Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
- prison
- airport
- drug smuggling
- escape
- court
- 1970s
- attempt to escape
- based on true story
- prison guard
- lawyer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Paul L. Smith — Hamidou
- Randy Quaid — Jimmy Booth
- Norbert Weisser — Erich
- John Hurt — Max
- Mike Kellin — Mr. Hayes
- Franco Diogene — Yesil
- Michael Ensign — Stanley Daniels
- Gigi Ballista — Chief Judge
- Kevork Malikyan — Prosecutor
- Peter Jeffrey — Ahmet
- Joe Zammit Cordina — Airport Customs Officer
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Oliver Stone
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,940 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Casablanca Filmworks
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
