Tracy Letts

Kind of a notable movie in that it's the first film ever to use the saturation strategy of release that would be used later the same year for Jaws.

There was a big marketing campaign.

We're going to put it in 1500.

We're just going to clobber them on the first weekend, and then we'll let them sort out the bodies after that.

And apparently, Breakout was the first movie to ever do that.

It seemed to do okay.

Directed by Tom Grise.

Yeah, there's some weird, like, comic aside.

It's strange to try to put him in a little more comic.

Yeah, that's not really his speed.

But I have to say, as a 10-year-old, there's a moment where Duvall believes that he's being smuggled out of the prison in a coffin, only to then be put in a hole and have some dirt thrown on him.

And as a 10-year-old, it scared the hell out of me.

Brits are allowed to be Brits, I guess, but we have to do a German accent.

It's interesting, too, in that it's directed by John Sturges.

And so if what Don Stroud had said was accurate, why does Duvall want to go back and work with John Sturges again?

Screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz, who was part of the Mankiewicz family, based on the book by Jack Higgins.

It's a...

Fun watch in a sense.

Yeah.

Great cast.