Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Not as bad as I heard it was, but a real life story could be better if the director had avoided typical moviemaking pitfalls like the bad guys suddenly showing up behind them.