Billy Hayes and the Midnight Express

Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film  directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's  1977 memoir of the same name. The film centers on Hayes (played by Brad  Davis), a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for  trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.It's a heck of a story from a man with plenty to say. And he says most of it to Ed Opperman in this archive show.William  "Billy" Hayes is an American writer, actor, and film director. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign  jails serving drug charge sentences, following a drug-smuggling  crackdown by foreign governments.









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