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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.
9 July 1946, Germany
26 April 1922, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1941, Constantinople, Turkey
2 February 1942, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
24 June 1936, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
24 January 1954, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
2 June 1943, Turkey
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.
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.
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
May 13, 2005
harrowing and involving
July 19, 2009
A solid prison film that feels so real that if you heard a voiceover you'd swear it was a documentary.
August 15, 2011
It defined the hell of a Turkish prison whil portraying the humanity needed to survive such a terrible place.
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]
February 08, 2008
Director Alan Parker's right. His 1978 riveting prison drama still holds up.
October 19, 2004
Grim, nightmarish, unforgettabe prison tale
March 20, 2016
The prison scenes are nightmarish and unforgettable.
August 07, 2005
All modern-day jail flicks owe it a debt.
