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  2. Midnight Express (film) - Wikipedia

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    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. The film's title is prison slang for his ...

  3. The Midnight Express (film) - Wikipedia

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    As described in a review in a film magazine, [2] after a wild jazz party, railroad owner John Oakes (Nichols) disowns his son Jack (Haines) for being shiftless. Jack decides to rehabilitate himself and turns over a new leaf by quitting his palatial home and going to work in his father's railroad yard as a laborer in the roundhouse.

  4. Irene Miracle - Wikipedia

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    Her first film appearance was as a murder victim in Night Train Murders (1975), an Italian Last House on the Left-clone.Her most prestigious role was in Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978), a worldwide box office success.

  5. Billy Hayes (writer) - Wikipedia

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    William "Billy" Hayes (born April 3, 1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign jails serving ...

  6. Why Gladys Knight and the Pips' 'Midnight Train to Georgia ...

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    In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group's forlorn masterpiece, 'Midnight Train to Georgia.'

  7. The Midnight Meat Train - Wikipedia

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    The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 American horror film based on Clive Barker's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood. The film follows a photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the "Subway Butcher", and discovers more than he bargained for under the city ...

  8. List of American films of 1978 - Wikipedia

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    Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 6 Coma: United Artists: Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault, Tom Selleck, Joanna Kerns, Ed Harris, Philip Baker Hall

  9. Billy Crystal filmography - Wikipedia

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    Billy Crystal is an American actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, director and television host. The filmography of his work as follows. Crystal started his career in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally...