Thread: Name That Film!

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Originally Posted by Chevhead

Go to IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities - IMDb
Look up his name.
Done.
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Originally Posted by Crawler

...There is no trace of it, anywhere! I've tried lots of searches on lots of sites over lots of years. Craig is the lead, but this movie is not on ANY list of his work. ...

Been there. Done that.

It kinda sound a bit like Papillon (1973) but that one is with (a fantastic performance by) Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, no Daniel Craig.

You've described the movie "Papillon". It was made in the early Seventies and starred Steve McQueen (who you may have mistaken for Daniel Craig) and Dustin Hoffman
Papillon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wow. Thanks for that. As far as I can tell from the wiki link, that's the movie!!!

I figured it was older than a Daniel Craig movie, but my memory of faces isn't the best, I suppose. Now, to hunt it down & watch it again! And this time, not "edited for time and content".

Thanks again. About every year or so, I would have a week or two with "waves" of momentary insanity when this film would pop into my head, and I would desperately try to remember details and faces. Lol!

You should definitely watch it again. It is brilliant and one of my favorite movies. So much so that I gave it a very rare 10/10 on IMDb.

The film was OK but could not cover all the aspects of the true story of Henri Charriere and other French (not English) prisoners on Devil's Island. The book describes how the McQueen character escaped on several occasions including one spell of living with Indians and fathering a child. In the film, this episode is inaccurate in that he wakes one morning to find the tribe has moved on without him - in the book it's him that moves on having become bored with the Indian way of life.

Although it's over 30 years since I saw the film, I distinctly remember the closing scene involving the sea escape - you can clearly see a scuba diver dragging the raft with McQueen on top.

One other inaccuracy of the film - and without wishing to deride the attractions of south-American Indian females - in the film they are portrayed by females more similar to Tahitian or Hawaian - a considerable improvement and one that may have tempted Henri to stay in my opinion.

Yep Steve McQueen , in Papillion, tc

Performances by both McQueen and Hoffman in Papillon were STELLAR. Wish I had not lost the DVD.