PAPILLON - BLU-1973-STEVE MCQUEEN-DIGIBOOK

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Adventure; Crime; Drama
• Plot: They called him Papillon, meaning 'butterfly.' If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape from Devil's Island.; ; Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures. After a decaded of find work in The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt, Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy role. Coming off The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega, Charriere's scruffy friend.
• Cast: Steve McQueen; Dustin Hoffman; Victor Jory; Don Gordon; 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; Peter Brocco; Richard Farnsworth; Billy M. Greene; Anne Byrne Hoffman; Fred Lerner; Harry Monty; Ellen Moss; Dalton Trumbo; Franklin J. Schaffner
• Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
• Runtime: 2:31
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie