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Genres:
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Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Stuart Rosenberg
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Actors:
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Murray Hamilton,
Val Avery,
Albert Salmi,
Jane Alexander,
Jon Van Ness,
Tim McIntire,
Richard Ward,
Linda Haynes,
Robert Redford,
Yaphet Kotto,
David Keith,
Morgan Freeman,
Matt Clark,
M. Emmet Walsh,
Everett McGill
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Duration:
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131 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)92
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Plot Summary:
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Henry Brubaker is the new warden at Wakefield prison. He makes his entrance as a also gaolbird in order to put across a find's-regard-view of the right state of the institution. To his anxiety he finds all amenities of misapplication and corruption which, after disclosing his real agreement, he sets inaccurate to reprove.
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Tags:
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I'm getting ready to tell you something
The title of my review will be lost on some people but remember it when you hire out the movie... Superb acting by Redford and Hamilton and an early appearance by Freeman!
Screenplay based on a book by Thomas Murton (worth reading) and whilst some think the script is clumsy - I wouldn't agree.
At times the movie isn't pacy but we've gotten far to used to 'blockbuster consumerable pace' and this movie instead invests in characterisation - something that is often lost today. The movie clearly is all about the characters and the back drop of the prison just serves as the medium to develop the ethical and moral points that Rosenberg (director) wants to make.
The ending isn't Hollywood and for me that's great.
Super, super, super - think u...
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