Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 151 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, France
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- prison
- escape
- prison escape
- jungle
- solitary confinement
- based on memoir or autobiography
- remote island
- leper colony
- labor camp
- corrupt official
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve McQueen
Henri "Papillon" Charriere
Dustin Hoffman
Louis Dega
Victor Jory
Indian Chief
Don Gordon
Julot
- Anthony Zerbe — Toussaint
- Robert Deman — Maturette
- Woodrow Parfrey — Clusiot
- Bill Mumy — Lariot
- George Coulouris — Dr. Chatal
- Ratna Assan — Zoraima
- William Smithers — Warden Barrot
- Val Avery — Pascal
- Gregory Sierra — Antonio
- Vic Tayback — Sergeant
- Mills Watson — Guard
- Directed
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Written
- Lorenzo Semple Jr., Dalton Trumbo
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 2,176 ratings
- Studio
- Allied Artists Pictures, Solar Productions, Corona-General
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
