Papillon
"The greatest adventure of escape!"
1973-12-16
7.8
en 151mCrimeDrama
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.
Executive Producer
Ted Richmond
Director of Photography
Fred J. Koenekamp
Editor
Robert Swink
Screenplay
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Screenplay
Dalton Trumbo
prison escape prison escape jungle solitary confinement based on memoir or autobiography remote island leper colony labor camp corrupt official french colonialism devil's island prison brutality guyana 1930s
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$53,267,000Budget
$12,000,000Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- Allied Artists Pictures
- Solar Productions
- Corona-General
