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Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton) directs this true story of Henri Charriere (better known as "Papillon" or "the butterfly"), a prisoner so determined to escape the notorious Devil's Island, he attempted it multiple times until he reached old age. Steve McQueen plays Charriere, and Dustin Hoffman is very good as the hero's anxious, defenseless friend. Based on Charriere's own memoir and uncompromisingly adapted by screenwriters Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun) and Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Three Days of the Condor), the film is tough going (it is set, after all, on Devil's Island) but not gratuitously violent. There
Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton) directs this true story of Henri Charriere (better known as "Papillon" or "the butterfly"), a prisoner so determined to escape the notorious Devil's Island, he attempted it multiple times until he reached old age. Steve McQueen plays Charriere, and Dustin Hoffman is very good as the hero's anxious, defenseless friend. Based on Charriere's own memoir and uncompromisingly adapted by screenwriters Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun) and Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Three Days of the Condor), the film is tough going (it is set, after all, on Devil's Island) but not gratuitously violent. There are sequences that stay with one for a long time, such as Papillon's brief stay at a leper colony and the long periods of starvation and solitary confinement he endures after each attempted flight. --Tom Keogh
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 16 September 1997
EAN: 9780790732015 UPC: 012569091535
Tags: Woodrow Parfrey (1), Anthony Zerbe (1), Forger (1), Region 0 (1), Victor Jory (1), George Coulouris (1), Val Avery (1), Allied Artists Pictures (1), Butterfly Tattoo (1), Devils Island (1), Don Gordon (1), Robert Deman (1), Solitary Confinement (1), Bill Mumy (1), William Smithers (1), Gregory Sierra (1), Vic Tayback (1), Mills Watson (1), Ron Soble (1)
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