Papillon (Blu-ray, DigiBook) PG
The greatest adventure of escape!
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Papillon (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2011
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman & Steve McQueen | |
| Performer: | Victor Jory, Anthony Zerbe, Don Gordon, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey & Bill Mumy | |
| Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| Edited by | Robert Swink | |
| Screenwriting by | Dalton Trumbo | |
| Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
| Art Direction by | Jack Maxsted | |
| Produced by | Robert Dorfmann & Franklin J. Schaffner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Papillon was not a complicated man but his experiences changed him almost beyond recognition, and McQueen does a good job of portraying the survivor, broken in body, but not in spirit.
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The Spectator
Rating: A+ --
This consummate prison-break epic features Steve McQueen's greatest transformation of character creation over the course of his estimable film career.
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ColeSmithey.com
McQueen works hard and al most manages to triumph over his star presence, while Hoffman submerges himself eccentrically and amusingly in his coward's role.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Classic prison-escape movie has intense peril, violence.
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Common Sense Media
The script is very good within its limitations, but there is insufficient identification with the main characters.
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Variety
With Schaffner unable to find the necessary perspective to prevent the film from becoming unevenly episodic, it ends up looking as if it were tacked together by at least three different directors.
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Time Out
Papillon is too lifeless, too long and too late.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
One man sentenced to life in the French prison system refuses to give up trying to escape even when transferred to the prison colony on Devil's Island. Despite years of degradation and horror, the undying spirit of "Papillon" never dies. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Dramatic Score.
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