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MAD #170, October 1974
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen), is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In 1933 France, he is "wrongly" convicted of murdering a pimp and is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), an infamous forger and embezzler who is convinced that his wife will secure his release. Papillon offers to protect Dega if he will fund the former's escape once they reach Guiana. Enduring the horrors of life in a jungle labor camp, the two eventually become friends.
One day, Papillon defends Dega from a sadistic guard and escapes into the jungle, but is captured and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement. In gratitude, Dega has extra food smuggled to Papillon. When the smuggling is discovered, the warden screens Papillon's cell in darkness for six months and halves his rations, believing that it will force him to reveal his benefactor. Half-insane and reduced to eating insects to survive, Papillon refuses to give up Dega's name. He is eventually released and sent to the infirmary in St-Laurent-du-Maroni to recover.
Papillon sees Dega again and asks him to arrange for another escape attempt. Dega helps him meet an inmate doctor, who offers to secure him a boat on the outside with the help of a man named Pascal. Fellow prisoner Clusiot (Woodrow Parfrey) and a gay orderly named André Maturette (Robert Deman) join the escape plot. During the escape, Clusiot is knocked unconscious by a guard; Dega is forced to subdue the guard and reluctantly joins Papillon and Maturette, climbing the walls to the outside. Dega fractures his ankle in the fall. The trio meet Pascal and they escape into the night. In the jungle the next day, Pascal delivers the prisoners to their boat, but after he leaves the convicts discover that it is fake.
They encounter a local trapper (John Quade) who has killed the bounty hunters that were waiting for them; he guides the three to a nearby leper colony, where they obtain supplies and a seaworthy boat.
The trio eventually land in Honduras and are accosted by a group of soldiers, who open fire and wound Maturette. He is captured along with Dega, while Papillon is forced to flee. Papillon evades the soldiers and lives for a long period with a native tribe; he awakens one morning to find them gone, leaving him with a small sack of pearls. Papillon pays a nun to take him to her convent where he asks the Mother Superior for refuge, but she instead turns him over to the authorities.
Papillon is brought back to French Guiana and sentenced to another five years of solitary confinement. He emerges a graying old man along with Maturette, whom he sees just before the latter dies. Papillon is then moved to the remote Devil's Island where he reunites with Dega, who has long given up all hope of being released. From a high cliff, Papillon observes a small cove where he discovers that the waves are powerful enough to carry a man out to sea and to the nearby mainland. Papillon urges Dega to join him in another escape, and the men make two floats out of bagged up coconuts. As they stand on the cliff side, Dega decides not to escape and begs Papillon not to either. Papillon embraces Dega a final time, and then leaps from the cliff. Grasping his float, he is successfully carried out to sea.
A narrator states that Papillon made it to freedom, and lived the rest of his life a free man, while the prison was eventually closed.
PAPION
Cracked #122, January 1975
a: John Severin
For some reason, Dustin Hoffman is drawn “funny” in the first half of this but not in the second part.
SAPILLON
Crazy #6, August 1974
w: Tony Isabella
a: Robert Graysmith
When it was a book, National Lampoon parodied it.
And if you understand Italian you can enjoy this parody Chris Ekman reminded me of.
GRIM PIX
MAD #115, December 1967
w:Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
Big three-hour blockbuster that seems to have fallen through the cracks of history about the various Formula One world racing championships in Europe, the fictional stories interspersed with real footage.
It begins with Pete Aron (James Garner), Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand) and Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) are all competing in Monaco.
Scott's wife Pat (Jessica Walter) is hung over in a hotel room while the race is going on, here she's pictured as a spectator.
There's an accident with Stoddard crashing off the road and Aron flying into the river.
A permanently injured Stoddard is in the hospital and Aron is blamed for the accident, though Aron had faulty brakes. In a scene they don't show in the parody, Pat has decided to separate from an unconscious Scott. Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre meets journalist Louise Frederickson (Eva Marie Saint) at an after party, and gives her a tour of the car museum where this is taking place. She is there to write about a fashion show but is unfamiliar with car racing.
We miss another party at a disco the night before the race, Louise covering her shoot where Pat is a model, and her husband Scott, paralyzed and going back to the UK, is oblivious to his wife leaving him.
At this next race, Pete Aron is a TV commentator and tries to interview businessman Izo Yamura (Toshiro Mifune), who turns him down but invites Pete to come to his garage later. [They've also taken parts out of Pete interviewing Pat, who denies there's any trouble in her marriage and they flirt off-camera.] Izo wants Pete to race for him.
Nino Barlini (Antonio Sabato) has a pretty big part as the young heartthrob racer, but his storyline is mostly ignored here, his girlfriend Lisa (Francoise Hardy) is ignored completely. Scott, not fully healed yet, returns and tells team manager Jeff Jordan (Jack Watson) that he wants to return to racing. At his family mansion are pictures of his older brother, who was also a driver and died while racing, which makes him even more determined to continue. Pat's relationship with Pete heats up. They don't use the part where Jean-Pierre tries to unionize and make racing safer for everyone.
Nino wins this next race, sparks fly between Jean-Pierre and Louise, Pat decides she's divorcing Scott, and the final Grand Prix race is coming up.
Scott Stoddard has won this race, overcome disability, and gotten back together with his wife. After the races are over, a lone Pat Aron is there at the empty tracks. This symbolizes how racing is his life, and he will live again next year. Forget it, Pete, it's Grand Prix-town.
I'd probably like this movie about the Formula One racing scene better, except I don't speak a word of Italian.
Actually, I'd probably be really disappointed. I've gone down an Italian comedy rabbit hole these past few months, mostly for the animated titles.
