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Turtles in Movies
 
Papillon (1973)
 
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Papillon Papillon  
Papillon (Steve McQueen) and Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman) are prisoners in a penal colony in French Guyana. Papillon escapes and loads a boat with provisions. He puts a wooden cage full of small sea turtles on the boat, presumably as a food source for the sea voyage. I've read that sea turtles actually were tortured this way, as were other animals of course. They were kept alive on ships until they were killed for food.