The music video for AC/DC’s Jailbreak was filmed for the Australian musical program, Countdown.  This was in the years before MTV, when music videos were still a rare thing and there certainly weren’t any channels or streaming sites dedicated to showing them.  The video was filmed in Albion, a suburb of Melbourne.  Bon Scott, Phil Rudd, and Angus Young all played prisoners.  Malcolm Young and Mark Evans played the guards who, during the attempted jailbreak, shoot Bon Scott dead.

At the time, this video was controversial for its use of violent imagery.  It is considered to be the first music video to make use of fake blood and explosions.

The video’s director, Paul Drane, was also the director of Countdown.  In the United States, his best known work is a television special that he directed about Nostradamus which was re-edited and released theatrically as The Man Who Saw Tomorrow.

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