Papillon
Posted On: February 25, 2010
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
- Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
- Genre:Adventure / Biography / Drama
- Runtime:144 minutes
Cast
Steve McQueen : Henri ‘Papillon’ Charriere
Dustin Hoffman : Louis Dega
Victor Jory : Indian Chief
Don Gordon : Julot
Anthony Zerbe : Toussaint
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A man makes friends with a fellow in-mate while they are serving sentence on a notorious island prison and he plots his hellish escape.
The petty criminal known as Papillon is unjustly convicted of murder in the 1930s and sentenced to life imprisonment in a French penitentiary on Devil’s Island in French Guiana. He tries several escapes which result in many punishments but after a decade he eventually succeeds. Read more
