Papillon
The greatest adventure of escape!
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- Drama
- Crime
Overview
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.
Keywords
- prison
- prison escape
- escape
- 1930s
- based on memoir or autobiography
- jungle
- remote island
- solitary confinement
- corrupt official
- devil's island
- leper colony
- labor camp
- french colonialism
- prison brutality
- guyana
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 16, 1973
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Steve McQueen,Dustin Hoffman,Victor Jory,Don Gordon,Anthony Zerbe,Robert Deman,Woodrow Parfrey,Bill Mumy,George Coulouris,Ratna Assanand 20 more
- Director
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Cinematography
- Fred J. Koenekamp
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $53,267,000
- IMDb
- tt0070511