Excellent film rendition of the Thomas Merton story

A true story...and things still ain't changed much.

Junction City Prison Farm, Junction City, Ohio, USA

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I've got Purcell filling out forms in triplicate, and I'm going to get him released just as soon as I-

Look, why don't you just leave him be. I mean, all he knows is this place.

You - You knew that he had been in here as long as he'd been in here.

Just leave him alone. He's not- He's not botherin' nobody here.

Hey... You can't hide in prison forever, Coombes.

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Robert Redford

Yaphet Kotto

Morgan Freeman

W.D. Richter

Arthur A. Ross

Thomas O. Murton

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

Stuart Rosenberg

Brubaker

A true story...and things still ain&apos;t changed much.

I saw this movie with my wife, who wasn&apos;t thrilled that I brought this back from the video store. She&apos;s the type that pulls movies off of the &quot;new release&quot; shelf without fail. But as we got into this movie, she changed her mind.

Robert Redford plays Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who is recruited to reform brutal Wakefield Penitentiary, in Arkansas. The conditions are terrible, with men sleeping in puddles of mop water and being regularly beaten, tortured, and murdered. Brubaker gets a handle on the conditions there by sneaking into the jail disguised as an incoming criminal.

 When he finally begins his tenure as warden, he meets strong resistance from the community, which is used to the prison being the source of local income and slave labor. The scenes in which Brubaker has to deal with the morally corrupt prison board are powerful and captivating. A good view.

 Cinematography is questionable, and the editing TV movie-like. Acting is superb, and the local color interesting. I give the film a B-.

Things to watch for: white trash sister, Morgan Freeman&apos;s debut, rape scene.

Trailer

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I saw this movie with my wife, who wasn't thrilled that I brought this back from the video store. She's the type that pulls movies off of the "new release" shelf without fail. But as we got into this movie, she changed her mind.

Robert Redford plays Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who is recruited to reform brutal Wakefield Penitentiary, in Arkansas. The conditions are terrible, with men sleeping in puddles of mop water and being regularly beaten, tortured, and murdered. Brubaker gets a handle on the conditions there by sneaking into the jail disguised as an incoming criminal.

 When he finally begins his tenure as warden, he meets strong resistance from the community, which is used to the prison being the source of local income and slave labor. The scenes in which Brubaker has to deal with the morally corrupt prison board are powerful and captivating. A good view.

 Cinematography is questionable, and the editing TV movie-like. Acting is superb, and the local color interesting. I give the film a B-.

Things to watch for: white trash sister, Morgan Freeman's debut, rape scene.

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