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Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes 's 1977 memoir of the same name. The film centers on Hayes (played by Brad Davis ), a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. The film's title is prison slang for his ...
Oct 27, 1978 · Midnight Express: Directed by Alan Parker. With Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli. Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Alan Parker
- 1978-10-27
A movie based on the true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student who was caught smuggling drugs in Turkey and sentenced to over thirty years in prison. The film depicts his harsh and brutal treatment, his attempts to escape, and his struggle to survive.
Midnight Express is a controversial movie, the main character is stuck in a cycle of mental and physical torture in what looks like one of the most horrible place in the world.
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- Alan Parker
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- Brad Davis
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Roger Ebert criticizes the film's indignation toward Turkey and its portrayal of Billy Hayes as a victim. He praises the prison scenes as a realistic and terrifying microcosm of human behavior.
In this harrowing true-life adventure, young American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is arrested in Turkey after he's caught smuggling hashish. Taken to a brutal T...
