The Making of Midnight Express: It’s a bit deceptive because this feature interviews Billy Hayes and his father. Director’s Commentary: It’s the same commentary that appeared on the film’s 30 th ...

Billy Hayes, author of the autobiographical book “Midnight Express,” on which the film directed by Alan Parker and written by Oliver Stone was based, disagreed with several of the assertions ...

Midnight Express (1978), produced by David Puttnam, won two Oscars and very quickly assumed cult status. What the filmmakers hadn’t anticipated was just how deeply they had offended the Turkish ...

Midnight Express is one of those rare films that doesn’t just get better but becomes more poignant and resonates louder with age. It’s possible that relations between the west and Middle East haven’t ...

Midnight Express is less a drama set in Turkey and more a horror film about prison. It might not have played that way in 1978, when it premiered and the ink from the story was still drying on ...