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Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen in the 1973 escape drama from director Franklin J. Schaffner

Last chance: Steve McQueen is ‘Papillon’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, historical, Last chance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/22/202105/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ten years after Steve McQueen made his name in the most famous prison break thriller of them all—The Great Escape—he stepped into the role of Henri ‘Papillon’ Charriere, the real-life French safecracker convicted of murder (unjustly, he maintained) and sentenced to the prison colony in French Guyana and, later, Devil’s Island. Directed by Franklin J. […]