12 Uhr nachts - Midnight Express

Originaltitel: Midnight Express

1978
18
2 Std. 1 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

90.020

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.331

125

Brad Davis in 12 Uhr nachts - Midnight Express (1978)

Theatrical Trailer from Columbia Tristar

trailer wiedergeben1:18

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Dark Comedy Prison Drama Biography Crime Drama Thriller

Der amerikanische College-Student Billy Hayes wird bei dem Versuch erwischt, Drogen aus der Türkei herauszuschmuggeln, und ins Gefängnis geworfen.Der amerikanische College-Student Billy Hayes wird bei dem Versuch erwischt, Drogen aus der Türkei herauszuschmuggeln, und ins Gefängnis geworfen.Der amerikanische College-Student Billy Hayes wird bei dem Versuch erwischt, Drogen aus der Türkei herauszuschmuggeln, und ins Gefängnis geworfen.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

90.020

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.331

125

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

2 Oscars gewonnen
- 17 Gewinne & 14 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Trailer 1:18

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Wissenswertes
Banned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey until 1992 when the private television channel HBB broadcast it.

Patzer
The 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.

Zitate
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.

Crazy Credits
The 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."

Alternative Versionen
Some 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.

Verbindungen
Edited into Running Man (1987)

Soundtracks
Istanbul 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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Amazing movie, but not covers truth.

Midnight Express is really impressing and depressing movie. It's really must be seen, it shows the importance of human rights to whom don't care about it. I wish writer of script hadn't used realnames like Turkey. Because, as a person who lives in Turkey, I'm sure that there's no such a torture methods and implemantation in Turkey. There are just writer's imaginations. Other than that, ppl should see this film.