The feature film based on HENRI CHARRIÈRE'S best-selling novel starring
Steve McQueen , Dustin Hoffman
Steve McQueen , in one of his finest screen roles, stars in the astonishing true-life story of Henri ' Papillon ' Charriere. Sentenced for a murder he did not commit to life imprisonment in the infamous French penal colonies, his passion is to escape. But the lethal jungle and many bleak years of hardship and brutality lie between him and freedom ...
Screenplay by DALTON TRUMBO and LORENZO SEMPLE JR
Produced by ROBERT DORFMANN and FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER
Directed by FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER
(First showing on British television)