Film Review: MIDNIGHT RETURN: THE STORY OF BILLY HAYES AND TURKEY (USA 2015) ***

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Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey Poster
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The documentary, “Midnight Return” explores the enduring and emotional power of film as seen through the lens of the blockbuster success, “Midnight Express”.

 

An incredibly watchable movie because of is subject and also because it is derived from one of the most controversial films of all time, Alan Parker’s MIDNIGHT EXPRESS that was written by Oliver Stone.

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS is the slang for prison escape.  MIDNIGHT EXPRESS is the American extremely box-office successful prison drama that tells the real life prison escape of 23-year old American Billy Hayes from a Turkish prison in the 70’s.  Billy Hayes was jailed for smuggling a large amount of hashish across the Turkish border.  MIDNIGHT RETURN, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film…

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