It doesn't get more macho than this

You can have your James Bonds, your Rambos, your Indiana Joneses. None can hold a candle to Steve McQueen as Papillon. He’s escaped from a French penal colony in the jungles of South America. He needs a boat. He's got to go to the local leper colony and ask nicely. Watch McQueen acting with his eyes—terror, desperation, defiance. From “Papillon” (1973), directed by Franklin Schaffner.