Brubaker (1980)
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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What critics compared Brubaker to
The indolent script labors all over the place in the way it owes its nod to countless other flicks ranging from Redford's own "Brubaker" to "Stalag 17".
In Brubaker, Robert Redford played an idealistic warden who took on a corrupt prison system.
The original story, by David Scarpa (with the screenplay co written with veteran scribe Graham Yost), starts off feeling a lot like an earlier Robert Redford film, "Brubaker."
Redford manages to shake off flashbacks to "Brubaker" by creating a tarnished hero.
The character of Buckaroo started as a sprig of an idea in the mind of W.D. Richter, who found a screenwriting hot hand in the late 1970s with reinventions of “Dracula” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” as well as the Robert Redford prison drama “Brubaker.”