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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Vic Tayback, Don Gordon, Robert Deman, Val Avery, William Smithers, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Bill Mumy, Ratna Assan, Victor Jory, Gregory Sierra ...MORE

Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Vic Tayback, Don Gordon, Robert Deman, Val Avery, William Smithers, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Bill Mumy, Ratna Assan, Victor Jory, Gregory Sierra, George Coulouris, Woodrow Parfrey ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Adventure, Action, Action/Adventure, New Hollywood

Papillon is a 1973 drama/adventure film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière ("Papillon"), and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. Due to remote locations, the film was quite expensive for the time ($12 million), but readily earned more than twice that in the first year of public distribution. Henri Charriere befriends fellow convict, Louis Dega, while serving a sentence on Devil's Island (a hellish, notorious island prison). He plots his escape. The petty criminal... MORE

Papillon is a 1973 drama/adventure film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière ("Papillon"), and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. Due to remote locations, the film was quite expensive for the time ($12 million), but readily earned more than twice that in the first year of public distribution. Henri Charriere befriends fellow convict, Louis Dega, while serving a sentence on Devil's Island (a hellish, notorious island prison). He plots his escape. The petty criminal known as Papillon is unjustly convicted of murder (specifically, murdering a pimp) in the 1930s and sentenced to life imprisonment in a French penitentiary on Devil's Island in French Guiana. He attempts several escapes, which result in many punishments, but after more than a decade (at least seven years of which were spent in solitary confinement as punishment for his escape attempts), he eventually succeeds in escaping to freedom. Papillon was filmed at various locations in Spain and Jamaica, with the cave scenes filmed beneath what is now the Xtabi hotel on the cliffs of Negril. While the penal LESS