Breakout is a 1975 action film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North and Randy Quaid. Harris Wagner frames Jay Wagner . In order to keep him silent, Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison. Jay's wife Ann is unhappy at this turn of events and hires a pilot in Brownsville, Texas, Nick Colton , to fly into the prison and rescue her husband. The film was inspired by an actual event. A pilot, Vasilios Basil Choulos, had flown a helicopter into a Mexican prison and broke a prisoner out. That prisoner had been framed and had served 28 years in prison for... a crime he did not commit.
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| Release date: | 1975 |
| Directed by: | Tom Gries |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Lucien Ballard |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |