If you loved Papillon, try The Great Escape

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Papillon

1973 · dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

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The Great Escape

1963 · dir. John Sturges

What they share

Theysit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Papillon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Great Escape is

Stalag Luft III, spring 1944, barbed wire. Allied prisoners tunnel, forge, and plot, driven by a single goal. John Sturges brings a clear-eyed sensibility to this war saga.

If you loved Papillon, try The Great Escape

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