Papillon
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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.
Released: 1973
Category: movie
Running time: 151 min
Language: English
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Filipe Man...
**A classic film with a remarkable story and great actors.**
This is a work that almost everyone remembers if the theme is films about the prison environment. It's a classic that takes us to a univ...
CinemaSerf
Steve McQueen is superb as unlucky safe-cracker Henri "Papillon" Charrière, an innocent man convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment in the French penal colony at French Guiana. Once there, h...
Wuchak
_**The living hell of a penal colony in equatorial South America during the 30s**_
Henri Charrière’s account of his experiences from 1933-1945 involving the penal colony of Cayenne in French Guiana...
adorablepa...
Although present for much of the filming, author Henri Charriere didn't live to see the release of PAPILLON (1973), which was based on his allegedly autobiographical novel. The veracity of what he rec...
John Chard
Grim and authentic telling of Henri "Papillon" Charrière's time at Devil's Island.
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet Of The Apes/Patton), Papillon is adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo...
John Chard
Grim and authentic telling of Henri "Papillon" Charrière's time at Devil's Island.
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet Of The Apes/Patton), Papillon is adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumb...
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