Card, Lobby - "Brubaker"
Object number2009.028.01-08
Date1980
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionEight original color photographic lobby cards from the movie "Brubaker." The movie stars Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander, and Yaphet Kotto. In the film, Redford plays a prison warden who goes undercover as a prisoner in an attempt to reform the prison. Released in 1980, Brubaker is loosely based on the 1969 nonfiction book "Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal" by Joe Hyams and Thomas O. Murton. Murton was hired as a prison warden in the late 1960s to modernize two prison farms in Arkansas: the Tucker State Prison Farm (Tucker, Jefferson County) and the Cummins State Prison Farm (Grady, Lincoln County). The controversial book and movie brought national attention to issues such as prisoner abuse, inhumane conditions in prisons, and the need for modernization. The eight photographs are described below:
2009.028.01- Scene from the movie: close up of Robert Redford as Warden Henry Brubaker disguised as a prison inmate;
2009.028.02- Scene from the movie: photograph of four inmates, Robert Redford as a prisoner in the center;
2009.028.03- Scene from the movie: inmates riding a mule-drawn wagon, some inmates walking, and a trustee with a rifle riding a horse;
2009.028.04- Scene from the movie: a line of prisoners, including Redford, working on the hoe squad;
2009.028.05- Scene from the movie: inmates riding horses in a prison rodeo scene;
2009.028.06- Scene from the movie: close up of two inmates fighting, with one sitting on top of the other while other prisoners sit and watch;
2009.028.07-Scene from the movie: woman (Jane Alexander) and a man talking;
2009.28.08-Scene from the movie: Redford speaking with a bullhorn from the back of a pickup truck in front of the prison.
Status
Not on view
1980
1913-1964
20th Century