Movie Info: Midnight Express (1978)

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Billy Hayes, Oliver Stone, William Hoffer

Producer: Producer: Alan Marshall, David Puttnam
Executive Producer: Peter Guber

Genre: Biographical Film, Biography, Drama, Film Based On Book, Prison Film, Thriller

In October 1970, American college student Billy Hayes attempts to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of Turkey by strapping it to his body while trying to board a flight back home with his girlfriend. He is arrested and initially sentenced to over four years for possession, but the prison environment ...