Papillon
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Directed By: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419809507
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 1419809504
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-05-31
Running Time: 150
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973-12-16
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Summary: papillion
Comment: One of the best movies ever made. Based on true events, and Steve McQueen,
Dustin Hoffman made it great. Just wonderful. I have watched it 10 or mor times. Thank you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best movies EVER made.
Comment: If you like adventure movies, if you like movies that are excellently casted, if you like to root for the underdog... this movie is for you. In fact, if you are a living, breathing human being, this movie is for you. It is a wonderfully acted intriguing story... and is or should be in the ranks of must see movies like Casablanca or Seven Samurai. Do yourself a favor and at least rent this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: PAPILON
Comment: For any STEVE McQEEN FANS out there this will make a fine addtion to your STEVE McQUEEN DVD COLLECTION I wish they will come out with a speacal edtion of this movie like they did with COOL HAND LUKE.
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Summary: Indomitable spirit
Comment: "Papillon" is the apparently true story of Henri Charriere, the only person to successfully escape from Devil's Island off French Guiana. There is little argument that the real Henri was not a felon; he seems to have spent the majority of his formative years (and later) in and out of various prisons. The premise in "Papillon", however, is that he was sent away at that time for a crime that he did not commit. Regardless of the truth, the story is gripping and plausible, and well worth the time, though the movie is about a half-hour too long.
Papillon is portrayed by Steve McQueen, in arguably the best performance of his career, certainly the role with the most emotional depth. I have always been a fan of McQueen's; I truly believe he was cheated out of an Oscar here, as he becomes Henri Charriere completely, weathering abysmal prison conditions and surviving by sheer will. He befriends fellow convict Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman, another great performance), a first-rate forger transported for defrauding the French Government with fake bonds. He is known to be wealthy, and therefore a target for assassins within the prison system (the method of retaining funds is gruesome; a tube inserted into the rectum of the prisoner for safekeeping) so Louis approaches Papillon for protection. This arrangement develops over time into a friendship, sometimes tenuous, but it works throughout the movie, as the two convicts go through atrocious events together.
The film seems to span long years; at least two long solitary confinements for Papillon for escape attempts; and goes very in depth about the nature of the prison system, its priveledges and punishments, and the manner of survival in almost any situation you could dream up. The French Colonial prison system was a model of barbarism, and its remains can still be seen on various islands; it is something of an irony, however, that the islands purported to be inescapeable and therefore not guarded that closely (the sea was full of sharks which were considered to be enough of a deterrent to escape attempts)are now resorts. If you have enough cash now, you can sit on Dreyfus's Bench yourself.
This was a great movie; not perhaps to everyone's taste, but a harrowing film nonetheless, with wonderful performances by McQueen and Hoffman. There is also a great score by Jerry Goldsmith, which perfectly complements the action in the film.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: McQueen excellent
Comment: McQueen carries film beautifully. One of his finest performances.
The real story behind the story is that Henri Charriere, who wrote the novel the movie is based on, "borrowed" heavily from what other convicts' lived through, and one in particular--the real Papillon, who died in France a couple of years back.
Don't get me wrong, Charriere did his share of time on Devil's Island, it's just that not everything that takes place in the film actually happened to him.
Author Gerard de Villiers delves into it in a book entitled A BUTTERFLY PINNED.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: papillion
Comment: One of the best movies ever made. Based on true events, and Steve McQueen,
Dustin Hoffman made it great. Just wonderful. I have watched it 10 or mor times. Thank you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best movies EVER made.
Comment: If you like adventure movies, if you like movies that are excellently casted, if you like to root for the underdog... this movie is for you. In fact, if you are a living, breathing human being, this movie is for you. It is a wonderfully acted intriguing story... and is or should be in the ranks of must see movies like Casablanca or Seven Samurai. Do yourself a favor and at least rent this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: PAPILON
Comment: For any STEVE McQEEN FANS out there this will make a fine addtion to your STEVE McQUEEN DVD COLLECTION I wish they will come out with a speacal edtion of this movie like they did with COOL HAND LUKE.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Indomitable spirit
Comment: "Papillon" is the apparently true story of Henri Charriere, the only person to successfully escape from Devil's Island off French Guiana. There is little argument that the real Henri was not a felon; he seems to have spent the majority of his formative years (and later) in and out of various prisons. The premise in "Papillon", however, is that he was sent away at that time for a crime that he did not commit. Regardless of the truth, the story is gripping and plausible, and well worth the time, though the movie is about a half-hour too long.
Papillon is portrayed by Steve McQueen, in arguably the best performance of his career, certainly the role with the most emotional depth. I have always been a fan of McQueen's; I truly believe he was cheated out of an Oscar here, as he becomes Henri Charriere completely, weathering abysmal prison conditions and surviving by sheer will. He befriends fellow convict Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman, another great performance), a first-rate forger transported for defrauding the French Government with fake bonds. He is known to be wealthy, and therefore a target for assassins within the prison system (the method of retaining funds is gruesome; a tube inserted into the rectum of the prisoner for safekeeping) so Louis approaches Papillon for protection. This arrangement develops over time into a friendship, sometimes tenuous, but it works throughout the movie, as the two convicts go through atrocious events together.
The film seems to span long years; at least two long solitary confinements for Papillon for escape attempts; and goes very in depth about the nature of the prison system, its priveledges and punishments, and the manner of survival in almost any situation you could dream up. The French Colonial prison system was a model of barbarism, and its remains can still be seen on various islands; it is something of an irony, however, that the islands purported to be inescapeable and therefore not guarded that closely (the sea was full of sharks which were considered to be enough of a deterrent to escape attempts)are now resorts. If you have enough cash now, you can sit on Dreyfus's Bench yourself.
This was a great movie; not perhaps to everyone's taste, but a harrowing film nonetheless, with wonderful performances by McQueen and Hoffman. There is also a great score by Jerry Goldsmith, which perfectly complements the action in the film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: McQueen excellent
Comment: McQueen carries film beautifully. One of his finest performances.
The real story behind the story is that Henri Charriere, who wrote the novel the movie is based on, "borrowed" heavily from what other convicts' lived through, and one in particular--the real Papillon, who died in France a couple of years back.
Don't get me wrong, Charriere did his share of time on Devil's Island, it's just that not everything that takes place in the film actually happened to him.
Author Gerard de Villiers delves into it in a book entitled A BUTTERFLY PINNED.
They called him Papillon, meaning "butterfly." If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures. After a decade of fine work in The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt, Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy role. Coming off The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega, Charriere's scruffy friend. DVD Features:Other:Vintage Featurette: The Magnificent RebelTheatrical Trailer:
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