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Midnight Express
A true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student, caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison. Billy's hopes is collapsed when the command parole is denied. An inmate suggestes Billy go by the night train to flee.
1 December 1918, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
29 September 1929, Hamrun, Malta
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
28 February 1937, Rome, Lazio, Italy
1941, Constantinople, Turkey
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
2 June 1943, Turkey
26 April 1922, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
18 April 1929, Bristol, England, UK
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
October 19, 2004
Grim, nightmarish, unforgettabe prison tale
March 26, 2009
Horrific scenes of prison brutality and powerful acting by Brad Davis as the American Billy Hayes help make up for the shortcomings in Alan Parker's sensationalistic tale and Oliver Stone's factual inaccuracies.
July 21, 2009
Strong stuff indeed...swells proportional sight and sound subjectively to convey Hayes' nightmarish experience but also hypes up a story that probably doesn't need the help. [Blu-ray]
May 13, 2005
harrowing and involving
October 05, 2005
Searing and unforgettable. A harrowing descent into a real-life hell that's so relentlessly intense it will leave you feeling drained.
February 08, 2008
Director Alan Parker's right. His 1978 riveting prison drama still holds up.
August 15, 2011
It defined the hell of a Turkish prison whil portraying the humanity needed to survive such a terrible place.
August 07, 2005
All modern-day jail flicks owe it a debt.
July 22, 2009
a brutal and brutalizing film whose effects have diminished little in the decades since its controversial theatrical release in the late 1970s
July 19, 2009
A solid prison film that feels so real that if you heard a voiceover you'd swear it was a documentary.
March 20, 2016
The prison scenes are nightmarish and unforgettable.
February 21, 2008
Despite the negative hullabaloo "Midnight Express" provoked for its brutal characterization of Turkish prison officials, director Alan Parker's rendering of Oliver Stone's exploitation screenplay is a stick of pure cinematic dynamite.