Movie
1973
Papillon is a 1973 historical adventure drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film stars Steve McQueen as Charrière ("Papillon") and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. Because it was filmed at remote locations, the film was expensive for the time ($12 million), but it earned…
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The resonance of certain stories often hinges on the cultural and political climate of their time. In the early 1970s, a period marked by widespread disillusionment with institutional authority and a surging anti-establishment ethos, particularly among younger audiences, narratives about defiance against oppressive systems found fertile ground. *Papillon*, Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 period adventure epic, emerged…More
