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Papillon
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.
1973 · Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner · 151 min · Crime · Drama · 15 frames
Tagline
The greatest adventure of escape!
Crew
- Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Dalton Trumbo
- Cinematography: Fred J. Koenekamp
- Edited by: Robert Swink
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Anthony Masters
- Produced by: Robert Dorfmann, Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast
- Steve McQueen as Henri "Papillon" Charriere
- Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega
- Victor Jory as Indian Chief
- Don Gordon as Julot
- Anthony Zerbe as Toussaint
- Robert Deman as Maturette
- Woodrow Parfrey as Clusiot
- Bill Mumy as Lariot
- George Coulouris as Dr. Chatal
- Ratna Assan as Zoraima
Production
- Country: United States of America, France
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Allied Artists Pictures, Solar Productions, Corona-General
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $53,267,000
- Themes: prison, escape, prison escape, jungle, solitary confinement, based on memoir or autobiography, remote island, leper colony, labor camp, corrupt official
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