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Papillon
Directed By Franklin J. Schaffner
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Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman make an unlikely pair in this film adaptation of a French novel of the same name. McQueen plays the eponymous protagonist bent on escaping from jail. Papillon's misadventures are supposedly based on the ex-con author's experiences. Whether his claims are genuine or otherwise, his dogged determination to be free at all costs is remarkable. The landscape depicted throughout is wet, muggy and surely infested with mosquitoes. The escape sequences are brilliantly shot. The audience, already in cahoots with the principal characters' desires to be free, is made to sit through nail biting moments of taut drama and tension.