It became one of the great adventure movies of the 1970s.

After having established itself as one of the great adventure books of all time, the

only problem with Papillon, the true life story of the prison breaks of Al-Ris Charier

at the infamous prison colony in French Guiana, turns out to be that there was probably

very little truth to any of it.

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For listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, on the trail of Papillon.

The 1973 movie, Papillon, told the story of a French petty criminal framed for murder

and condemned to a life sentence of hard labor in the infamous penal colony of French Guiana.

The movie was released, Hot on the Heels of its Source Material, the autobiographical

book of the same name by Al-Ris Charier, whose tattoo of a butterfly on his chest gave

his story its title.

Charier had lived the incredible tale of hardship, death, disappointment, and escape in that

prison colony, and eventually made his way back to civilization and to France.

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