Midnight express

Resource Information

The work Midnight express represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Midnight express

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures presents a Casablanca Filmworks production ; an Alan Parker film ; screenplay by Oliver Stone ; produced by Alan Marshall and David Puttnam ; directed by Alan Parker

Title variation

Express de minuit

Creator

• Midnight express (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Casablanca Filmworks
• Columbia Pictures
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Bonacelli, Paolo, 1939-
• Davis, Brad, 1949-1991
• Hayes, Billy
• Hopkins, Bo, 1942-
• Hurt, John, 1940-2017
• Jeffrey, Peter, 1929-1999
• Kellin, Mike, 1922-1983
• Marshall, Alan, 1938-
• Miracle, Irene
• Moroder, Giorgio
• Parker, Alan, 1944-
• Puttnam, David, 1941-
• Quaid, Randy, 1950-
• Seresin, Michael
• Smith, Paul, 1936-2012
• Stone, Oliver

Subject

• Escapes -- Drama
• Hayes, Billy -- Film adaptations
• Istanbul (Turkey)
• Prisons -- Drama
• Prisons -- Turkey -- Drama
• Smuggling -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Film adaptations

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

This film is based on a true story. William Hayes, a naive young American vacationing with his girlfriend in Istanbul, Turkey, tries to smuggle a couple of kilos of hash out of the country. He is caught, thrown into a Turkish prison, and subsequently raped, tortured, and forced into the brutality that defines the inmates' constant struggle for survival. There are other foreigners there, many for smuggling, and word is that the only way out of the jail is by dying, or taking "the midnight express." Max, his friend and fellow inmate swears, "That train doesn't run around here."

Awards note

Winner, 1978 Academy Awards for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Oliver Stone; and Best Music, Original Score: Giorgio Moroder.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Michael Seresin ; editor, Gerry Hambling ; music, Giorgio Moroder ; production designer, Geoffrey Kirkland

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R

Language note

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.M5365448 2008

PerformerNote

Brad Davis (Billy Hayes), Irene Miracle (Susan), Bo Hopkins (Tex), Paolo Bonacelli (Rifki), Paul Smith (Hamidou), Randy Quaid (Jimmy Booth), Norbert Weisser (Erich), John Hurt (Max), Mike Kellin (Mr. Hayes), Franco Diogene (Yesil), Micheal Ensign (Stanley Daniels), Gigi Ballista (Chief Judge), Kevork Malikyan (Prosecutor), Peter Jeffrey (Ahmet)

Runtime

121

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action