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• IMDb Code: 0077928
• Runtime: 121 min
• Gross: $35,000,000 (USA)
• Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins | See full cast and crew »
• Director: Alan Parker
• Soundtrack: The Chase
• Rate: 7.7/10 total 49,466 votes 
• Budget: $1,800,000 (estimated)
• Filming Date:
• Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama
• Original Music By: Giorgio Moroder   
• Release Date: 6 October 1978 (USA)
• Plot Keyword: Prison | Prisoner | Drugs | Student | Smuggling
• Filming Location: Fort St.Elmo, Valletta, Malta
• Sound Mix: Mono

Midnight Express (1978) Writing Credits By:

• Billy Hayes (book) (as William Hayes) and
• William Hoffer (book)
• Oliver Stone (screenplay)

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Midnight Express (1978) Known Trivia

• In 2004, screen-writer Oliver Stone apologized for the portrayal of Turkey, Turkish prisons and the Turkish people in the movie. 31 of 32 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The Turkish authorities still have a warrant out for the arrest for Billy Hayes who is technically a prison escapee. 17 of 17 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The scene in which Brad Davis' character bites out the tongue of a fellow inmate upset the crew so much that they all walked off the set, leaving Alan Parker to shoot it with his two actors. For the scene, Davis carried a pig's tongue around in his mouth. 22 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• In an attempt to really get into character, John Hurt stopped bathing for most of the 53-day schedule and reeked so badly in time, most of his colleagues avoided being close to him. 22 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• First movie to win an Oscar for "Best Original Score" featuring a totally synthesized music score. 20 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Although the movie is based on a true story, it has been indicated by Billy Hayes himself 20 years after its release, that what is presented in the movie is a very exaggerated version of what happened to him in the prison in Istanbul, Turkey. 24 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Banned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey, until 1992 when the private TV channel HBB broadcast it. 16 of 17 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Turkish government officials greatly resented the portrayal of their country in the movie, and made this known to the media in general after the film's release. 14 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The large group of Turkish police and soldiers at the Istanbul airport, which are on hand to search each passenger before they board the jet, was another attempt by the film makers to portray Turkey as an authoritarian police state. But in reality, this real-life event that Billy Hayes encountered of a thorough search of each passenger was a reaction to the PLO hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of four passenger jets in Europe just four weeks prior to the event portrayed at the beginning of the film (October 6, 1970). There are two somewhat oblique references to this event early in the film: a headline on the paper that Susan is reading on the bus that takes them to the plane ("Nixon Outraged at Palestinian Hijackers"), and again in the car after his arrest when Tex says "You decided to fly at a bad time... guerrillas all over the place, blowing' up planes... 4 planes in 4 days". 14 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The title "Midnight Express" is cell-block prison slang language for a jail break-out. 14 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |

Goofs: Anachronisms: The "fez" hat worn by several Turkish men in the movie has been extremely rare in Turkey since 1925 when it was abolished by Kemal Ataturk (the leader and founder of the Republic of Turkey) in an attempt to "westernize" the country.

Midnight Express (1978) Plot: The true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison. Full summary »  »

Midnight Express (1978) Story: On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich, and one of the senior prisoners having already ... Written byHuggo

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