Papillon PG
The greatest adventure of escape!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 31, 2005
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman | |
Performer: | Victor Jory, Anthony Zerbe, Don Gordon, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Vic Tayback, Ron Soble & John Quade | |
Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
Edited by | Robert Swink | |
Screenplay by | Dalton Trumbo & Lorenzo Semple Jr. | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Art Direction by | Jack Maxsted | |
Produced by | Robert Dorfmann & Franklin J. Schaffner | |
Director of Photography: | Fred J. Koenekamp | |
Executive Production by | Ted Richmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Classic prison-escape movie has intense peril, violence.
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Common Sense Media
The script is very good within its limitations, but there is insufficient identification with the main characters.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
The narrative is epic and life-spanning...The locations are stunning...and the surreal touches...add to the sense of a highly original art-movie spectacular.
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Times (UK)
A rousing drama of endurance, opportunism and friendship under fire.
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Denver Post
McQueen works hard and al most manages to triumph over his star presence, while Hoffman submerges himself eccentrically and amusingly in his coward's role.
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TIME Magazine
Papillon was not a complicated man but his experiences changed him almost beyond recognition, and McQueen does a good job of portraying the survivor, broken in body, but not in spirit.
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The Spectator
Papillon is too lifeless, too long and too late.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Description by OLDIES.com:
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 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 decade of fine 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.
Product Description:
One man sentenced to life in the French prison system refuses to give up trying to escape even when transferred to the prison colony on Devil's Island. Despite years of degradation and horror, the undying spirit of "Papillon" never dies. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Dramatic Score.