Papillon

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Papillon, 1973.

Dave Karger introduces Papillon, 1973.

Ben Mankiewicz and guest Frank Darabont introduce Papillon, 1973.

En route to the penal colony in French Guyana ca. 1933, Steve McQueen (title character) introduces himself to wisecracking counterfeiter Dega (Dustin Hoffman), their first conversation, early in director Franklin Schaffner's international hit Papillon, 1973.

Arriving from France, Steve McQueen (title character) and Dega (Dustin Hoffman) get their first look at Devil's Island, with comments from returning inmate Julot (Don Gordon), who takes his own desperate steps, in Papillon, 1973, from the international best-selling memoir by Henri Charriere.

Detained after a failed escape from a mainland work crew, Steve McQueen (title character) is conducted to "solitary" at Devil's Island, William Smithers the warden making a speech, beginning a famous series of scenes in Franklin Schaffner's Papillon, 1973.

Steve McQueen (title character) and Dustin Hoffman (as "Dega") learning from veteran prisoner Clousiot (Woodrow Parfrey) about Richter (Don Hanmer) who buys butterflies caught by the prisoners at the penal colony in French Guyana, circa 1933, in Papillon, 1973.

Cameos in the opening, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo the barking officer, Anne Byrne, wife of co-star Dustin Hoffman seeing him off, as he departs with Steve McQueen (title character), director Franklin Schaffner using Hondarribia, Spain for 1930's Marseilles, in Papillon, 1973.

Steve McQueen plays Henri Charriere, one of the few prisoners to escape from Devil's Island in Papillon (1973) co-starring Dustin Hoffman.