Papillon (1973)

Name: Papillon
Released: 1973
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

• Movies, Crime, Drama

• 151 min

7.8

The greatest adventure of escape!

Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Casting: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Vic Tayback, Mills Watson, Ron Soble, Barbara Morrison, Don Hanmer, E.J. André, Richard Angarola, Jack Denbo, Len Lesser, John Quade, Fred Sadoff, Allen Jaffe, Liam Dunn, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Dalton Trumbo, Richard Farnsworth, Peter Brocco
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1973-12-16
Status: Released

Tags: prison, escape, prison escape, jungle, solitary confinement, based on memoir or autobiography, remote island, leper colony, labor camp, corrupt official, french colonialism, devil's island, prison brutality, guyana, 1930s

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.