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...past 15 months in the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, where the longest trial in California history is expected to go to the jury next week. The case involves the so-called San Quentin Six,* who are accused of taking part in a 1971 prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother...
...year-especially doctors. By some estimates, the flow could reach $1 billion in 1976. Tax-shelter money now at least partly finances the production of more than half of all the films shown in the U.S., including such recent big-name flicks as Shampoo, Chinatown, Breakout and The Great Gatsby...
Perhaps Bronson vehicle and quality are no longer a contradiction in terms. This summer's Breakout, a diverting prisonbreak yarn, showed the usually saturnine star cracking jokes, playing big, generally and infectiously enjoying himself. In Hard Times, Bronson's role is closer to his customary image: the callous, uncommunicative loner. When this sort of projection does not work (The Stone Killer, Death Wish), Bronson is a Goliath who could be toppled by leprechauns. This time, however, the stolid performer manages to achieve an authentic, scruffy street dignity...
...BREAKOUT is the seasonal visit from Charles Bronson, this time more expansive than usual as a Texas border rat who is hired to bust Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. This caper-based on fact-also has the distinction of having inspired a real-life jailbreak in Michigan two weeks ago. Life is not always scrupulous about imitating art, however. The real convicts got caught...
...imitates life-or is it life that imitates art? Apparently both. First, in August 1971, there was the razzle-dazzle helicopter escape from a Mexico City prison of New York Businessman Joel Kaplan, convicted of a murder he said never happened. Then, last month, came the movie Breakout, in which Charles Bronson whisks framed Murderer Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison in, yes, a helicopter. Finally, last week, a man hired a helicopter at Mettetal Airport in Plymouth, Mich., and, once aloft, pulled a knife and ordered Pilot Richard Jackson to fly to the State Prison of Southern Michigan...