Brubaker (1980)

Actors

• M. Emmet Walsh (actor)
• Joe Spinell (actor)
• Morgan Freeman (actor)
• Robert Redford (actor)
• J.C. Quinn (actor)
• Albert Salmi (actor)
• Yaphet Kotto (actor)
• Matt Clark (actor)
• Val Avery (actor)
• Wilford Brimley (actor)
• David Keith (actor)
• Murray Hamilton (actor)
• James Keane (actor)
• Jane Alexander (actress)
• Noble Willingham (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Taglines:

The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the warden!
One man against a cruel system.

Quotes:

Lillian Gray: You can't reform the system if you're not in it.

Henry Brubaker: I don't see playing politics with the truth.

Henry Brubaker: That's murder they're talking about in there. And if they condone it, how are you gonna turn around and tell these guys why they're locked up?

Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: What you gon' do about Abraham?::Henry Brubaker: I've got Purcell filling out forms in triplicate, and I'm going to get him released just as soon as I-::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Now why do you wanna go and do that?::Henry Brubaker: Do what?::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Look, why don't you just leave him be. I mean, all he knows is this place.::Henry Brubaker: You - You knew that he had been in here as long as he'd been in here.::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Just leave him alone. He's not- He's not botherin' nobody here.::Henry Brubaker: Hey... You can't hide in prison forever, Coombes.

Huey Rauch: Sanitation detail. You too, Bullen!::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Now, wait a minute. This man's hurt.::Huey Rauch: You just deal with colored - I'll take care of the white folks. 'Sides, I don't think Bullen's got much more'n refried shit for brains this morning.

Henry Brubaker: Hey. Can we talk?::Walter: Who the fuck are you? I want the man!::Henry Brubaker: I am. I am the man. I'm the new warden here. My name's Henry Brubaker.::Walter: [throws Bullen and advances on Brubaker] Man, don't be fucking with my head. 'New warden' my ass!::Henry Brubaker: It's true - I swear it.::Walter: Then how come you look like a scumbag?::Henry Brubaker: 'Cause I'm fooling those guys out there.

Henry Brubaker: Mess with me now; you're gonna regret it later.::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: We don't work this thing out fast, mister, you're not gonna be around later.::Henry Brubaker: Do you want ID?::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Listen, man. All I have to do is raise my right hand and that tower guard's gonna blow you out.::Henry Brubaker: ...or you can continue walking with me, like the smart escort I figure you to be.

Larry Lee Bullen: I got picked up for vagrancy - a misdemeanor. Next morning, the toilet's broke clean off the damn wall. There's six men in the cell, and they stick me with destruction of city property over $50. Felony number three.::Henry Brubaker: Habitual. That judge gives you life for a toilet.::Larry Lee Bullen: Yeah, or give me the toilet for life. Same difference. Anyhow; here I am shoveling shit for dead men.::Henry Brubaker: Instead, how'd you like to be a trustee, and run my motorpool?::Larry Lee Bullen: Mr. Brubaker, I've been studying you since you first come in. And it's come clear to me that you are one weird fucking individual. I ain't got you figgered out yet - whether you're a good thing or a bad one.::Henry Brubaker: Does that mean you'll run my motorpool?::Larry Lee Bullen: [whistles] Wear them khakis? Get me a guitar? Be the warden's new boy?::Henry Brubaker: No, you're smarter than that.::Larry Lee Bullen: The whole world's fucked up, Mr. Brubaker. Ain't no use.

Henry Brubaker: Tower number 3 - who'm I looking at? He's looking at me.::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Up there, you got Douglass Mizell.::Henry Brubaker: Who the hell is Doug Mizell?::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: He's a forger. Three times grand theft.::Henry Brubaker: I want a rundown on everybody that's got tower duty. I-::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: I do believe that's Purcell's job, sir.::Henry Brubaker: I want only murderers up there; one-time impulse killers.::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: Well, aren't you taking kind of a chance doing that? Aren't you? I mean, uh...::Henry Brubaker: No, it's the habituals you can't trust. Murderers - most of 'em - already have it out of their system. Guys like you, right?::Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: [laughs] There's nobody around here like me.

Zaranska: Let's just take a little bit off around the ears. [hands barber $2]::Barber: Costs five to get you no haircut now, Zaranska. Two only gets you a crew-cut.::Zaranska: Fuck, I could use this on a bed.::Barber: It'll all come off then. Maybe an ear with it.::Barber: [later] What's it be, my man?::Henry Brubaker: [hands barber $5] Leave the ears.