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Papillon (1973)

★ 7.8 · 2,110 ratings on TMDB

The greatest adventure of escape!

Papillon poster★ 7.8

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.

DirectorFranklin J. Schaffner
CastAnthony Zerbe, Bill Mumy, Don Gordon, Dustin Hoffman, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

Papillon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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