Midnight Express

1978
18
2h 1min

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7,5/10

90 k

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4 406

Theatrical Trailer from Columbia Tristar

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Dark Comedy Prison Drama Biography Crime Drama Thriller

Billy Hayes, un étudiant américain, est arrêté pour trafic de drogues en Turquie et jeté en prison.Billy Hayes, un étudiant américain, est arrêté pour trafic de drogues en Turquie et jeté en prison.Billy Hayes, un étudiant américain, est arrêté pour trafic de drogues en Turquie et jeté en prison.

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NOTE IMDb

7,5/10

90 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

4 406

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompensé par 2 Oscars
- 17 victoires et 14 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Banned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey until 1992 when the private television channel HBB broadcast it.

Gaffes
The Turkish spoken by the Turkish characters in the film is uniformly broken. The actors are obviously not Turkish; sometimes the language is so broken it is difficult for native speakers to understand what they are saying.

Citations
Max: The best thing to do is to get your ass out of here. Best way that you can.
Billy Hayes: Yeah, but how?
Max: Catch the midnight express.
Billy Hayes: But what's that?
Max: [laughs] Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for... escape. But it doesn't stop around here.

Crédits fous
The only opening titles are: Columbia Pictures presents a Casablanca FilmWorks production an Alan Parker film Midnight Express After this, the opening prologue text reads "The following is based on a true story. It began October 6, 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey."

Versions alternatives
Some of the VHS and Betamax copies included text before the end credits run that did not appear on the DVD and Blu-ray copies "On May 18,1978 the motion picture you have just seen was shown to an audience of world press at the Cannes Film Festival.... 43 days later the United States and Turkey entered into formal negotiations for the exchange of prisoners." This dialogue existed on HBO's showing of the movie back in 1985.

Connexions
Edited into Running Man (1987)

Bandes originales
Istanbul Blues
Vocals by David Castle
Written By Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes (as William Hayes)
Arranged and Lyrics by David Castle
Acoustic / Electric Guitars by Patrick McClure
Drums, Percussion by Jerry Summers
Strings by Fritz Sonnleitner and Sid Sharp
Bass by Rick Tierney
Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet by David Castle
Published by Rick's Music Inc./Gold Horizon Music Corp. (BMI)
(p) 1978 Casablanca Record and FilmWorks, Inc.
© 1978 Columbia Pictures

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7/10

Unfair Depiction of Turkey

This movie is pretty good, but speaking as an American who has lived in Turkey, this movie is a dramatization of a true story. While Turkey certainly has its problems with corruption, this movie is hardly something one should use to form an opinion on Turkey.