Midnight Express is a film carried out by Alan Parker in 1978.

Synopsis

William Beam, young American tourist, is on vacation with her girlfriend, Susan, in Turkey. Hoping to be done a little money, it tries to return to the the United States with two kilograms of Haschich distributed on him. Whereas it is about to get into the plane, it is like the other passengers subjected to an excavation of safety by police officers who find the Drogue. Then begin for Billy a nightmare leading it to the prison from Sağmalcılar, Istanbul. Lawsuit in lawsuit, it is found condemned for the example to thirty years of prison.

The “express train of Minuit” is the term employed by the prisoners Turkish to indicate the escape. But the “express train of midnight” does not stop in Sağmalcılar.

Quotation

max: The best thing to C is to get your ass out off young stag. Best way that you Can.
Billy Beam: Yeah, goal how?
max: Wrestling the midnight express train.
Billy Beam: Goal what' S that?
max: Well it' S not has train. It' S.A. prison Word for… escape. Goal it doesn' T stop around young stag.

Data sheet

• Title: Midnight Express train or the Express train of midnight

• original Title: Midnight Express train
• Realization: Alan Parker
• Scenario: Oliver Stone and William Hoffer according to the book of William Beam
• Music: Giorgio Moroder
• Film British
• Coming out date: September 1st 1978
• Format: colors - 1,85:1 (Rank Film Laboratories) - its monophonic - 35 mm
• Kind: drama
• Lasted: 121 minutes
• Interdict in France with less than 16 years

Distribution

• Brad Davis: Billy Beam
• Irene Miracle: Susan
• Bo Hopkins : Tex
• Paolo Bonacelli : Rifki
• Paul L. Smith: Hamidou
• Randy Quaid : Jimmy Booth
• Norbert Weisser: Erich
• John Hurt: Max
• Mike Kellin: Mr. Hayes
• Free Diogene: Yesil

Rewards

1979

• Academy Awards
• Oscar of the best original music with Giorgio Moroder
• Oscar of the best scenario with Oliver Stone
• BAFTA Awards
• BAFTA Award Film of the best direction with Alan Parker
• BAFTA Award Film of the best editor with Gerry Hambling
• BAFTA Award Film of the best supporting role with John Hurt
• Golden Globes
• Golden Globe of the best film category drama
• Golden Globe of the best first feminine role with Irene Miracle
• Golden Globe of the best first masculine role with Brad Davis
• Golden Globe of the best supporting role with John Hurt
• Golden Globe of the best original music with Giorgio Moroder
• Golden Globe of the best scenario with Oliver Stone

Anecdotes

• the history told in this film is based on the testimony of William Hayes, who took part as a consultant in the realization.
• Actually Bill Hayes wanted to make pass more than 2 kilos of drug, moreover it was a very large-scale consumer.
• the spoken language in film is not the Turkish but the Maltais.
• It does not have there only one actor or Turkish appear in the production of film, this one having been turned in its entirety with Malta.
• Of many errors, anachronisms and exaggerations mark out film, for example certain Turks carry fez it (red hat in the shape of truncated cone), whereas it is not carried any more to Turkey since the abolition of the symbolic systems cover-chiefs (Othoman) in 1923 by the Turkish republic.
• In December 2004, Oliver Stone presented public excuses to have produced a film if exaggerated. cf : “Stone sorry for Midnight Express train”, Helena Smith, December 16th, 2004, '' The Guardian ''.

See too

• Card IMDb
• Script of film by Oliver Stone