The Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks by Paul Simpson

Author:Paul Simpson [Simpson, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Constable & Robinson

Fact vs fiction

The Charles Bronson film Breakout plays fast and loose with the facts of the Kaplan case. It doesn’t pretend to be a biopic: its tagline was “Sentenced to 28 years in prison for a crime he never committed. Only two things can get him out – a lot of money and Charles Bronson!” Bronson plays a character who both plans and carries out the raid on the prison; he’s hired by the prisoner’s wife, rather than his sister, and considerably more difficulties are thrown in their way (including the prisoner’s cellmate being the real killer, rather than an accountant!). With a disturbing marital rape scene, it’s not particularly pleasant viewing – and they don’t even get the make of helicopter right.

Sources:

Time magazine, 30 August 1971: “MEXICO: Whirlaway”

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, 30 December 1963: “UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Evsey S. PETRUSHANSKY, a/k/a Peter Green, a fugitive from Justice of the United Mexican States, Relator-Appellant, v. Anthony R. Marasco, United States Marshal for the Southern District of NewYork, Respondent-Appellee.”

New York Times, 31 December 2007: “In Prison, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom”

US Department of State Telegram, 20 August 1971: “Resignation of Attorney General Sanchez Vargas”

Houston Chronicle, 8 September 1991: “A Smuggler’s Tale”

Asinof, Eliot, Warren Hinckle and William Turner: The 10-Second Jailbreak (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973)

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