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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
- 1978-10-06
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 ...
- $35 million
- Giorgio Moroder
- $2.3 million
1. List of the best Turkish films about prison and prisoners, showing life and prison escape: Prison Break: The Final Break, The Crimean, Black Money Love, Karadayı, Kuzey Güney, My Brother 2, The Edge of Heaven, Cesur Ve Güzel, Hayat Şarkısı, Hadi İnşallah.
Jun 3, 2020 · by James Weeds. June 3rd, 2020. Columbia Pictures. The prison break movie, Midnight Express, is an exaggerated story based on the real-life arrest of an American tourist. While on vacation in ...
The prison warders are portrayed as sadistic, lazy and corrupt. The Turkish legal system likewise comes out of the film very badly. Even the warder's children are shown as being overweight and ...
- Geoffrey Macnab
The autobiography Midnight Express was written by Billy Hayes and published in 1977. The title is prison slang for an inmate's escape attempt. A year later in 1978, a film adaptation directed by Alan Parker and starring Brad Davis as Billy Hayes was released. It was the breakthrough project of Oliver Stone, whose screenplay won him his first of ...
Midnight Express has been perceived through the years as either a 70’s prison movie classic or as an overcooked melodrama of injustice. Pleeeassse, it's the former. The film, directed by Alan Parker and penned by first-time screenwriter Oliver Stone, caused quite a stir at its 1978 Cannes Film Festival premiere but divided critics.
