TY - GEN AU - Franklin, J. Schaffner. AU - Steve McQueen AU - Dustin Hoffman AU - Victor Jory AU - Don Gordon AU - Anthony Zerbe AU - Robert Deman AU - Woodrow Parfrey AU - Bill Mumy AU - George Coulouris AU - Ratna Assan AU - William Smithers AU - Val Avery AU - Gregory Sierra AU - Vic Tayback AU - Mills Watson TI - Papillon AV - DVD 004455 PY - 1973/// CY - USA PB - Allied Artists Pictures KW - Adventure KW - Biography KW - Drama N1 - The greatest adventure of escape ever filmed! N2 - 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.; Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in 'Guiane' (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment UR - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070511 ER -