Midnight Express

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Having seen the inside of several Turkish "police-hotels" myself, I can confirm that they are substantially less than pleasant. The real Billy Hayes was arrested by Turkey in 1970, we're told, and imprisoned on a charge of trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.

Believing that he is to be released soon, Billy rebuffs Jimmy, who goes on to attempt an escape himself. With nearly two kilos of hashish blocks strapped to his torso, American college student Billy Hayes finds himself sentenced to four years for smuggling drugs.On vacation in Istanbul, Turkey on 6 October 1970, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2kg (4. The next morning, a small group of prisoners, Jimmy (Randy Quaid), a towering and hot-tempered American, and Erich, a kindly Swede, get him on his feet and walking (they tell him his feet will continue to swell and his recovery will be longer if he doesn't move around). David Denby of New York criticized Midnight Express as "merely anti-Turkish, and hardly a defense of prisoners' rights or a protest against prison conditions. He sees an opportunity and makes a run for it, only to get cornered and recaptured by the mysterious American. What was truly impressive though was the director and crew on production, since the Turkish Prison felt genuinely real.

Billy and Erich are conversing with him to get a lawyer and Max is in a haze telling Billy about the Turkish justice system and that all Turkish lawyers are crooked and that he just needs to escape the best way he knows how, catching the "Midnight Express", a train that doesn't stop at the prison. Billy, Jimmy, and Max try to escape through the catacombs below the prison, but their plans are revealed to the prison authorities by fellow-prisoner Rifki. Available with Kindle Unlimited, read as much as you want, on any device, choosing from over 1 million titles and thousands of audiobooks. She said that she couldn’t explain it, but she was absolutely certain that her daughter was among the group arrested.Giorgio Moroder's work "The Chase" is often used as bumper music on the American late-night radio talk show radio program Coast to Coast AM.