The man without nerves (1975)

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Movie
German title The man without nerves
Original title Breakout
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tom Gries
script Howard B. Kreitsek
Marc Norman
Elliott Baker
production Robert Chartoff
Irwin Winkler
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Lucien Ballard
cut Bud S. Isaacs
occupation

The man without nerves (original title: Breakout ) is an American action film from 1975. Directed by Tom Gries , the leading roles were played by Charles Bronson , Robert Duvall , Jill Ireland and John Huston .

Howard B. Kreitsek Marc Norman and Elliott Baker wrote the script based on the book The 10-Second Jailbreak. The Helicopter Escape of Joel David Kaplan by Eliot Asinof, Warren Hinckle, and William W. Turner.

action

The American Jay Wagner was arrested in Mexico in 1971 , charged with murder and sentenced to a 28-year prison term, although he was innocent. In this way, the driving force behind events, Jay's grandfather Harris Wagner, seeks to prevent his grandson from convicting him of business corruption.

Jay's wife, Ann, works out a plan to free Jay and borrows money from Harris to carry out her plan. She turns to Nick Colton, who runs an air service in Brownsville, Texas, and is supposed to pick up her husband on one of his sports machines while road works outside of prison. The attempt fails. As did a second Colton plan that he carried out with his partner Hawk Hawkins. To do this, Hawk sneaks into the prison disguised as a prostitute. However, he is exposed and beaten up.

Colton starts a third rescue operation with a helicopter, which despite a series of difficulties leads to the US border airport. There, however, a killer hired by Harris tries to bring Jay into his power. In the final showdown between the killer and Nick Colton on the airport taxiway, the killer is torn to pieces by a running propeller of an approaching machine.

Production and Background

The film was shot in France and Spain . It grossed approximately $ 16 million in American cinemas .

The plot of Breakout is inspired by the real liberation of Joel David Kaplan, who was imprisoned in Mexico, in 1971 and the book that accompanied it. The sports machine used in the film is a Piper PA-18 , the helicopter is an Alouette II .

Contrary to the often held belief Jaws (Jaws) , which was released in June 1975 the first feature film of the (US) cinema history with a cinema revolutionary mass start was that published in March 1975, The Man Without a nerve , which is said to have started simultaneously with 1,300 copies in 1,000 US cinemas, as the first blockbuster. Although was breakout not nearly as successful as Jaws , however, its estimated production costs played in just two weeks already again.

Reviews

Roger Ebert , on the reference to the Kaplan exemption, wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 29, 1975 that Kaplan was alleged to have connections with the CIA . While the film largely leaves out the political background, it would have been better if it had been shot as a pure thriller. The "first-class action star" Bronson shows incompetence in some scenes.

The lexicon of international film was of the opinion that the film offered "very routine and staged entertainment based solely on action".

Cinema magazine found: "Solid to powerful action: not original, but skilfully copied from much better films."

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said: "A comedian was born, somewhere between Quax, the Bruchpilot , and the cynic James Bond ."

The Frankfurter Rundschau drew the conclusion, “Director Gries carefully and skilfully pulls (the) mixture of action scenes and reflective nuances through ... that he also gets a new side to Bronson, namely that of somewhat depressed helplessness, making his film even more sympathetic ”.

Awards

The film received the Golden Reel Award in 1976 for sound editing .

literature

  • The 10-Second Jailbreak - The Helicopter Escape of Joel David Kaplan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The 10-Second Jailbreak - The Helicopter Escape of Joel David Kaplan; Eliot Asinof, Warren Hinckle, and William W. Turner; New York; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1973, ISBN 0-03-001011-X .
  2. ↑ Breakout filming locations, accessed January 15, 2008
  3. ↑ Box office / business for Breakout, accessed January 15, 2008
  4. ↑ Andreas Eckenfels: The man without nerves - The granite face can grin (Breakout) at dienachtderlebendentexte.wordpress.com, accessed on June 7, 2017.
  5. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed January 15, 2008
  6. ↑ The man without nerves. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Cinema, accessed August 14, 2017
  8. ↑ a b quoted from Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon ( Memento from August 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )