JasparLamarCrabb Review of Breakout

Breakout (1975)

Not particularly action packed for a mid-70s Bronson film...

[4/10 · 28 December 2013]

Not as action packed as one would have hoped for. Charles Bronson is a pilot hired by Jill Ireland to break husband Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. It proves to be quite a bit more difficult as Duvall's own uncle (John Huston) aims to keep him in the south of the border hellhole. There's plenty of humor (Bronson laughs!) and a few thrills courtesy a very uncooperative helicopter but not much else to recommend. The oddball supporting cast includes Alan Vint, Randy Quaid, Alejandro Rey and the incomparable Sheree North as a good time girl. It's never really clear why Duvall is framed by his uncle and the film has no real ending; it just stops. Directed with little fanfare by Tom Gries and written by Marc Norman (who would later win a couple Oscars for "Shakespeare in Love").