A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Directed byFranklin J. Schaffner
Written byDalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Henri Charrière
CountryFrance, United States
Runtime151 min
On screen
Steve McQueen
Dustin Hoffman
Victor Jory