Papillon

Titolo originale: Papillon
Regia: Franklin J. Schaffner |
Anno: 1973
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Crime Dramma
Tag: prison | escape | prison escape | jungle | solitary confinement | based on memoir or autobiography | remote island | leper colony | labor camp | corrupt official | french colonialism | devil's island | prison brutality | guyana | 1930s |
Cast: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson | Ron Soble | Barbara Morrison | Don Hanmer | E.J. André | Richard Angarola | Jack Denbo | Len Lesser | John Quade | Fred Sadoff | Allen Jaffe | Liam Dunn | Anne Byrne Hoffman | Dalton Trumbo | Richard Farnsworth | Peter Brocco |

Papillon è condannato per omicidio e recluso nel carcere dell'Isola del Diavolo, nella Guiana. Diventa amico di Dega, un falsario relegato con lui in una giungla paludosa. Qui le condizioni di vita sono così insostenibili, che Papillon tenta di fuggire, ma viene riacciuffato. Riesce a rimanere in vita solo grazie a Dega, e tenta di fuggire di nuovo, insieme all'amico e a un altro compagno. Papillon viene nuovamente catturato, in Venezuela. Riportato all'Isola del Diavolo, diventato un relitto umano, vi ritrova Dega in preda alla follia. Ma l'ansia di libertà è più forte.

Errori

When the guards start to open the alligator's belly and shout "Move it! What the hell you looking at [...] D
Julot almost stands by himself when he is helped down the donkey: he should have dropped to the grou [...] D
At around 18:00, you can see the shadow of camera or crew as the rail car passes. D
During the sailboat escape, the boat is seen sailing right to left against the setting sun, that is [...] D
When Papillon is in the natives' village, he goes swimming with one of the girls who has tan lines f [...] D
Dead Julot's eyelids visibly moving under the pouring rain (in the close up with his neck to the lef [...] D
Camera boom shadow is visible during the rain storm from around 42:00 as each person passes the came [...] D
When they are on the cliff top looking at the waves, Steve McQueen says the mainland is only 24 mile [...] D
(at around 1h 20 mins) The shaving cream pattern changes. D
In the last scene as Papillon jumps from the cliff after he throws the bag of coconuts, you can see [...] D
After the prison had closed down and Papillon was delivered to Devil's Island, a boat ramp area lead [...] D
When Papillon is in his first solitary confinement, a vampire bat bites him and drinks his blood. Th [...] D
All the French characters speak English instead of French. D
Unless he is a complete quack, the doctor does not know that a plain abdominal X-ray should be done [...] D
Papillon "faints" when going for a 6th step but he had been walking very small steps for weeks or mo [...] D
Just after Papillon jumps off the cliff, one can clearly discern at 2:25'42" the top of a head of a [...] D
After Papillon's second escape with Maturette an Degas, they arrive on an island and greeted by a sm [...] D
Newer prints, with improved resolution and brighter tone reveal that the leader of the leper colony' [...] D
It is highly implausible (and never explained) why the escaped trio would need to sail their boat al [...] D
The alligator the two are supposed to grab has its mouth tied shut. D
Unless he is a complete quack, the doctor does not know where to listen to a patient's heart and spe [...] D
As Dega is boarding the boat to French Guyana, his ear plugs are visible. D
The prisoners are shown given one small piece of bread and water for their daily portion. There is n [...] D
When the random prisoner has his head cut off, if you watch it slowly, you can see the blade come do [...] D
The guillotine permanently erected in the prison courtyard is a piece of pure Hollywood. By the 1870 [...] D
(at around 35 mins) The prisoner's uniforms are cleaner than they were just prior. D
Papillon walks through the abandoned Indian village, looking for its inhabitants, and finds a small [...] D
Unless he is a complete quack, the doctor does not know that a chest X-ray should be done with the h [...] D
Julot's lower abdomen is clearly not cut opened when he is helped down the donkey. In the next shot [...] D
When Papillon first visits the lepers, the leper he speaks to does not move his lips (probably becau [...] D
At the end of the film, when Papillon is floating on his bag of coconuts, a scuba diver is clearly v [...] D
At a scene in St. Laurent, there are mountains in the background, presumably on the Suriname side of [...] D
A harness is visible on Papillon's midsection as he helps Dega over the wall. D