Female Reporter

Rob Garrison

Pretty Boy

James E. Fraunfelter Jr.

Barracks Trusty

Ritch Brinkley

Gate Guard Ruben

David E. Williams

Rank Server

E.J. Pearcy

Transfer Guard

J.K. Mahle

Bus Driver

Vivian P. Bass

Waitress

Greg Martin

Trusty

Philip E. Combs

Young Reporter

Richard L. Denny

State Trooper

Michael Holiday

Gate Trusty

Nick Baldasare

Prisoner with Shovel

Allison Caine

(uncredited) (voice)

Gary Jones

Investigative Reporter

Monty Jordan

Inmate Wrangler

Rob Liotti

Prisoner (uncredited)

Hank Salas

Inmate in Chow Line

Did you know?

Trivia

This film's shooting schedule went over-time and consequently actor Robert Redford had to start work on his directorial debut Ordinary People (1980) with very little time at all between projects.

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The warden impersonating a prisoner story element was fictionalized and was not derived from Thomas O. Murton's experiences. It has been suggested though that this plot device was inspired by Sing Sing Prison Warden Thomas Mott Osborne who in 1913 under an assumed name had had himself committed to New York State's Auburn State Penitentiary.

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This film was made and released about eleven years after its source book "Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal" by Thomas O. Murton and Joe Hyams was first published in 1969. The film is a fictionalized version of this book and was also based on Murton's true life prison system experiences. The film was made and released about twelve to thirteen years after the events of the Arkansas Prison Scandal had taken place around 1967-1968.

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Goofs

In a restaurant scene, a Conn's Potato Chip sales display can be seen. Conn's are only made and sold in Ohio, not Arkansas.

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At the end, when the car is leaving the prison, the grass around is violently shaking revealing the helicopter carrying the camera.

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After leaving the prison board meeting, while speaking with Lillian Gray in the Hilton Inn parking lot, Brubaker claims to have locked his keys in the car. Lillian Gray then opens an unlocked passenger-side door (humiliating Brubaker). At the conclusion of a previous scene, when Brubaker is leaving for the prison board meeting, an angry Dickie Coombes slammed his hand down on the passenger side door, locking it (the camera is focused on this action).

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Quotes

Henry Brubaker: Tower number 3 - who'm I looking at? He's looking at me.

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Henry Brubaker: What happened? What happened to your eye?

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Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: What you gon' do about Abraham?

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