Movie Info: Papillon (1973)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Dalton Trumbo, Henri Charrière, Lorenzo Semple Jr., William Goldman

Producer: Producer: Robert Dorfmann, Franklin J. Schaffner
Executive_Producer: Ted Richmond

Genre: Biographical Film, Biography, Drama, Film Based On A Novel, Prison Film

In the 1930s Parisian underworld, Henri Charrière, known as 'Papillon' due to his butterfly tattoo, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he denies committing. He is sent to French Guiana's notorious penal colony, including the infamous Devil's Island. There, Papillon meets Louis Dega, a w...