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Name: Papillon
Released: 1973-12-16
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Anthony Zerbe, Don Gordon

Papillon

PG
2h 30m
1973

72%

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Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man," "Tootsie") and Steve McQueen ("The Getaway," "Bullitt") star in this superb but brutal prison film about two convicts on Devil's Island and one's determination to escape, despite the odds. One of the year's top box-office hits!

Director:

Franklin J. Schaffner

Producer:

Robert Dorfmann, Franklin J. Schaffner, Ted Richmond

Writer:

Dalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Anthony Zerbe, Don Gordon, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Vic Tayback

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Reviews

Observer (UK)

Russell Davies

[Papillon] offers the audience-ensuring presence of Steve McQueen in the title role. His Bullitt-head is unlikely to keep them swooning for two-and-a-half hours, however. Not these two-and-a-half hours, anyway.

I must say it left me depressed. The reason is, I think, the film's masochistic delight in pain, degradation and humiliation.

The film critiques a society, from French penal codes to the larger prison system, that openly endeavors to take away a man's resolve until he is nothing.

It is a tournament of brutality unrelieved by imagination.

February 10, 2022

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New York Magazine/Vulture

Judith Crist

It drags on for two-and-a-half hours... to show us that the talents of even Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen can be buried under endless restatement of the obvious and that the best of adventure stories can be attenuated into boredom.

August 8, 2022

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