On this day in movie history – Brubaker (1980 movie & books):

Brubaker

directed by Stuart Rosenberg,

written by W. D. Richter,

story by W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross,

released in the United States on June 20, 1980.

Based on the book Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by 

Tom Murton and Joe Hyams.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Richard Ward, Jon Van Ness, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery, Ron Frazier, David Harris, Joe Spinell, James Keane, Konrad Sheehan, Roy Poole, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Lee Richardson, John McMartin, Alex Brown, John Chappell, Brent Jennings, Harry Groener, William Newman, Noble Willingham, Wilford Brimley, Jane Cecil, Ebbe Roe Smith, Young Hwa Han, Vic Polizos, Jack O’Leary, James Dukas, J.C. Quinn, Jerry Mayer, Ivy Featherstone, Kent Broadhurst, Hazen Gifford, Elane Rower Richardson, John R. Glover, Bill McNulty, Linda Milligan, Rob Garrison, James E. Fraunfelter Jr., Ritch Brinkley, David E. Williams, E.J. Pearcy, J.K. Mahle, Vivian P. Bass, Greg Martin, Philip Bartlett, Richard L. Denny, Michael Holiday, Nick Baldasare, Gary Jones, Monty Jordan, Rob Liotti, Hank Salas, Dennis Thompson. #Historical

Recommended reading:

Accomplices to the Crime:
The Arkansas Prison Scandal

by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams.

ASIN: B001IHUCFW
Publishd by Grove Press.
Published 1969.

Brubaker

by William Harrison.

Novelization based on the movie.
Published by New English Library.
Published 1980.

ISBN-10: 0450049841
ISBN-13: 9780450049842

Description:

The new warden poses as a prisoner to discover what conditions are really like at Wakefield prison, and then battles the town, the state, and even the prisoners to implement reforms.