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Papillon

"The greatest adventure of escape!"

PG 1973 · 2h 31m · Drama, Crime
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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.

Theatrical
Dec 16, 1973
Box Office
$53.3M
Budget
$12.0M
Return
4.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 14, 1999
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Writers
Lorenzo Semple Jr., Dalton Trumbo
Producers
Ted Richmond, Robert Dorfmann, Franklin J. Schaffner
Music
Jerry Goldsmith
Studio
Allied Artists Pictures, Solar Productions, Corona-General
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The Greatest Adventure of Escape Filmed
Taglines After 5 years as an International Best Seller It Comes to the Screen Unquestionably The Greatest Adventure of Escape Ever Filmed
Welcome to the Prison Colony of French Guiana
Taglines Welcome, to the prison colony of French Guiana, whose prisoners you are and from which there is no escape.
The Importance of Escape
Taglines Escape is Everything!
Authority and Control in Prison Life
Quotes * Warden Barrot
[last lines, voiceover]

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