'Papillon' review: You can't keep their hearts in jail
The new film version of "Papillon," based on Henri Charriere's 1969 best-seller and its 1973 sequel, "Banco," is rather better than the previous screen adaptation starring Steve McQueen (mouth closed) and Dustin Hoffman (mouth agape). For some that'll be heresy. For others, it's a diffident Gallic shrug of a recommendation.
That earlier "Papillon," a big hit in the year (1973) of "The Sting," "The Exorcist" and "American Graffiti," holds a place of
