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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Papillon
1973
***
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

A pedestrian adaptation of Henri Charriere's exciting biographical bestseller about his life in prisons and his escape attempt from Devil's Island. The film has to compress years of imprisonment into minutes and the story of Papillon never really draws you in like it should.