Brubaker is a 1980 American
prison drama film directed by
Stuart Rosenberg. It stars
Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by
W.D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book,
Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by
Tom Murton and
Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal.