Midnight Express (1978) - Winner of 2 Academy Awards incl. Best Screenplay, 1979 by Oliver Stone

This is one of the best movies I had ever seen. Dont Miss It. What would you do if you were him.?

Good

Thumps up, superb escape movie, some adult scenes are not importance in the movie they r aimlessly putted in the movie.....

Good movie. I have given three stars because of the quality of blue ray disc is just average. Suggest that you buy normal DVD for the movie which will be a value purchase. As regards to the movie, it reflects human emotions in a great manner. You won't be disappointed!

very good

An amazing movie!

Me parece una gran película y un excelente digibook

Bonjour, produit bien reçu.. bien cordialement à vous..

Four stars for screenplay writing, technical execution and acting:The well-written Oliver Stone screenplay vaulted him into his screenwriting and directing career. Likewise, the film vaulted Alan Parker who had directed commercials and several short films, into his feature film career. Brad Davis was also a first-timer in a major role and his performance was stellar, with a promising career wasted and cut short by uncontrolled drug abuse and contracting aids. Not surprising it was nominated for numerous Oscars, as the story they filmed was compelling. Unfortunately, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences does not often consider how a film represented to the public as a true story actually aligns with the real facts.One Star for Gross Inaccuracy:Granted, it wasn't a documentary, or even a docu-drama, but it was marketed as the story about William Hayes, his arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape. The problem is not "artistic license" liberties with minor details and conflation (e.g. combining characters or locations) to reduce scope and run time. The problem is the film doesn't much resemble what actually occurred other than Hayes being arrested for smuggling hashish at the airport, being tried for it, being convicted and sentenced for it, being re-sentenced to a longer prison term, and escaping to Greece some years later. Nearly everything else that fleshes out the story is a fabrication, gross exaggeration, or gross caricature. The Turkish criminal justice and prison system leaves much to be desired, and it does suffer from some corruption, but it's not nearly the kind of capricious judicial decision-making or the level of depraved, sadistic cruelty depicted in the movie. The real story isn't quite as compelling and has a tougher time garnering sympathy for the protagonist. Knowing the factual events of Hayes' arrest, trial and imprisonment, I don't have much sympathy for what he actually suffered in the Turkish prisons. He was 23 years old, knew what he was doing was a crime (and not a trivial one), and intuitively knew the punishment could be quite severe if he were caught and arrested in Turkey for smuggling roughly 2 kilos (4 pounds) of hashish. It's not drug kingpin quantity, but it's way beyond attempting to claim it was a "personal use" quantity. He cannot claim 18-19 year old naivety either. Nor was he coerced, cajoled or persuaded by someone else to mule the drugs for them. In short, all William Hayes' suffering was entirely self-inflicted by his own, conscious decisions. Although he had been re-sentenced from 4 years plus some months for possession to 30 years for smuggling, it's quite certain he would have been released within couple years after his escape. Nevertheless, Turkey was then and still is a country with harsh drug dealing and drug smuggling laws. Had the film been represented as a complete fiction, with fictional characters in a semi-fictional mid-east country, it would be much more acceptable. That wouldn't have marketed as well though.This movie should be viewed as a complete fiction. On that basis it holds up as a very good adventure thriller, albeit with a very flawed protagonist. It utterly fails as any resemblance to the true story about William Hayes.

Sp good. Overwhelmed story.

Based on a novel by the lead actor's character and most of it is true lol... "Joey, have ever been in a Turkish prison?"Well this is it folks in all its glory, and it is not pretty