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Genres:
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Biography /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Alan Parker
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Actors:
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Peter Jeffrey,
Michael Ensign,
Bo Hopkins,
Mike Kellin,
Paolo Bonacelli,
Paul L. Smith,
Irene Miracle,
Franco Diogene,
Kevork Malikyan,
Brad Davis,
Gigi Ballista,
Joe Zammit Cordina,
Randy Quaid,
Norbert Weisser,
John Hurt
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)122
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Plot Summary:
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Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT Represent tells the nerve-wracking story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in bridewell by Turkish authorities in support of trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the fatherland. Billy (Brad Davis), hardship owing to the harsh realities of the Turkish disciplinary scheme, sees a glimmer of hope when his father (Billy Kellin) arrives from the States with the intention of securing his son's release. But when that application fails and the dungeon's savage setting becomes too much to bear, Billy opts because the only possible solution: breaking dated of jail and riding the midnight express--remand home slang for escape--to freedom.
... Principal Alan Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING), aided not later than Oliver Stone's Oscar-taking script, fastens an unflinching fixed into the darkest recesses of medic and poignant cruelty. Supporting inclination members Randy Quaid, John Hurt, and Bo Hopkins give sidereal performances, and Giorgio Moroder supplies a denticulate yet entrancing soundtrack for a coat that is at one and the same however a Kafkaesque nightmare, a transfixing endanger, and a testament to the dogged human thirst allowing for regarding dignity.
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Midnight Express
Despite its dubious racist overtones, this is a powerful account of the experiences of Billy Hayes, unlucky enough to be caught smuggling hash in Turkey
Here's the granddaddy of every 'harrowing true story'. US tourist Billy Hayes (Davis) is caught trying to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. Big mistake. The authorities are under international pressure to crack down on the trade and he's sent down to serve time, to serve as an example.
The ensuing prison experience is enough to make you retch on those smack-packed condoms. Physical and mental torture abound as Hayes and fellow inmates Jimmy (Quaid), Max (Hurt) and Erich (Weisser) suffer humiliation at the hands of the terrible Turks and, in particular, the grotesquely evil Hamidou (Smith).
When his fat...
Must See Movie
More than 25 years on this movie has lost little of its raw power.
It's no wonder the Turkish authorities were in quite a lather about 'Midnight Express' because it was based on a true story and certainly did nothing for Turkey's tourist trade in the years that followed the movie's release.
Brad Davis (whatever happened to him?)is very convincing as the young American who suffers the brutalising experience of life in a Turkish jail, although I thought John Hurt just about stole the acting honours.
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