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A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
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Emilio Fernández
- J.V.
- (as Emilio Fernandez)
William B. White
- 2nd Officer
- (as Will B. White)
Sidney Clute
- Henderson
- (as Sidney Klute)
Chalo González
- Border Guard
- (as Chalo Gonzalez)
José María Caffarel
- Prison Doctor
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis movie was inspired by the real 1971 helicopter rescue and breakout of Joel David Kaplan from a Mexican prison which was orchestrated by lawyer Vasilios Basil Choulos. Film Critic Roger Ebert has said of this: "Kaplan was the scion of an American sugar-and-molasses empire with Latin American connections, and in the early 1960s, he was a courier for Fidel Castro. The Mexicans imprisoned him in 1962 on a highly questionable murder charge, and there were rumors that the C.I.A. was somehow involved. He was in prison nine years before his sister hired a California helicopter pilot to carry out a neat little mission spiriting Kaplan out of the prison yard. Ramparts published material about the C.I.A. connection, but Kaplan wouldn't talk, then or later. The movie's naturally more concerned with the rescue mission, than with any shadowy political implications. But there are a couple of leftovers from the original story in the sinister persons of a C.I.A. operative and the hero's rich grandfather. They seem to be in cahoots, although how or why is a little unclear."
- GoofsThe airport that Nick flies out of is located in Texas, but the surrounding countryside is covered with Joshua trees, which are only found in the Mohave desert of Southern Calif, the Southern tip of Nevada and Northwestern area of Arizona.
- Quotes
Myrna: I have to be convincing and I've never been raped.
Nick Colton: We should all be so lucky.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: MEXICO 1971
- ConnectionsFeatured in Kain's Quest: The Stone Killer (2015)
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The movie "Breakout" was based on a true story by Joel Kaplan, the man who actually broke out of a Mexican prison, after being framed for murder. He wrote the book, and I dated his sister. It was actually his sister who arranged his escape, not his fictional Hollywood wife. Hollywood greatly exaggerated the true story. Even the Mexican Attorney General admitted this was the greatest escape in Mexican prison history! The New York Times backs my story in about 1972. Jack Sandy
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- Breakout
- Filming locations
- Fort de Bellegarde, Le Perthus, France(Mexican prison)
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- $1,000,000 (estimated)
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