direct by John Hope Franklin J. Schaffner and star Steve McQueen, Dustin Malvina Hoffman, master Jory, this play is a life of the hard-bitten Charriere, a Frenchwoman wrongly imprison for life for a offense he did not commit and send to assorted hell-hole prison in Gallic Guiana. He salvage the life of fellow con Joe Louis Dega and together, they find to get away, despite the odds.