Breakout
Film Comment Selects 2016
February 17 - 24, 2016
This underrated thriller ranks among the highlights of Charles Bronson’s ’70s superstardom phase. Bronson plays a pilot hired to rescue a tycoon’s son (Robert Duvall) from a Mexican prison, aided by the imprisoned man’s wife (Jill Ireland) and an assortment of cohorts played by Randy Quaid, Sheree North, and Alan Vint. Featuring John Huston as Mr. Big.
An underrated thriller from journeyman director Tom Gries, Breakout ranks among the highlights of Charles Bronson’s ’70s superstardom phase. Bronson plays pilot Nick Colton, bankrolled by a tycoon (John Huston) to rescue his son Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) who’s been imprisoned in Mexico on trumped-up charges. Aided by Wagner’s wife Ann (Jill Ireland) and an assortment of cohorts (Randy Quaid, Sheree North, Alan Vint), Colton soon discovers that it’s a tough proposition in part due to a phony escape-route scheme run by corrupt warders in which escapees wind up dead. Featuring top-notch action sequences and superior technical credits (cinematography by Lucien Ballard, music by Jerry Goldsmith).
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