No man is an island, but a movie about men escaping from a prison island is fun and sexy! Back in the day, Devil’s Island was nearly impossible to escape, and its story is being told in a remake of an ...

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman were at the height of their stardoms in 1973, and Franklin J. Schaffner’s original Papillon film that year was a prestige vehicle scaled for greatness — at ...

“Papillon,” a remake of the 1973 film about Devil’s Island inmate Henri “Papillon” Charrière, could be described as a prison drama, but it’s probably just as accurate to call the new movie a mystery.

As endurance tales go, Frenchman Henri Charrière’s is one of the most intense, a case of wrongful imprisonment that moves from the degradation of a notorious penal colony to the isolated awfulness of ...