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.
- Récompensé par 2 Oscars
- 17 victoires et 14 nominations au total
Paul L. Smith
- Hamidou
- (as Paul Smith)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesBanned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey until 1992 when the private television channel HBB broadcast it.
- GaffesThe 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 fousThe 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 alternativesSome 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.
- ConnexionsEdited into Running Man (1987)
- Bandes originalesIstanbul 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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Wow. This was disturbing. I live in Nottingham, I have many Turkish friends who study here. If I didn't know them, I'd probably think that there wasn't a single Turk who is nice and pleasant... Some parts were actually funny. The judge (in Billy's hate monologue scene) was sounding exactly like Jabba the Hutt! I've heard people speak Turkish around me, so I knew the language which was supposed to be Turkish in the movie, wasn't. Come on people... Feels like this movie was made to make Turks look bad in every way possible. I've read an interview and I learnt that the real Billy Hayes was truly disappointed with the portrayal of Turkish people in the film. Anyway, this movie was fun to watch but would be ignorant to believe. Have a good one
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- How long is Midnight Express?Alimenté par Alexa
Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Ponoćni ekspres
- Lieux de tournage
- Fort St. Elmo, Valletta, Malte(as the Turkish prison)
- Sociétés de production
- Voir plus de crédits d'entreprise sur IMDbPro
Box-office
- Budget
- 2 300 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 35 000 000 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 35 000 000 $US
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