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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.
It is inspired [7] by the life of Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s and then, in order to avoid jail time, became an informant for the DEA. [8] The film was first released in Taiwan on August 18, 2017, and then in the United States on September 29, 2017.
Drugs commonly shown in such films include cocaine, heroin and other opioids, LSD, cannabis (see stoner film) and methamphetamine. There is extensive overlap with crime films, which sometimes treat drugs as plot devices to keep the action moving. The following is a partial list of drug films and the substances involved.
Filming occurred last February in Beaufort, Burton and St. Helena Island. It is based loosely on a drug ring that saw smugglers in the 1970s and 1980s deliver drugs picked up in Colombia and ...
The Mule is based on "The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule", a New York Times article about Leo Sharp, pictured here upon his arrest in 2011 at the age of 87. During 2014, DEA Special Agent Jeff Moore, who arrested 87-year-old Leo Sharp in 2011, was interviewed by The New York Times regarding the investigation of Sharp, the world's oldest ...
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, and Bill Pullman.It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling.
The plot follows a small-time pot dealer (Sudeikis) who convinces his neighbors to help him by pretending to be his family in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States. The film was released on August 7, 2013, by New Line Cinema through Warner Bros. Pictures .
Beaufort County is the backdrop of new film that is loosely based on the legendary drug smuggling exploits of the “gentlemen smugglers” who helped launch the career of a young U.S. attorney ...