The Jailbreakers

The Jailbreakers (1960)

Jeff and Cheryl go on the lam for an outing at the nearest ghost town in The Jailbreakers.

Written, Directed and Produced by Alexander Grasshoff 

Cast:
Robert Hutton as Tom
Mary Castle as June
Michael O'Connell as Lake
Gabe Delutri as Joe
Anton von Stralen as Stearn
Toby Hill as Karen
Carlos Chávez as Bushman
Coleman Francis as Sheriff

An Alta Vista Production
Released by American International Pictures 

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
The Jailbreakers, three desperate men whose plans are interrupted by two innocent people,

(00:06):
Robert Hutton and Mary Castle, trapped in a web of terror that'll tear your nerves to shreds.
The ringleader determined to get away with a fortune they all came to hijack.
The Torpedo, cunningly conniving, to satisfy his killer lust.
The Penitentiary Hercules, driven mad by desires too long to night.

(00:29):
No man has ever faced such hopeless odds.
No stolen fortune has brought more terrifying dangers.
We're not talking about actors. We mean a real monster. I brought her back.

(00:54):
She'll live and I'll get her another body.
I know they're gonna catch me but don't let anyone see me like that. Please, Doctor, help me!
Biologically speaking, it's a primary importance that man should want to mate.
Hey, that’s right!
You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
And we want to get loaded.

(01:16):
You think you're gonna make a slave of the world? I'll see you in Hell first!
The American International Podcast.
Are you ready?
Hi there, I'm Jeff Markin.
And I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And thanks for taking a break with the American International Podcast.
We're today, we will be talking about The Jailbreakers from 1960.

(01:37):
The Jailbreakers was written, directed and produced by Alexander Grasshoff for Alta Vista Productions
and released by American International Pictures.
Appearing in the jailbreakers are Robert Hutton as Tom, Mary Castle as June,
Michael O'Connell as Lake, Gabe Delutri as Joe, Anton von Stralen as Stern,
Toby Hill as Karen, Carlos Chávez as Bushman, and Coleman Francis as the Sheriff.

(02:00):
As a movie opens, we see a car waiting outside the state prison.
The driver pulls forward as three jailbreakers drop outside the prison wall.
Those three scramble into the car and it drives away.
And then title credits, Coleman Francis?
The car is driving awfully fast on narrow roads.
Inside the car, the three escapees change into street clothes,
slash the hoodlum uniform of a suit and tie.

(02:21):
These three men are Lake, Stern and Joe.
Together, we will refer to them as the jailbreakers.
The driver drops them off at a rendezvous point where they are to meet with Tom,
who is Lake Stepson.
Joe asks for and receives a gun, and they realize that Tom hasn't arrived yet.
The driver tells the jailbreakers that Tom is on his way before speeding off.

(02:42):
Lake, the older of the three, looks of scances Joe plays with his weapon.
Stern craves that their ride better show up, but it's not long before a car comes down the road
and parks it in a nearby driveway.
It's in front of a fence.
The kid that we've been promised gets out, but he's not alone.
Oozzy with, as Joe.
Lake doesn't know.
Lake goes over to the car to say hi to Tom.
When he was in prison, he and Tom lost touch because Lake didn't want Tom to see him locked up.

(03:06):
He asked Tom about his companion.
She had gone off to see if she could find some coffee or breakfast or something at a nearby restaurant.
But Tom calls her back to meet his old man.
Tom introduces his wife, June.
And Lake says he has some friends he'd like Tom to meet as well.
He calls them over and introduces Mr. Stern and Joe Spender.
Then Lake suggests he could talk better in the car.

(03:27):
So Stern and Joe take the back while Lake sits in the front with Tom and June.
No breakfast for June.
Lake asks if they can put the top up, but Tom says it was broken when he bought it.
Hmm. Now, I wonder why he wants the top up.
As they drive off, Tom asks why he wanted to meet at this particular restaurant
and why are they now headed to the mountains.
Lake explains that now that he's out of prison, they're going to meet one of the men for the syndicate

(03:49):
and maybe get some evidence to clear his name of that conspiracy charge so that he can practice log in.
He tells June he was a big time lawyer once upon a time.
But June was all about that.
She's read the articles that Tom has kept about his stepfather.
Tom says that that was all before he tried a big case for that crime syndicate.
Tom thinks this is a fantastic idea by which he means hard to believe.
What if this guy wants to stop him from bringing the case out into the open again?

(04:13):
Lake says he's been waiting for this day for 10 years.
So if that's their plan, he needs to know about it now.
Tom tells us that this plan came together late last night.
Tom never knew Lake was due to be released today.
Lake says, "Yeah, sure was last minute as Stern rolls his eyes."
Then Lake immediately changes the subject.
How long have Tom and June been married?
Almost a year now says June.

(04:35):
Any kids?
Ha ha ha, not yet.
Chuckles June?
In the backseat, Stern is getting a little antsy.
Would you mind going a little faster?
And I think they do what they seem to be driving a little faster to these mountainous roads.
June notes that they picked a hot day for such a long drive.
Tom says maybe some cool music will help, but Lake tells them not to turn on the radio.
I wonder why he doesn't want the radio turned on.

(04:56):
The car is going through a small town and the sheriff eyes the out of town or suspiciously as they drive past him.
June wants to stop to grab a bite, but Lake says no.
Even for Bidzer from stopping at a grocery store to get a candy bar, no stopping.
This woman is going to be hangry soon.
Tom does not see the suspicious behavior as the massive red flag it is.
So he proceeds to the route.

(05:18):
Lake tells Tom that every moment counts and they've got to get there before he arrives.
Well, why didn't you say so, says Tom?
And after a short while, they pull up into a ghost town.
They make a squeaky stop out of ghost town.
The five eggs of the car and each have a look around.
June comments on the weirdness of this place and everybody silently strolls about.
Then a snake slithers into view before hiding itself under some boards lying on the ground.

(05:42):
Lake demands that Stern hide the vehicle behind the old saloon.
Stern asks Lake when he's going to tell Tom what's going on.
I'll tell him, says Lake.
Then Tom comes over and asks Lake where he's taking the car.
Lake says he's just putting it off the road.
Then Tom and June sit down on the bench outside the general store.
This is going to be kind of their home based for the rest of the movie.

(06:03):
June thinks it's odd how shocked they see him when Tom introduced her to them.
And she wonders if they might be involved in something.
Tom doesn't know.
Lake has Stern keeping a lookout on one end of town and he asks Joe to keep a lookout on the other end of town.
What for asked Joe? He's not coming from the mountains.
No, but somebody else might, says Lake.
We don't want to be seen by anyone.
As Joe trudges off, Lake warns him to stay out of the buildings unless he wants to be bitten by a rattlesnake.

(06:27):
Lake goes over to join Tom and June.
Tom asks who they're waiting for.
Lake says a man named Bushman, but that's all he knows.
Again, Lake is anxious to change the subject.
He says they really caught him by surprise when they told him Tom was married.
The possibility never dawned on him.
Is he a good cook? That's Lake.
I don't know. Are you? June asked Tom.
Lake tells Tom that he doesn't even know what Tom does for a living.

(06:50):
June tells him that Tom is studying law.
So that's something they have in common.
Lake asks if Tom is doing okay financially and Tom says,
"Yes, he's studying under the GI bill."
Lake thinks this is a very fine idea.
Then Lake tells Tom that if Bushman comes through, Tom won't have to worry about a thing.
If he doesn't, then Lake will be digging ditches.

(07:11):
He's been disbarred, you know.
June asks if he can't practice in another state.
And then he says, "He can't practice anywhere."
Sucks to be used as June, or at least that's what she's thinking, I think.
Joe comes up and Lake demands to know, "What's the matter?"
Joe fests us up that he won't be stuck steering it in unused road all day.
Lake tells him to take a walk with him.
As they walk off, June notes that she doesn't like the way that that guy Joe looks at her.

(07:36):
And neither does Tom.
He thinks they're all acting strange.
And did she notice the gun in Joe's back pocket?
What's he doing with the gun, Ass June?
Didn't they all just get out of prison?
Tom tells her to take it easy.
Tom comes as little lady down or tries to.
But June now has a terrible feeling about this.
Now, on the stroll, Joe asks Lake if he can trust his kid.

(07:57):
Lake said that he didn't count on the girl being there.
And Joe asks again, when is Lake going to tell them?
Lake says he will stop asking already.
Joe suggests just letting them go.
Don't really need them around here.
Lake asks if Joe wants to give them 10 cents to go buy a newspaper.
So they can read about the prison break, I guess.
Lake says that as long as they keep an eye on them, they will hear about the prison break.

(08:19):
Then Stern calls Lake over to talk to him.
Back with June and Tom, they're about to try something radical.
They get in their car.
Tom thinks they might look awfully stupid if they've been suspicious over nothing.
But June says they'll never know unless they try.
So they get into the car and start to drive off.
Back with Lake and Stern.
Lake says that the kid will do exactly as he says.
But to prove him wrong, Tom is driving his car down the deserted town's main slash only road.

(08:44):
Serving plants himself directly in front of the car after Tom pauses.
He shouldn't have stopped.
Lake goes to the car and asks, what's the matter?
Tom explains that June forgot to bring her medication, not knowing they'd be out this long.
And he's taking her to the doctor.
Lake tells them that Bushman will be along any moment and to wait.
Tom says he'll just drop her off and come right back.
She's in pain and has to go to the doctor.

(09:05):
Then Joe comes up from behind the driver's side, pulls Tom from the car at gunpoint.
Put the gun away, his is Lake.
Lake says he's sorry it has to be this way.
June gets out of the car and Joe gets in to go park it elsewhere.
Lake tries to talk to Tom alone and June goes off unsupervised.
Lake tells Tom that he wanted to tell Tom about what was going on, but June showing up made it a problem for him.

(09:28):
He had to ask Tom though, because he's the only one that Lake could trust.
Lake continues that Bushman's a vicious man and he was released from prison at the same time Lake was.
And Bushman has a hidden fortune nearly $400,000 hidden in this town.
Tom says that this could get Lake another 10 years in prison.
Not a chance says Lake Bushman wouldn't dare go to the police.
Someone stole my stolen money.

(09:49):
And another thing, Lake needs time to contact some people for him who think he's still in prison.
Lake tells him to be careful what he tells June because women don't always understand these things.
And I guess that's why this stupid plot makes no sense to me.
And we go back to Joe and Stern who are sitting on a porch and bantering a bit.
The flies don't bother Stern, but they sure are all over Joe.

(10:10):
Back at their safety bench, Tom has told June what's going on and she wants to know how Tom can trust Lake.
He hardly knows him any more than she does.
Tom says his stepfather isn't a criminal and he was wrongfully sent to prison.
So this is the least he can do for him.
What about the gun asked June?
Did you ask what they are going to do with it?
Murder Bushman, she goes on to say.
And some whimsical clarinet and sex music plays as Joe lumbers through town.

(10:35):
He spies a sleeping Stern who's supposed to be the watchman and shoots in the general direction of Stern's chair.
A shirtless Stern falls off the porch and onto the dirt.
He gets up hopping mad and when Lake comes over, he is too.
Joe says he was just practicing on sleeping beauty target practice.
Stern warns Joe to never let him catch him without his gun.

(10:56):
And then Lake tells Stern to keep his eyes open.
And on the road, after that excitement, Tom and June return to their bench.
I've got to get ahold of that gun, says Tom.
Joe goes to the porch of the saloon and starts banging out what could terribly be described as a tune by someone who is not me though.
Stern seems really annoyed by this.
It's pretty out of tune piano.
It's not hard to be annoyed.

(11:17):
Suddenly the piano playing stops and two gunshots ring out.
Joe is shooting at a rattlesnake.
Then he throws his gun at it.
They'll stop it.
Lake runs over and tells Tom to pick up the gun.
Are you kidding, says Joe, and we see that the snake has wrapped itself around the gun.
Tom runs up with a stick and warns them that it might still be alive.
He waxes at the snake a couple of times and picks up the gun and shoots at the snake twice.

(11:40):
Lake tears the gun from Tom's hand and it gives it back to Joe.
Joe opens it and checks the chamber and snows at Tom.
Do you know what you've done?
What chance do we have against Bushman now?
There's only one bullet left in the chamber.
Would you throw it for, ask Lake?
You didn't want me to waste all the bullets, Tija, says Joe.
Tom says they can still sneak up on Bushman and don't have to risk killing him this way.

(12:01):
Just then, June calls out that a car is coming.
Lake orders everyone to pick up some sort of weapon, a stone or whatever, and hide.
And Tom has to take June somewhere out of the way.
Joe takes cover in a hole, a stern picks up a stone and hides behind the piano,
and Lake picks up Tom's stick and hides behind some boxes.
Tom and June take cover as well but are weaponless.
Well, there's your answer, says June.

(12:23):
They don't need a gun to kill him. They'll just beat him to death.
The car pulls in and parks, but it's not Bushman.
It's a honeymooning couple who are exploring the husband's favorite ghost town, or one of them at least.
The two of them banter for a while until she gets bored and they drive off.
Never knowing that they weren't there in that town alone.
Stern makes fun of the couple after they leave, and Tom vows to do something, but he doesn't really know what to do.

(12:45):
Lake and Joe have decided they need more bullets, and Joe says he knows where he can get some.
Tom objects, but Lake tells him that Bushman will be coming with a gun, and the only thing that will stop him is a gun.
We're not going to shoot him, he says. We're just going to stop him from shooting us.
Lake wants Joe and Tom to go buy some bullets.
Although this is pre-Walmarts, so I don't know where they're going to shop for bullets.

(13:06):
Tom agrees to go with Joe only if he can take June and drop her off at a hospital on the way.
Your wife isn't sick, says Lake as he angrily stamps off.
Meanwhile, Joe has gone to the car and is taking off.
Stop him, Stern, shout's lake, but this time, Stern is unsuccessful in stopping the car.

(13:28):
Joe has driven to the next town, or the past town, and he's watching the local eye candy.
Do women from town stroll past and Joe eyes them hungrily.
Then Joe pivots his head to see the sheriff, gun at his side, and Joe eyes that hungrily as well.
As the sheriff gets into his car and drives off, Joe starts up Tom's fair lane and follows him.
As they head around a corner, Joe passes the police car and speeds on ahead.

(13:52):
The sheriff turns on his siren and pursues.
Eventually, Joe pulls over.
The sheriff approaches Joe's car and asks for his driver's license.
Joe says, "Sure, but Joe's him is fist instead."
The sheriff falls backwards and Joe hops out of the car and the two fight.
Joe grabs the sheriff's gun and shoots him twice.
Then he kneels over the sheriff's prone body and fishes around his waist for some more ammo.

(14:14):
However, there's another truck headed his way, so he takes what he can, hops in his car, and drives away.
The truck pulls up and the occupants jump out to check on the pollen sheriff.
He's still alive, so one of them waits while the other gets in his truck and presumably goes for help.
Meanwhile, Joe turns the car around to head back to the ghost town, which takes a lot of maneuvering.
A lot of squeaky breaking.

(14:37):
We haven't even started talking about that.
It's very noticeable because this car, as all cars in this movie, have a very squeaky break.
Nearly every time a car comes to a stop, we hear, "Eek, eek, eek, eek."
Over and over again, I kept account.
I'll let you know at the end of the movie how many times this happened.
There's four or five stops in this little bit of maneuvering alone as he's turning around at a crossroads trying to fare on which way to go.

(15:04):
Because it turns out Joe's lost.
With all this stop and go, the Ford Fairline is starting to overheat.
Joe stops at a firehouse where a young girl Karen is getting the mail.
As Joe drives by, he asks if he can get some water.
She says, "He grabs her watering can and pours it into the car. You can't go around without water," she says.
"Yeah, I noticed," says Joe.

(15:26):
He says he's looking for a ghost town around 50 miles from there.
She points him in the direction of Central City.
Then he asks if there's anyone around here who can fix a car.
She recommends her dad who runs a filling station in town.
Joe repeats, "Is there anyone around here that can fix my car?
Just me and I can't fix cars," she says, and Joe's not amused.
She hovers around him as he fudges under the hood.

(15:49):
She says that he must be from the city because he looks so nervous.
That's how city people look.
She's about to ask what he does that makes him so nervous,
but that's answered when she sees the gun that Joe left out on the seat of the car.
She clams up and starts to back towards the house.
Joe asks what it gives, and she says she's supposed to be watching Mrs. Reynolds' baby inside.

(16:10):
Joe figures out what she saw and what she's doing and grabs her.
They struggle and she falls and loses one of her pumps.
Joe slaps Karen and tells her to shut up.
Then he pulls her up and puts her in the car.
As they pull out, Karen takes the scarf off of her head.
She drops it in the street in front of the house as Joe drives her off.
I guess that in the shoe will prove that she didn't leave willingly.

(16:31):
But as to where she went, who would be able to tell?
Back in the ghost town, Stern is irked at how long Joe's been gone.
Like says they can only wait, but Stern wants to go hunting for cars in the mountains.
Maybe he'll bag himself a good one.
Hmm, says Lake.
Meanwhile, Tom and June are discussing their dilemma.
Tom thinks they can come up with a plan if they become more acquainted with their surroundings.

(16:55):
So he wants to go explore beyond a hill over there, he says pointing.
But June has grown rather attached to the bench in front of the general store,
so she tells him to go off without her.
She'll be all right.
Stern is ragging on Lake.
He thought he was the brains of this outfit.
Lake says that if he had brains, he'd have left Stern in his cell.
Now with nothing to do, Stern comes over to harass June.
He determines she's alone and asks to talk to her, but she doesn't want to talk to him.

(17:19):
He takes this as poorly as you might expect.
He snarls, "What are you too good to talk to me?"
And she does not answer honestly.
Instead, she just tries to walk away.
But Stern grabs her, and June calls out Tommy.
Tom runs back to confront Stern.
Though Stern is a big guy.
Muscular big.
Tom gives him a chop in the back, which causes Stern to let out a high-pitched scream as he falls to the ground.

(17:43):
Stern gets back up and Tom flips him over his shoulder.
Once again, Stern gets up and comes at Tom.
But a chop to the face sends Stern again to the ground and again screaming like a girl.
Lake walks over to mock him.
You're a little rusty, muscles.
And June confronts her husband who won the battle.
Now we catch up with Jo and his hostage.
She seems to have nodded off in the car, although later we'll find out that he gave her a head injury, and that's why she's out.

(18:09):
At any rate, she's leaning up against him.
She wakes up and tries to get away from him.
He goes on the brakes and tells her that he can give her life or death, so she should wise up and do what he says.
And having given that warning, he drives off.
Back in Central City, June and Tom are back on their bench.
June has noticed that Stern hasn't taken his eyes off Tom.
Since Tom kicked the crap out of him, Tom's not concerned about that right now, though.

(18:32):
He's trying to figure out how they can get out of this situation after Joe returns with their car.
If he can't figure out a way out of this, they'll have to wait until the police eventually show up and try to explain that they're not with these guys.
Tom takes a final drag on his cigarette and throws it out.
Then he goes over to talk to his stepfather.
Lake tells Tom that he's impressed with his skills.
Tom says he learned that in the Marines.

(18:53):
Tom asks what Lake stands to gain from this deal.
Well, it's $100,000. Isn't that enough?
Then Tom asks, "Yeah, but what do you have to lose?" meaning his freedom.
Lake thinks that he's simplifying things.
Tom reminds him that with Stern and Joe out there, Lake is going to be in danger for the rest of his life.
He'll either get a visit from the police after Joe and Stern squeal on him.

(19:14):
Or he'll get blackmailed by them at some point in the future.
But Lake has thought all that through.
And they're just going to scare Bushman, not kill him.
Don't you remember? Tom figures that it's likely if Joe returns, he'll shoot them all and take off with all the cash.
Tom, I hate to tell you buddy, but they all have the same plan.
That's how these movies work.
Lake tells Tom he'll make a great lawyer, but he needs to be sure to get all the facts.

(19:37):
Lake says that 10 years ago he was offered an opportunity by a criminal and he took it.
And now he's offered another opportunity for $100,000 to start over.
And he'd be a fool not to take it.
Then he drops the bombshell.
10 years ago in that trial, he was guilty.
Tom is shocked. Guilty?
So now he can never practice law again and he has nothing to lose in this deal.

(19:59):
He tells Tom, thanks for trying, kid, and Tom walks away defeated.
Just then, Joe returns to the ghost town with Karen.
The car's weeks to a halt as he steps out from the car, a voice yells at him to drop the gun and turn around.
Thinking his Bushman Joe complies.
Then Stern drops off a second story balcony and rushes over to Joe.
At the same time, Lake goes up to him.

(20:21):
Joe is trying to get the dropped gun, but Stern tackles him.
Lake picks it up.
Stern asks where Joe put the bullets, but Joe says he doesn't have anymore.
Lake goes to Karen and asks where he picked her up.
Karen says she wasn't picked up.
He kidnapped her.
"Kidnapped you," says Lake.
Then Lake goes over to Joe, who's being patted down by Stern.
"I can't find any bullet time," says Stern.
Lake asks where Joe put the bullets.

(20:43):
And Joe moans, he used them on the sheriff.
Lake looks at the girl who's dressed for reasons known only to the director is semi-seethor.
Tom and June have been watching the proceedings from their bench and June decides that they should help the girl.
She looks frightened, so they go over and drag her back to the bench, not saying a word to her until they get there.
Once there they trade names and get her story.
She's Karen done and she says she was forced into the car after seeing Joe's gun and knocked out when she tried to escape.

(21:08):
But no one saw them leaving.
She goes on to say that she had been babysitting for Mrs. Reynolds, who was due back any minute.
And that Karen lost her shoe in the driveway and left her scarf on the road in front of the house.
And that road leads up here to Central City, so surely they'll be able to find her.
I assume it leads elsewhere.
That's 50 miles of road. It's got more than one turn off.
Tom tells her not to say anything else as Lake comes over.

(21:31):
Lake asks if anyone saw her.
Tom says no one saw anything, but they won't be able to stay much longer.
Just long enough for Bushman says Lake as he strolls off.
This whole movie is waiting for Bushman.
Karen exposits that Lake is the guy from the news.
When she saw the gun in the seat, she put two and two together and realized that Joe was one of the jailbreakers.
She doesn't know his first name or the names of the other two guys with them, but she does know that they escaped from prison.

(21:56):
Tom can't believe it. They escaped.
Tom demands Karen tell them everything that she knows.
I think she just did.
The next scene stern walks within 10 towards Lake.
He's convinced that the cops are now going to zero in on them because they have Karen with them.
Lake poofes this, but says the stern can make a run for it over the mountains if he likes.
Slowly Joe's inert form starts to move and he gets up.

(22:17):
He demands his gun, but of course Lake hangs onto it.
What are you talking about? You needed a gun, didn't you?
And I got it for you, didn't I?
"No more guns for you, Joe," says Lake.
He doesn't see how one man can do all the stupid things Joe has done in one day.
So Joe thinks of a stupid thing that was done today that wasn't Joe's fault.
Who decided to bring him, he asks pointing at Tom?

(22:38):
Lake goes back over to Tom.
Tom tries to appeal to Lake's better nature by showing him Lake's old law book.
One Tom is hung onto all these years.
Tom says that this book belonged to a man with the future.
Yeah, but that's not Lake anymore, Tom.
At least not after the next 15 minutes happen.
Anyway, Tom throws the book in the dirt and drops the news.

(23:00):
He knows Lake is an escaped convict.
Lake looks ashamed for the first time all movie.
Now Tom, June and Karen are all sitting on the bench watching Stern March pass.
They see him report to Lake, then he walks back in the other direction.
Then Tom and June walk over to the saloon.
June heads toward the porch as Tom goes beside it to speak with Lake.
Tom says that it looks like Bushman isn't coming.

(23:22):
Supposedly found out about the prison break and decided not to come.
And how did he break out anyway?
Lake caution seemed to get back.
Then we hear June calling for help.
Tom and Lake go around the corner to see June seated on the porch of the building.
And she looks like she's pretending to be hurt.
Lake tells Tom to help his wife.
Tom reaches for her, but she shrieks snake.
And this is enough of a distraction for Tom to grab the gun.

(23:45):
Tom orders everyone to come over there.
Stern and Tom line up next to Lake and June and Karen stand behind Tom.
"What do you think you're going to do, Tom?" says Lake.
"Take us back into town. The car will be a little crowded.
I'd give you the keys if I thought it would help.
Besides, there's only one bullet in that gun.
And you know what will happen to you if you do."
"Yep, if he shoots one of them, the remaining two are free to clobber him.

(24:06):
And do God knows what to the women?"
Lake assures Stern and Joe that Tom isn't going to shoot and tells him to spread out.
Tom defeated, drops the gun.
Stern grabs it and tells Joe to bring the car around.
Then he tells Tom and Lake to take off their ties and for Lake to use them to tie them up.
Over at the car, Joe grabs the bullets he had hidden under the floor mat.

(24:27):
Then he drives the car back to the others.
Stern says they should have done this a long time ago, referring to tying up Tom.
When Joe returns with the car, Tom and June and Karen are pushed into the back seat and Stern hands the gun to Joe.
Then Stern climbs behind the wheel and says, "So long, sucker, to Lake."
They start to leave, but Lake tells them to wait.
There's a car coming.
"Oh, finally."
It must be Bushman.

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We waited for him. This long, Strux, Joe.
The car does a three-point turn, breaks streaking all the way.
And Stern takes it around back.
So they hide the car with Tom, June and Karen still in the back seat.
June and Karen are gagged and Tom is punched out before Joe ducks out of sight.
When you say gag, though, they just tie a handkerchiefs under their noses.
They're not gagged in any way.

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And then they take position outside as the car approaches.
But the car just pulls through the ghost town and moves on.
So the jailbreakers follow them on foot.
They take cover behind a big rock and see Bushman get out of his car.
But he's too far away for them to do anything.
So they go a little closer and take cover behind Bushman's car.
And they watch as he begins digging for his loot.
Joe has his gun at the ready.

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But Lake tells Joe to wait until Bushman finds the money.
Back at the car, Tom comes too.
He asks Karen to untie him.
And he says he's going to go warn Bushman to not start digging
because then they won't shoot him.
But it's too late.
Bushman is digging.
Bushman continues digging as Tom comes near.
From behind the car, Joe has his gun pointed at Bushman.
Don't miss, Bushman's Lake.

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Tom yells, "Bushman, watch out!"
As Joe fires the gun.
Yeah, thanks to Tom's early warning, he was able to catch the bullet right in his head.
Stern rushes up to Bushman, who's dead on his feet and takes his gun
before he drops his inert form on the dirt.
Stern takes a shot in Tom's direction.
But Lake says not to worry about them now.
It's time to collect their fortune.
They crouch around the hole and look.

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But there's no money at first.
Then three of them start digging with their hands.
Tom retures to the car and tells the women that they killed Bushman in cold blood.
He cuts the Fairlaine's brake line, saying they won't get far on these mountain roads.
Then he orders the women to hide away from the car.
Meanwhile, the jailbreakers have been successful and found the case.
Stern shoots sit open.
As they're admiring their treasure, they fail to see Tom putting Bushman's car in neutral

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and pushing it toward them.
They look up and Stern fires off a shot.
Joe falls backwards just as the car rolls towards him.
It bumps his leg and moves perpendicular to his body in an odd fashion.
But don't worry, he's okay.
Well, what's weird about this is that we see Joe Stern and Lake all together on the side of the car.

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Tom pushes it and then an instant later, Joe is in front of the car, getting run over.
And he only basically is saved by the fact that there's a big rock there next door.
And his leg is that actually helps stop the car.
Yeah, this movie is difficult to find, but we do recommend you go to our webpage and look at the trailer.
We do have the trailer available and that shot of him getting hit by the car is in the trailer.

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And it's kind of amusing to see.
Put it mildly.
Stern gets off a shot and Tom is wounded as he runs away.
Then Stern fights with Lake and though he can't shoot him, no bullets left, he knocks him down and steals the cash box.
He runs to the car, jumps in and backs off Joe's legs.
Joe jumps up and then Stern drives off.
As it passes him, Joe shoots the car in the gas tank and it leaves behind a stream of gasoline and the dirt as it leaves.

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Tom returns to town, holding a shoulder and June runs up to meet him.
Then we see Joe reloading his gun with the bullets he stashed.
As Lake comes to and stumbles toward him, where'd you get the bullets he asked?
Joe turns around and shoots him.
Didn't I tell you from the sheriff?
Then Joe runs off.
Tom and June have taken refuge in a hollowed out tree. June sees that Tom has been injured and he assures her he's fine.

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Then they see Joe run out and take their car.
Where's Karen as Tom?
She's alright, June is Shersen.
And we have to take your word for it.
Stern wasn't able to get very far up with his busted gas tank so Joe catches up to him easily.
Stern sees him coming so he grabs the stash from the car and starts to run up a hill.
Joe jumps out of the car and shoots head him. Stern drops the money and continues running.

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When Joe grabs the money, Stern attempts to jump him, but Joe shoots him dead in the air.
He falls off a giant boulder.
Then Joey turns to the fair lane with the money.
Joe is free now.
He and his money box cruising down twisty, turny roads with hairpin turns.
Then Joe gets a bright idea to fondle his ill-gotten cash.
Naturally in the convertible, the wind starts to pick up some bills.

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Joe tries to retrieve his money but soon realizes he has bigger problems.
When he tries to slow down and the brakes don't work.
Apparently the steering doesn't work either because he carines off the side of the mountain because crime doesn't pay.
Back at the ranch, Tom picks up the law Bible that he had dropped in the dirt and flips through it.
He grimaces to himself and then joins June and Karen.

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But I guess really what's safe to start the 50 mile truck back to anywhere else.
And that's the end.
You're listening to the American International podcast and we're discussing the jailbreakers from 1960.
Not a lot is known about the production of the jailbreakers and believe me, I did try to find something.

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One thing I found was an online blog detailing the history of the Iverson movie ranch, where the ghost town scenes were filmed.
The person running the blog examined the state of the buildings in some scenes from the jailbreakers.
And by comparing it to other movies shot there, determined that jailbreakers must have been filmed about 1955 or 1956.
But we don't have another source we can use to verify that claim.
We do know from IMDB that some other scenes were shot in Richmond, Virginia.

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1959 and 1960 were eventful years for Mary Castle who played June and not in a good way.
Castle, known for her resemblance to Rita Hayworth, was found drunk on a beach wearing only her underwear in September of 1959.
Two weeks later she was arrested for another episode of public intoxication and tried to hang herself in her cell.
She was revived, released on bail and ended up paying a fine.

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Castle filed for bankruptcy in 1960 and a few months later was arrested for yet another bout of public drunkenness.
Less than a week after her release, she pled guilty to charges of failing to appear in court on a traffic violation from two years earlier and was ordered to pay a $50 fine.
Robert Hutton, who played Tom, was born in 1920, when you're earlier than Michael O'Connell, who played his stepfather Lake.

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But did look a good bit older than him.
This was the first film for writer, director, producer Alex Grasshoff, who was 27 at the time he made the jailbreakers.
He would later go on to direct television and documentaries, and he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1968 for Young Americans.
But it was revoked after the Academy discovered that the film had been shown first in 1967, thus making it ineligible for an Oscar in 1968.

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This is the only time in the Academy's history that an Oscar has been revoked.
Gabe Duluthre's big break was in a segment of the Playhouse 90 television show after which Grasshoff left him auditioned for the role of Joe.
That's according to the A.I.P. Press book.
Coleman Francis played the sheriff who was gunned down by Joe.
He would later go on to infamy as the director of terrible films like The Sky Divers, Beast of Yucca Flats and Red Zone Cuba,

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all skewered on Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and with good reason.
The film was released in the article in the May 12, 1959 issue of Los Angeles Mirror, announced that American International had purchased the recently completed movie The Jailbreakers.
The Mirror's article credited the theater or tiktun as the producer.
So since that wasn't true, maybe it wasn't recently completed either.
The Jailbreakers was released in the US on a double bill with Why Must I Die in June of 1960.

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In some areas though, it was paired with the road racers and in others with circus of horrors.
When it reached New York City in January of 1961, it shared billing with Goliath and the dragon.
Taglines for the Jailbreakers include Four Desperate Men on a $400,000 Trail of Terror.
$400,000 in Four Desperate Men in a Race Against Time, Fengence and Violence.

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Roy Litherland of The Bolton News, a British paper, published his review of the Jailbreakers in March of 1960 when it was paired with road racers at a Manchester trade show.
He called both films a complete waste of time. Both are American and both look as though they have cost about three pence each to make.
No studio sets are used and with the exception of a couple of names, Castle and Hutton, the actors and actresses are unknown.

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Of the two films, Litherland found road racers to be the poorer, cautioning the whole thing is such a mix-up mess that it's best forgotten.
Newsday's review and brief call the Jailbreakers an extremely mediocre treatment of that old chestnut about some criminals who threaten a nice young couple.
Howard Thompson of The New York Times reviewed the Jailbreakers and Goliath and the Dragon when both opened their in 1961.

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He wrote, "The word for the Jailbreakers is pitiful, calling the double feature rock bottom of Surgery.
American International Pictures is the sponsor of this completely junky program that totals more than two and a half hours of mighty hard-sitting.
He concludes that the Jailbreakers was a feeble, static and trumped-up clinker."
And that's the extent of what I could find out about the Jailbreakers online. I'm sure there's more out there and people are welcome to contribute their information if they know something we don't, but that was how much I could find.

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So, as I mentioned, the Jailbreakers is a very difficult movie to find and apparently it wasn't very popular upon its initial release, which means that we have to talk about it ourselves.
We always talk about our movies ourselves. If they're popular, if they're not, it really comes down to how we feel about a movie because this is our podcast.
But in this case, our opinions hold more weight because there isn't anybody to speak against us.

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Not living, anyway.
It's hard to say what I feel about this movie because it's so slight. It's basically an episode of a TV show. It's 64 minutes long.
It's almost like a TV show bottle episode because everything happens in the same place and there's hardly any movement beyond that.
There is, but it's just brief.

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I love the fact that Tom and June just hang out on that bench most of the movie.
It makes the movie very static, not just them, but the whole cast being stuck in this one location. It's a very small cast.
I think of the people that we named. There is nobody else that even had a speaking part.
The cars. The cars are my favorite characters.
The brakes, you mean the squealy brakes.

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Yeah, they say, and that's it.
Like I said, I counted. There were 28 brake squeals in 64 minutes.
That's one every other minute just about that's a lot, especially since they were not driving for most of the movie.
This movie is set up almost like a play or it could be a play.
Yeah.
Just because there's not a lot of movement and not a lot of location and Tom and June sit on the bench most of the time.

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You think they'd be the ones waiting for Bushman.
Speaking of waiting for Bushman, which would have meant a much better title for this movie, it almost seemed like he was never going to show up.
I got the impression when I first watched it that this was just an exercise and futility and they just end up killing each other trying to find the loop themselves.
Maybe one of them would find it and then everybody would be killed.
Yeah, I did too.

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And then Tom and June could drive off and I guess regret their decisions at their leisure.
Yeah, I too was surprised when Bushman actually showed up.
And he's only in the movie for the last what four minutes or so.
And he doesn't have any lines, but he gets a credit. Whereas the guy who played Georgie was the half of that married couple that just showed up in town.
He and his wife did not get a credit.

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We have no idea who these kids were.
Nope.
I couldn't find that out.
And he talks a lot.
They both do.
Yeah, she's blathering on about how she wants to get frisky and he just wants to look at ghost towns.
And then when they drive away, we see that they're just married.
And I don't predict good things for that marriage.
And I just, like I said at one point, you know, we may not understand these things.

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Like this plot is so stupid.
Their idea was so dumb.
They had to have known that only one of them was going to get out of their alive if even that.
They've always never watched a movie.
No, I mean treasure of this year, a moderate.
No, what always happens is they turn on each other.
They have nothing in common except.

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Why did Lake even need to get the other guys out?
That doesn't make sense to me.
They weren't helping him.
I guess they could have helped fight Bushman.
Maybe that's the point because he couldn't take out Bushman by himself.
He's kind of a little guy.
But if his goal was just to shoot him once he dug up the treasure, probably could have done that on his own.
For the sake of the movie, let's assume that Joe was the one with the most underground ties.

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And he was the one who set up the driver who gave in the gun.
That could be because they needed a gun to get this thing off the ground.
So let's just say that's a possibility.
Like we said, it's pre-Wallmart.
So you can't just go up to a store and buy a gun.
And not that I gave that any thought.
It's just occurred to me right now as we were discussing it.
I mean most movies just expect you to take the plot as it happens and not really consider.

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Is as feasible as as plausible.
But when we take four hours to watch one hour movie, we can't think of anything else.
I think it's out that this place is called Central City because you think a place called Central City would be more central to the area and not be a ghost town.
50 miles from everything.
Well, obviously somebody painted that sign in the prop department and hung it up.

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So it's not really a central city.
Well, Karen calls it Central City when she.
I know I know that's so it is.
But the movie called it that.
Yeah, it's a poor decision is what I'm saying.
Oh, yeah.
They could have called it Iverson or something.
Iverson Ranch.
It's hard to believe but a lot of movies were shot thereafter this including an Elvis movie.
I think it was her.

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I'm scared.
I thought it was odd toward the end when Karen just disappears, but she's safe.
Maybe she had to go to the bathroom.
I don't know.
They just did the scene and I guess they didn't call her in or she had already been dismissed from the shoot and they had one more scene to shoot.
Some they just acknowledge.
Oh, she's around here somewhere and she's fine.
And then she does show up at the end.

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I was kind of surprised to see her come back at the end.
I just thought that she'd be gone for the rest of the film.
I'm sure they shot that out of order and they obviously they had to add that scene with Tom and June.
I'm going to go back to the car squeaking every single car in this film including that truck that stops when the sheriff gets shot.
Yeah.
Initially I just noticed it on the fairly and I thought that they were just shooting sound live and the brakes were squeaking, but every single vehicle stops the same way.

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So they actually added all those squeaks and post.
That's a directorial choice for sure.
Like we won't know how car stops unless we hear that.
And I'll never know again.
Even when you're driving.
Unless my brakes squeak I'm going to still I'm still moving.
So there's a lot of silliness to this movie like the fight scene.
Like the fight scene.

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It's badly staged.
I think that Stern would put up at least a little bit more of a fight.
But Tom just karate chopped him.
Like it didn't even look like a real kung fu style karate chop.
Well, they cut away every time he hits.
So you don't actually see that.
You see him coming at him and then you see Stern falling on the ground going.
Ha!

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Well, there is a one scene where you see the hand come right at the camera.
And that gets him in the head I guess and that's what takes him out for good.
And that was really weirdly staged.
And he screams in that part too, which is just hilarious.
He's not that tough.
He's a big guy.
I don't think he's just terribly tall, but he's got some muscles on him.

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He's built.
Yeah, Tom is tall.
I was very tall.
And as he said, he was in the military.
So that counts for something.
But Tom is really dumb.
Why did he take his wife on this little jaunt?
I mean, we're talking about somebody who'd been in prison.
He doesn't really know very well.
And he's doing some kind of strange favor for.

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I think it was under the pressure that he was just going to buy him a meal
and be done with it.
Drop him off somewhere.
I don't think he knew what he was in for.
But at that point, when they're starting to drive into the mountains,
he should have thought twice and said, you know what?
Let's leave June at the diner and not take my new wife out,
especially with these two other guys in the car.

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At that point, he should have been like, no, this is not on the up and up.
There's two other guys.
They both look pretty unsavory.
There's no reason to put your wife in the car with these men.
Well, he probably hadn't noticed that Joe was carrying a gun yet.
It does notice this at that point.
It's still three, basically three strange men.
At least one of them.
At least one who has gotten out of prison, you know this.

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Right. At least one.
At least one's an ex-con.
So you have to assume that there's some sort of negative association
with the other two.
And you're driving off to God knows where no one can help you.
And he's a lawyer, so he should be more careful about these things.
Well, he's studying law.
I don't think he's passed the bar yet.
And I don't know that he ever will.

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He's holding that.
But they get away, basically, Scott free.
Aside from the fact that they're stranded in Central City, which is 50 miles from anywhere.
And they have to walk back.
Yeah, he did take a bullet to the shoulder.
Yeah, that's right.
So is he going to be okay?
That's a long way to go with the open wound.
I don't know.

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This movie just has a lot of plot holes.
And in a movie this short, it shouldn't have that many.
Yeah, I'm wondering how long it would take for the brake line being cut to affect the car
because Joe had no trouble stopping me to stop behind Stern.
Right.
It wasn't until he was bound those mountainous roads.
I don't know anything about cars, so I don't know if that would have been an issue or not.

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But I would think he would have crashed into Bushman's car instead of stopping.
Pretty bloodthirsty of Tom to do that to the car or two knowing that somebody was probably going to be killed.
At least there's a good chance that this would kill somebody.
But I guess at that point he didn't care.
He'd been stranded there all day.
No food, no water.
Yeah, he hadn't even been shot yet.
No, and then someone tried to assault his wife as anyone could have told him what happened.

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I don't know.
This movie requires Tom to be very dumb.
And that's always a bad sign in a movie.
And your hero has to be an idiot or the plot to work.
It's just not good.
I didn't really feel there was a hero in this movie.
Well, you didn't see me, but I was like in my mind, air quoting hero.
He's not a hero. He's an idiot.

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And he brings a lot of this on himself.
Why did they have the radio on when they were going to pick him up?
They could have heard about the jailbreak then.
I would have been a good thing to know.
Even when he finds out he can't believe it.
I do think he married up.
I think June has a better head on her shoulders than Tom does.
Yeah, I think if she had known what this whole thing was about to entail,
she would have just taken his keys away from them.
She's not very observant.

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She'd really didn't know what was going on.
She knew something was wrong because she has that women's intuition.
But from what she observed, she wasn't able to figure anything out.
Because Tom still had to explain things to her all the time.
Well, once she heard about the jailbreak, she said the information she could deduce it.
But she needed that information presented to her.
She couldn't tell it just by seeing it for herself.
No, because she kept telling Tom that this isn't right.

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Something's wrong.
That's the intuition.
Yeah.
But she didn't know anything about...
All she knew was she was supposed to do something with this guy's stepdad.
She didn't know anything about the other guys that were coming.
And at that point...
She didn't know it was the gun and Joe's back pocket.
Maybe she didn't want to look at his butt.
Well, Tom did.
Well, that's Tom's deal.
I don't know.

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I'm just explaining that even though there was much to amuse in this movie, there's...
As quality wise, you just can't granted anything.
You can't...
I can't approve of it quality wise.
It's weird how there's really not a lot of information about this movie.
I've never encountered such a wall of nothing when I did research before.

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I don't think it's that odd for a couple of reasons.
One, it was independently produced and a pickup by A.I.P.
And two, this movie is really difficult to find.
I don't believe it has ever had a home video release at all.
The copy that we found, somebody recorded off AMC way back in the day
and that's circulating if you know where to look.

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But you can't find this movie easily.
Is it on YouTube?
No.
Wow.
So it's nowhere.
It's somewhere.
You just have got to know where to look.
So probably most people who are listening to this have never seen this film.
One thing I did not mention is that the Showtime Rebel Highway series
who did 10 remakes, well, sort of remakes of A.I.P. movies, did one for jailbreakers.

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And they obviously didn't go by the plot. Most of them didn't.
But for some reason, they picked out this movie as one to emulate.
When they selected 10 movies to do.
So why they picked this movie?
I think it was probably just the title.
I'm sure it was just the title, which means that jailbreakers must still be owned by whoever owns all the arc-off films.

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Even though it's never had a whole video release, which I believe is with Lionsgate domestically right now.
I guess it was 30 titles or so that he kept from film ways.
He kept for himself and there was all this old stuff.
Oh, so that was one of the, you think that was one of the...
It must be.
Oh, okay.
And then Susan Hart got a handful of those and we've talked about those before.
So that's interesting that this one never saw at least a VHS release from RCA Columbia back when they were releasing all these films.

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I can see why, though.
I can see why they didn't, but it's interesting that this seems to be the only one that was never released.
Yeah.
They were releasing them at a higher price point.
They were like $2,999.
Oh, wow.
But like I was a teenage werewolf and teenage Frankenstein.
And those sold moderately well but not well enough.
So the rest they threw out like $9,99 price points on the extended play mode.

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That's when we got the amazing colossal man and Rock all night.
So I'm surprised that jailbreakers just wasn't included in that patch.
Right.
At least, I mean, it is double feature material.
It's short.
It heads out another short film to make it kind of worth your while to go see.
And this particular film was paired with My Must I Die, which we talked about a few weeks ago.

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And I think that would have been a great double feature because the first one is so dramatic.
And this one is just so over the top bizarre.
I think, but they're both dealing with crime.
So I think it would be a great double feature and crime not pay.
Why must I die was a.

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When Jiren was with road racers and by July, it had been paired with Why Must I Die in a lot of markets.
So it basically just depended on when and where you saw it.
Like I said, Circus of Horror also was a co-feature and Glyth and the dragon too.
That's a weird double feature.
That's a very strange double feature.
That doesn't track at all.
They must have just picked it for how long it is.

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We need a short movie to go after this long movie.
But if they hadn't done that, I wouldn't have that one review of the three I could find.
What's funny is doing jailbreakers as a search through a newspaper archive.
Means you get a lot of stories about people breaking out of jail, which apparently was a huge problem in 1960.
Because there were hundreds of articles about people busing out of prison.

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That's all you have the security that we do now.
And that's why this film was so timely.
Yep, ripped from today's headlines.
No doubt.
So, Cheryl, are you ready to rate the jailbreakers using our AIP scale where A is awesome,
I is intermediate and B is pathetic.
I can rate it.
I'm going to give it an I.
Just because, well, it's mediocre.

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I don't think it's terrible.
It's short.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to watch this.
There are highlights, the squeaky breaks, the silly fighting, the mellow drama.
There are a lot of low lights too.
It just wasn't thrilling.
It was too static.
Too much standing around talking.
So, I'm just going to put it square in the middle of our rating scale and give it an I.

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What do you think?
Well, the squeaking car was the first thing that I noticed.
And I thought, this is an interesting choice.
And then when that fight scene happened and Stern let out his high-pitched scream, the movie totally won me over.
I could see that when we were watching it.
Nothing else mattered after that point.
Well, you don't think this is a good movie though.

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I think this is an awesome movie.
It's not a great movie, but I think it's fun.
And you're right, it is static and it could be better.
It should be better.
But I did not mind that Tom and June spent most of their time sitting on a bench discussing how this kind of sucks that they are spending their Sunday in a ghost town with these guys running around waiting for somebody who may not show up.

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That they're going to kill.
They're definitely going to kill.
The big surprise I think is when Bushman actually did show up.
Briefly, yeah.
I thought this was a waiting for Giddo kind of situation.
I did too.
But I love this movie. I will watch this again and again. I'm going to give it an A.
I knew you were going to say that.
I just can't echo this sentiment.

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I'm sorry.
Well, this movie.
I had high hopes, but low expectations.
And I think it met my hopes and exceeded my expectations.
So I have to give it an A.
I can see where you're coming from.
I had no expectations and basically got no reward for them either.
Just the parts that you mentioned were silly and fun, but there's so few and far between

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in this otherwise pretty dreary movie.
I think the ending was pretty good too.
You should have mentioned that where he's playing with his money for some idiotic reason.
In a convertible, loose bills in a convertible as you're driving downhill.
The top was broken.
He couldn't do anything about that.
Well, you can leave the box of money shut till you get somewhere.

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You could do that and just seeing it sort of fluttering behind him.
And then he just kind of decides not to drive anymore and goes straight off a cliff.
And then of course the car crashes down.
That was a fit ending to the movie.
I do give it points for that, but still I can't up my grade any.
A grade a disagree.
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