Ratna Assan in Papillon (1973)

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Ten years after starring in the greatest getaway film of them all, The Great Escape (1963), Steve McQueen sets out to top his own performance in the gripping escape-themed thriller Papillon (1973). The ruggedly handsome leading man stars as real-life convict Henri Charriere, a petty thief known as the Butterfly for his ability to fly the coop. Imprisoned on a French penal colony for a murder he didn’t commit, Charriere teams with fellow inmate Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman) in a desperate bid to kiss his cramped cell goodbye. Thankfully Charriere’s got plenty of motivation for rejoining the human race––a naked Ratna Assan is waiting patiently to give him a welcome-home shag.