BREAKOUT

Harris Wagner is suspicious that his grandson, Jay Wagner, is causing trouble for his nefarious business schemes, which also involve the CIA. Harris has CIA-operative Cable arrange a murder in Mexico for which Jay is framed. Harris does not want Jay killed, only silenced, so Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison.

Jay's wife Ann is unhappy at this turn of events and hires a Texas bush pilot in Brownsville, Texas, Nick Colton and his partner Hawk Hawkins, to fly into the prison and rescue her husband. The first attempts do not work, so Colton quickly learns how to pilot a helicopter.

While Hawk and accomplice Myrna feign a rape to distract the prison guards, Colton pilots a helicopter into the prison complex, Wagner boards the helicopter, and they escape. The group return to Texas in a four-passenger light aircraft. Alerted to the escape, Harris orders his agent Cable to Texas to intercept the group. Cable, driving a Citroën SM with Washington, D.C. license plates, locates Ann and follows her Chevrolet Impala convertible, knowing she will lead him to Jay Wagner.

Cable uses false identification to lure Jay Wagner away from the group when they land. Cable nearly succeeds in kidnapping Wagner, but Colton becomes suspicious and pursues them. The film ends with a runway incursion as Cable and Colton fight among departing airplanes at Brownsville Airport.

Colton successfully breaks Jay Wagner out of the Mexican prison by helicopter, and after a tense sequence at the Brownsville Airport, thwarts CIA agent Cable's attempt to recapture Jay.

The ending ties up the film’s central conflict with a literal runway confrontation between the rescuers and the shadowy forces trying to keep Jay imprisoned. By having Bronson’s Colton outmaneuver both corrupt officials and CIA operatives, the film underscores its faith in bold action, loyalty, and a bit of Texas cunning. It lands as a satisfying, crowd-pleasing caper where the underdogs beat the system through guts and improvisation.