this was filmed mostly in malta. they're talking two very different languages at the same time ,why?... because they said to themselves You tubers would know the diff.anyways.I think it an subtle insult,,not to mention they two very different cultures ;great movie ,true story too.ps it's portral of maltese pigs is not at all exaggerated ;) blue lagoon another movie filled there ,orca killer whale ;etc ..
For anyone interested, the entire movie "Midnight Express" is posted on YouTube. Also, this movie differed substantially from actual events. There is a posting on YouTube called "Banged Up Abroad" narrated by William Hayes that recreates the actual events. He escaped an island prison in a small row boat, then swam a river into Greece. Greece deported him to the US and there is a pic of him and his dad sitting in JFK airport.
one of the best movies ever made, with a Moroder soundtrack to top it off. It's portrayal of Turks may have been very harsh and prejudiced, but most great art is biased and subjective in many ways. It is portraying the Turks from Billy's point of view, not an objective observer. Of course one going thru this predicament would be biased and notice the flaws and negative attributes of any society. It is this very portrayal of Turkey and the Turks in a harsh light that makes this movies great.
the book tells the true story, like in the movie he kills the guard this never happened in real life, in real life the guard was killed outside of the prison by someone else.
Have seen the interview on discovery channel with billy hayes
This movie horrified me when I watched it as a kid.
But knowing that he was carrying over a kilo of pot, which isn't like a couple grams and is always a felony, any adult should know better than to carry it over a border. You would go to prison in Sweden. The only difference is that prison conditions would be better.
Now they ask more questions at the airport about your baggage. Who and when did you pack your baggage, were they always with you, did anyone put anything in them, and what happened from the time you packed them to the time you came to the airport? They check your passport 4 or 5 times. They seem to pick on Americans.
@jesscam333 I speak turkish and only one word seems to be the same...when he asked for Billy's backpack he said "canta", which is turkish for handbag or backpack.
Now when they are on the bus enters at 3:18, that guy is speaking turkish, but it sounds like a non-turk speaking it with an accent.
He says, "Beylar, Bayanlar, dikkat edin. Sizin emniyetininz icin ucaga girmeden once bir kontrol yapmamiz lazim. Sirlayin. Erkeler bir sir, bayanlar, cocuklar baska bir sira.:
That means: "Attention ladies and gentlemen. For your security we must perform a security check before boarding the plane. Please line up. Men get in one line, women and children in another line."
Damn officer! When I went to Turkey I was terrified when arriving at the immigration with this movie rolling in my mind. Despite of not having any drugs on me I was scared to death. Love Brad Davis, very talented and hot guy . R.I.P Brad.
i mean... i find myself watching more old movies than new ones and im only 21. accion movies from now sucks they only put a "good loocking" actor add a lot of FXs and thats it. war movies sucks too, horror movies ? hahah yes right... a 100% gore (and not the good one) and pure loud sounds and flashes.. yeah thats horror nowdays... comedy ? mmm nah nothing better than the old jim carrey movies or stoner movies from the 90's and 80's. western ? what happend to all those KICK ASS western movies ?
yesterday i say this movie on TCM and to be honest the guy act like an asshole i mean... he got all that drug and he act like HEY LOOK AT ME IM SO NERVOUS. you have to be flanders to act like that... i mean your heart will kick like a fucking double bass, adrenaline will run. but he just act like a stupid kid trying to hyde something to his mom. its really clear that hes gonna get caught. but this is a great movie anyways. what happens to movies today ?
I think the psychological fear experienced by this man when he was in prison was greater than the fear experienced by Jesus Christ. It is not the isolation that destroyed the man but the lack of humanity. I would prefer 10 years in humane prison than 1 day in such hell.
Disregarding its blatantly biased representation of Turks , one just cannot deny the sheer brilliance of this scene. The way the tension is sustained to the highest level , absolutely nail-biting.
@baruavice This movie can be enjoyed as a work of fiction. The problem starts when people take it real and worse when people throw ugly words to Turkish people. That is insane.
shit film , we have no ibne (gay) in turkish jail , all the film big lie !!!!!!!! NE MULTU TURKUM DIYENE !!!!!! sikktir git parker buyuk ibne yunan !!
@tkhushrenada i think its stupid that drugs are band in the first place geting drunk is just as bad as taking drugs and haxix isnt even a heavy drug i think ppl should keep smugeling drugs until they legalize it
@ONEFIVEOITONOVE - Yes.. They extended this guy's sentence to 30 years! Can you fucking imagine that? That was the real shocker- that's a lot longer than the sentence for MURDER in the U.S. and many other countries..
@marcusliciniusad uhhh carrying drugs? sinds when is it good ? This idiot carries drugs and when he is arrested oow fuck why and they did not treat me well lol. Serves him right
This movie is not trying to depict drugs in a good light. Yes it served him right to be punished. But his punishment ought to have been fairer and not a sentence life in prison for carrying light drugs. The movie is about the disproportionate punishment and the treatment of the prisoners. Prisoners are still humans with fundamental rights. Those should be protected.
The language the first policeman was speaking is Maltese. There were many Maltese actors taking part in this movie as it was filmed in Malta. And probably they used Maltese as a language since it is an obscure language spoken by a half million people only. Few would recognize it, and fewer would know that Malta exists and many would think Maltese is just a dog.
@YourTubeSpellChecker Yeah but you don't know the history of mr hayes.This capture was actually his 3rd smuggling where the first 2 times he got away with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! second time ,he hid it in a fake leg cast.He deseareved life!!!!
This is a powerful movie, even though some of the events are fictional. I also read Mr. Hayes' book, which is different in several places than the movie, but not quite as powerful! Did not know that Billy had tried smuggling before this. When did he try it the first and second times? Were those times in Turkey as well?
Man this guy was sweating like he just finished the marathon. You have to be cool if you want to do this, if you can't you go to a Turkish prison and get handled by Turks.
@Liverpoolallday Cant say that about the bold terrorist dirtbags that have been boldly attacking the U.S. The U.S. needs to stop sobbing and start kicking ass and take prisoners to be punished. I am a U.S. Marine in 1991 in Iraq and I kicked ass and now it looks like it needs to be done again.
Don't know if he really said "nation of pigs" in court. If he did, he was not punished for it. In the U.S. he could have gotten a life term only for saying that. He didn't encounter race gangs in prison looking to stab 3 white foreigners as he would have in the U.S. But most of all, he got a book and movie deal, something he would never have gotten had his experience been in the U.S. or they would have been gang stalked by the gov't. Look up GANG STALKING TV and MONARCH II (PT TWELVE) on YouTube
INTENSE! Too bad this actor, Brad Davis, had an intense a life too. He'd probably still be with us otherwise. It's all good, he's in a better place. This world is crazy.
Brother & sisters everthings have reason This is hapened long time ago ve live now every country heve they on sistem if you trying to ceahting there is a price ofcourse sad things happen Drugs is Bad hes not hero just somebody like you & me Turk are Great People but doesnt matter in my world I say Good people are Great people ,I believe this story changed so many life olso saved so many life ,Stay out of Drug God bless you all.
@aceiommi Saw that guy in an American teledrama. American accent. Amazing thing about actors, they really fool you. Thought he was Meditteranean cos of Midnight Express.
In response to HiCapacity's comment...NOTHING can save you from stupidity. And what Billy Hayes did was just that ...stupid; and he paid the price for it!
Oh crap.... they thought he had a bomb!!! EVEN STUPIDER.... why would you try to smuggle ANYTHING out during Heightened Terror Alert... hell, why would you try to smuggle anything out from the Middle East, as a passenger on a commercial flight, when you have a tendency to look SCARED TO DEATH going through customs???
Dang... how what was this kid thinking? Not to point out the obvious but my first guess about Drug Smuggling is.... 1) Don't look fricking nervous especially when you're going through customs.......Well, at least he made it out and hopefully he died a healthy, old age here in the states.
He well deserved say 10 years inside but the point of the film was that a life sentence was not merciful. Life choices are hard. The homo-erotic scene3 was disgusting and unnecessary. As usual John Hurt was superb.
At the 3:06 mark.It was nothing but a reality check.Opps I fucked up.All the cockiness and tit grabbing on a public transit just went out the window.Its now a little too late and theres no turning back.I`m an American citizen BUT i`m in Turkey and I have a shit load of drugs on me.I didn`t mean no harm and i`m leaving this country.So what just let me go.No your not going any where.I`m sorry.It doesn`t matter.Your not going anywhere.Your ours now.Ouch!!
@tkhushrenada, agree. Why would anyone be dumb enough to play Russian Roulette with their life anyway, especially in their 20s with their whole life ahead of them. Is it really worth the risk of spending the best part or even all of your life in a hell hole or the death penalty in some countries, for what?
@tkhushrenada It was only hash. And in 1970, it was ONLY hash. But with time and experience, we all know not to smuggle ANY kind of drug in the same way you don't stop and ask a 3 year old the time or directions. Just don't.
In light of the fact I think they'd have been much better off just growing the pot themslves and concerting it into hash. I mean hell even if you get caught you're not goin to jail for more than a year or w/e (even that is way too insane). Consider this, they recently found an old pot growing setup near a state ran college in New York. Imagine that!
Actually I've watched the Bill Hayes interviews and though I made the comment 2 months ago, I actually agree now it was harsh. The 30 year sentence was just obscene and by five years he'd rehabilitated and realised how stupid it was. His escape is technically self-parole
@tkhushrenada 1975 was the golden year for smuggling druggs and alcohol and most of the times it was really nothing to go to prison for . like 2 ks of hash was nothing at this time.
he is not the hero but he didnt deserve that kind of treatment .
@romas1995 Actually, the year is 1970: Billy was arrested then & Susan mentions that Janis Joplin had died the previous day, which would've made this day Oct 5 or 6, 1970.
@romas1995 Very much so! Just pointing out a minor error, nothing big. Looks like, according to the closing titles before the credits, that Billy escaped on 10/4/1975, almost 5 yrs to the day aft he was captured at the airport. Quite a coincidence. The movie is heavily fictionalized tho, Stone took a LOT of liberty w/the orig story.
@romas1995 And he didn't get the treatment pictured in here. There are exaggerations and fiction. For example, he was never raped. Although, prisons are tough places in many countries. I have watched his story in Banged up abroad at Nat. Geo. Actually, I listened to worse stories from other people who were thrown the prisons in other parts of the world due to smuggling drugs.
@tkhushrenada It´s not about the drugs, it´s about been an slave in a foreign prison and have a mega sentence just for politcal issues. You smuggle drugs, go to jail, but have to be treated like a person, not an animal. I don´t know if the turk jails at these time were like the movie represent. I saw it just like a movie, I don´t hate the turks. Seeing him escaping from that turk jail is liberating. He is returning to be a human, not a slave ;)
@tkhushrenada I don't know if he was portrayed as a hero. They did do a number on the fascist turksih Government however, they ran a police state for over a decade and they were allies of the U.S. Their commitment to human rights was appalling and the only reason they got away with it was because they vowed never to invade Palestine and take back what had been their for four hundred years.
First of all, the actors are not real turkish guys. And secondly, this movie was exaggerated according to the REAL Billy Hayes! He said that they had all that stuff in that movie just to sell it...
when I first saw the movie years ago, i was saying the same thing. But if you look at how they searched everyone else, didn't make a difference if he stood inline or not, they were searching the midsections of everyone. BTW, read the book, tells alot more detals, especially how he escaped, which didnt happen at all as the movie showed.
@RealPinkDreams....actually the soldier on the bus first asks "what are you doing" in Maltese and then he says something else in another language. The soldiers near the plane....are not Mltese. As for the plane itself, it made part of the Airmalta fleet....infact you can recognize the colours which Airmalta used to paint its planes with back then. They changed only the plane's tail, to mask the 8 pointed cross (symbol of Malta) which would have otherwise revealed the trick.
@RealPinkDreams at least three actors in this scene are Maltese. The two policemen searching his bag and the soldier searching on the bus.....they are speaking Maltese (my native tongue) not Turkish, Armenian or any other language. For the rest I don't what language is it.
@xxLimbo85xx this movie just shows how retard can people be by giving Turkey a bad nae and out job is to kill you fuckers you will see in the news and tv any anti Turkey people will fucking die and you be a man give ur adress i'll come there fucking kill you
this was filmed mostly in malta. they're talking two very different languages at the same time ,why?... because they said to themselves You tubers would know the diff.anyways.I think it an subtle insult,,not to mention they two very different cultures ;great movie ,true story too.ps it's portral of maltese pigs is not at all exaggerated ;) blue lagoon another movie filled there ,orca killer whale ;etc ..
sockratziified 1 day ago
This was appalling to Americans in the 1970's.Today it's mild compared to what the TSA puts us through at US airports.
waitew 6 days ago
For anyone interested, the entire movie "Midnight Express" is posted on YouTube. Also, this movie differed substantially from actual events. There is a posting on YouTube called "Banged Up Abroad" narrated by William Hayes that recreates the actual events. He escaped an island prison in a small row boat, then swam a river into Greece. Greece deported him to the US and there is a pic of him and his dad sitting in JFK airport.
clintonearlwalker 2 weeks ago
I think it's safe to say who Brad Pitt models himself on.
scatcat1994 3 weeks ago 2
one of the best movies ever made, with a Moroder soundtrack to top it off. It's portrayal of Turks may have been very harsh and prejudiced, but most great art is biased and subjective in many ways. It is portraying the Turks from Billy's point of view, not an objective observer. Of course one going thru this predicament would be biased and notice the flaws and negative attributes of any society. It is this very portrayal of Turkey and the Turks in a harsh light that makes this movies great.
erreur 1 month ago
Is It me, or Does this Guy looks Like The late "James Dean" Holy FUCK!!
freedomland11 1 month ago
I watched this movie 3 days before I went to Turkey on vacation. Holy Piss.
terminator363 1 month ago
the book tells the true story, like in the movie he kills the guard this never happened in real life, in real life the guard was killed outside of the prison by someone else.
Have seen the interview on discovery channel with billy hayes
Rastmannis 2 months ago
This movie horrified me when I watched it as a kid.
But knowing that he was carrying over a kilo of pot, which isn't like a couple grams and is always a felony, any adult should know better than to carry it over a border. You would go to prison in Sweden. The only difference is that prison conditions would be better.
charlesvan13 2 months ago
Now they ask more questions at the airport about your baggage. Who and when did you pack your baggage, were they always with you, did anyone put anything in them, and what happened from the time you packed them to the time you came to the airport? They check your passport 4 or 5 times. They seem to pick on Americans.
Tombstoneblues19 2 months ago
has turkey changed much since then?
blackrainb0w 3 months ago
Who else thinks he looks like Brad Pitt ?
clomatt 3 months ago
@clomatt More "John Cougar Mellencamp" .-)
fortheloveoftunes 2 months ago
Turkey was and is still ridiculous... just look at how they make anti-isreal propaganda in their media lol
Fr4nkWh1te 4 months ago
i dont think ive ever seen anyone sweat more...
eshak33 4 months ago
IT'S A FUCKING FRISBE YOU CUNT.
sparkyinbath 4 months ago
@sparkyinbath haha awesome
estanuk 4 months ago
damn.. i ddnt udnertstand even 1word...
byhayati 5 months ago
They are not speaking Turkish in this scene...they are speaking Maltese!
jesscam333 5 months ago
@jesscam333 I speak turkish and only one word seems to be the same...when he asked for Billy's backpack he said "canta", which is turkish for handbag or backpack.
Now when they are on the bus enters at 3:18, that guy is speaking turkish, but it sounds like a non-turk speaking it with an accent.
He says, "Beylar, Bayanlar, dikkat edin. Sizin emniyetininz icin ucaga girmeden once bir kontrol yapmamiz lazim. Sirlayin. Erkeler bir sir, bayanlar, cocuklar baska bir sira.:
LegalEagleX 5 months ago
That means: "Attention ladies and gentlemen. For your security we must perform a security check before boarding the plane. Please line up. Men get in one line, women and children in another line."
LegalEagleX 5 months ago
then the Turks hit him in the can over and over
billthestinker 5 months ago
Great movie.
lovethemick 6 months ago
Good lord, if there ever was anyone in the history of the world that deserved to get caught, it was this bozo. A master criminal you ain't, bro...
raydeen1 6 months ago 3
Nothing says "not suspicious" like a pair of aviators.
thrashmetalattack 6 months ago 4
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Damn officer! When I went to Turkey I was terrified when arriving at the immigration with this movie rolling in my mind. Despite of not having any drugs on me I was scared to death. Love Brad Davis, very talented and hot guy . R.I.P Brad.
TheSensualWorld1 6 months ago
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TheSensualWorld1 6 months ago
Nice movie.
1974kaplan 6 months ago
I think it's fair to say turks aren't that crazy like this film shows, but they are pretty messed up.
teameymelli1 6 months ago
This is a good film these are the way prisions are abroad in America they are Hotels
bluediver2 6 months ago
Fuckin propaganda
dimension1 6 months ago
I hate racism... So i hate this movie..
fatalrhyme15 6 months ago
i mean... i find myself watching more old movies than new ones and im only 21. accion movies from now sucks they only put a "good loocking" actor add a lot of FXs and thats it. war movies sucks too, horror movies ? hahah yes right... a 100% gore (and not the good one) and pure loud sounds and flashes.. yeah thats horror nowdays... comedy ? mmm nah nothing better than the old jim carrey movies or stoner movies from the 90's and 80's. western ? what happend to all those KICK ASS western movies ?
WhereThereDude 7 months ago
@WhereThereDude You really need to learn how to spell
FocusXz 7 months ago
@FocusXz i dont have the time sorry.
WhereThereDude 7 months ago
@WhereThereDude watch the movie Ted Bundy for a good horror flick. Truth is stranger than fiction...
Grizzly0679 7 months ago
yesterday i say this movie on TCM and to be honest the guy act like an asshole i mean... he got all that drug and he act like HEY LOOK AT ME IM SO NERVOUS. you have to be flanders to act like that... i mean your heart will kick like a fucking double bass, adrenaline will run. but he just act like a stupid kid trying to hyde something to his mom. its really clear that hes gonna get caught. but this is a great movie anyways. what happens to movies today ?
WhereThereDude 7 months ago
One of most under rated movies of all time! Randy Quaid was also brilliant.
shazam1963 8 months ago
I think the psychological fear experienced by this man when he was in prison was greater than the fear experienced by Jesus Christ. It is not the isolation that destroyed the man but the lack of humanity. I would prefer 10 years in humane prison than 1 day in such hell.
jeslatin 8 months ago
Wheres George Jung when you need him!
He would have breezed that shit!
hearts76100 8 months ago
This guy playing Bill Hayes looks like Peter Fonda in Easy Rider!
hearts76100 8 months ago
Disregarding its blatantly biased representation of Turks , one just cannot deny the sheer brilliance of this scene. The way the tension is sustained to the highest level , absolutely nail-biting.
baruavice 9 months ago 28
@baruavice HAD to be the Billy's excessive sweating that tipped the customs agent off. Wonder what it was in real life...
tommyt1971 8 months ago
@tommyt1971 his giant boner ! ..... nah im just kidding :P
baruavice 8 months ago 4
@tommyt1971 a giant boner ! ... nah im just kidding :P
baruavice 8 months ago
@baruavice It's not a biased representation of Turkish customs officers. Those guys do not fuck around.
Flowerblood 8 months ago
@baruavice This movie can be enjoyed as a work of fiction. The problem starts when people take it real and worse when people throw ugly words to Turkish people. That is insane.
kahraman 6 months ago
shit film , we have no ibne (gay) in turkish jail , all the film big lie !!!!!!!! NE MULTU TURKUM DIYENE !!!!!! sikktir git parker buyuk ibne yunan !!
13ahava 9 months ago
@13ahava there are gays in every prison, dont talk crap
davidhaythornthwaite 9 months ago
GREAT FILM. !! :))
lovethemick 9 months ago
there is something wrong if the officers are turk i coul not understand what they say
challenger486 9 months ago
@tkhushrenada i think its stupid that drugs are band in the first place geting drunk is just as bad as taking drugs and haxix isnt even a heavy drug i think ppl should keep smugeling drugs until they legalize it
ONEFIVEOITONOVE 9 months ago
@ONEFIVEOITONOVE - Yes.. They extended this guy's sentence to 30 years! Can you fucking imagine that? That was the real shocker- that's a lot longer than the sentence for MURDER in the U.S. and many other countries..
TwoPointsUp 6 months ago
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Everyone should watch this.
This is how NOT to smuggle anything through customs.
nvmarcus 9 months ago
this is a very nice film, very realistic. things are like this in turkey. if one day those guys join the eu we are gonna be like this...
parisfr12 9 months ago
Fucker deserved this
SellosMusic 10 months ago
@SellosMusic Why is that?
marcusliciniusad 10 months ago
@marcusliciniusad uhhh carrying drugs? sinds when is it good ? This idiot carries drugs and when he is arrested oow fuck why and they did not treat me well lol. Serves him right
SellosMusic 10 months ago
@SellosMusic
This movie is not trying to depict drugs in a good light. Yes it served him right to be punished. But his punishment ought to have been fairer and not a sentence life in prison for carrying light drugs. The movie is about the disproportionate punishment and the treatment of the prisoners. Prisoners are still humans with fundamental rights. Those should be protected.
IanaGyln 10 months ago
My hands are tied by Ankara!
PlanTonto 11 months ago
amazing movie
suazo2929 11 months ago
im pretty sure Turks can see what the fuck is a frisbee... this movie is racist no matter what the facts are
TheAbsoluTurk 11 months ago 3
@TheAbsoluTurk you sound like a right dick-head
davidhaythornthwaite 11 months ago
@davidhaythornthwaite yeah because im right.
TheAbsoluTurk 11 months ago
@TheAbsoluTurk NO!, its because your still a dick-head....lol
davidhaythornthwaite 11 months ago
@davidhaythornthwaite yeah because you're opinion is wrong and mine is right. well i have no opinion, just facts.
TheAbsoluTurk 11 months ago
@davidhaythornthwaite and you sounds like a small crackn bitch you fucking pussy!!
TheBeowolf88 6 months ago
@TheBeowolf88 lol, getting to you is it, grow up, u are-wipe
davidhaythornthwaite 6 months ago
The language the first policeman was speaking is Maltese. There were many Maltese actors taking part in this movie as it was filmed in Malta. And probably they used Maltese as a language since it is an obscure language spoken by a half million people only. Few would recognize it, and fewer would know that Malta exists and many would think Maltese is just a dog.
IanaGyln 11 months ago
@IanaGyln But we still exist !
mariboccful 10 months ago
@mariboccful
I know I know I'm Maltese. Tkellimt hekk ghax kont qed nindirizza lill-barranin.
IanaGyln 10 months ago
Great soundtrack. All I have to say
drizzleinc 1 year ago
they are not turkish. they have an accent.and not turkey. bad production.this movie was hundle over
dikdatoraa 1 year ago
its true that beta not to fuck with turkish police. Maybe cia kgb can not catch u even mossad BUT when it comes to turks. they dont miss it
huseyinarkin 1 year ago
If you are in turkish prison you will wish the hell is nothing more :D
they truly fucking the shit out of you
YAVSI YAVSI AMINIZI SIKECEGIZ !!!!
CaptainBaseball 1 year ago
He's pissing in his pant :/
rzxw 1 year ago
Come on guys he was only smuggling hash, not heroin or coke.
YourTubeSpellChecker 1 year ago
@YourTubeSpellChecker
for your info in turkey hash is stronly illigal
okan931 1 year ago
@okan931 Yeah well it should be legal.
YourTubeSpellChecker 1 year ago
@YourTubeSpellChecker Yeah but you don't know the history of mr hayes.This capture was actually his 3rd smuggling where the first 2 times he got away with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! second time ,he hid it in a fake leg cast.He deseareved life!!!!
fadethetrade 1 year ago
@fadethetrade No he doesn't. He was just supplying people with what they wanted.
YourTubeSpellChecker 1 year ago
@fadethetrade
This is a powerful movie, even though some of the events are fictional. I also read Mr. Hayes' book, which is different in several places than the movie, but not quite as powerful! Did not know that Billy had tried smuggling before this. When did he try it the first and second times? Were those times in Turkey as well?
JackPlatt 6 months ago
Man this guy was sweating like he just finished the marathon. You have to be cool if you want to do this, if you can't you go to a Turkish prison and get handled by Turks.
Kryptsanies 1 year ago
dont fuck with americans.
Liverpoolallday 1 year ago
@Liverpoolallday dont fuck with the Turks :)
mmakid1980 1 year ago
@Liverpoolallday Cant say that about the bold terrorist dirtbags that have been boldly attacking the U.S. The U.S. needs to stop sobbing and start kicking ass and take prisoners to be punished. I am a U.S. Marine in 1991 in Iraq and I kicked ass and now it looks like it needs to be done again.
ELPerroBuddy63 1 year ago
"You must pay a FINE ... of TWO American dollars!"
siukong 1 year ago 2
Don't know if he really said "nation of pigs" in court. If he did, he was not punished for it. In the U.S. he could have gotten a life term only for saying that. He didn't encounter race gangs in prison looking to stab 3 white foreigners as he would have in the U.S. But most of all, he got a book and movie deal, something he would never have gotten had his experience been in the U.S. or they would have been gang stalked by the gov't. Look up GANG STALKING TV and MONARCH II (PT TWELVE) on YouTube
1975Aspen 1 year ago
PLEASE WATCH MY REMIX OF THE THEME OF THE MOVIE THE CHASE, A CLASSIC OF ELECTRO MUSIC
julioclau 1 year ago
Perhaps the MOST tense moment in a film!!!!Brilliant work!
lazerbeak2125 1 year ago
@lazerbeak2125 brilliant story as well. Just hear the real billy hayes tell the story. AMAZING STUFF
reset515 1 year ago
turks are bastard
85devotee 1 year ago
this film made me believe that turks were a horrid people, when in reality they are the nicest people i have met.
mannzymunster 1 year ago
Dang...if only the U.S was this hard on terrorists and all the stuff we allow through our borders!
macksfischer 1 year ago
The entire movie was filmed in Malta, not in Turkey.
Cengiz78x 1 year ago
INTENSE! Too bad this actor, Brad Davis, had an intense a life too. He'd probably still be with us otherwise. It's all good, he's in a better place. This world is crazy.
HeidiIvy 1 year ago
Such a great film
j1o2y3c4e 1 year ago
Watch the show Banged up Abroad. Its a lot better depiction and Hayes commentates himself.
TomPatCat 1 year ago
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A racist movie which should be banned.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
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wreyoG 1 year ago
Brother & sisters everthings have reason This is hapened long time ago ve live now every country heve they on sistem if you trying to ceahting there is a price ofcourse sad things happen Drugs is Bad hes not hero just somebody like you & me Turk are Great People but doesnt matter in my world I say Good people are Great people ,I believe this story changed so many life olso saved so many life ,Stay out of Drug God bless you all.
TURK4TURK 1 year ago
A great movie !!!
nurhabibi46 1 year ago
I hate it when people fill sinks with water and wash their face, espeically in a public bathroom. That's so damn nasty. Ughh!
KiloByte69 1 year ago
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this movie rocks, I love to hate the prison warden what an a-hole....great actor though
aceiommi 1 year ago
this movie rocks, I love to hate the prison warden what an a-hole....great actor though
aceiommi 1 year ago
@aceiommi Saw that guy in an American teledrama. American accent. Amazing thing about actors, they really fool you. Thought he was Meditteranean cos of Midnight Express.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
HiCapacity YOUR ALL FAMILY ARE SCUM?YOU STUPIT AMERICAN BASTARD.
1974kaplan 1 year ago
In response to HiCapacity's comment...NOTHING can save you from stupidity. And what Billy Hayes did was just that ...stupid; and he paid the price for it!
Biagio913 1 year ago
Oh crap.... they thought he had a bomb!!! EVEN STUPIDER.... why would you try to smuggle ANYTHING out during Heightened Terror Alert... hell, why would you try to smuggle anything out from the Middle East, as a passenger on a commercial flight, when you have a tendency to look SCARED TO DEATH going through customs???
MEATYOKERRable 1 year ago
Dang... how what was this kid thinking? Not to point out the obvious but my first guess about Drug Smuggling is.... 1) Don't look fricking nervous especially when you're going through customs.......Well, at least he made it out and hopefully he died a healthy, old age here in the states.
MEATYOKERRable 1 year ago
Il l a cherché !
Arianejea 1 year ago
He well deserved say 10 years inside but the point of the film was that a life sentence was not merciful. Life choices are hard. The homo-erotic scene3 was disgusting and unnecessary. As usual John Hurt was superb.
pix042 1 year ago
looks like kurt russel
mft760 1 year ago
in the real life Billy has not girlfriend
rizzotin 1 year ago
he was lucky , lucky he crossed the greek border after the fall of Hunta .
romas1995 1 year ago
At the 3:06 mark.It was nothing but a reality check.Opps I fucked up.All the cockiness and tit grabbing on a public transit just went out the window.Its now a little too late and theres no turning back.I`m an American citizen BUT i`m in Turkey and I have a shit load of drugs on me.I didn`t mean no harm and i`m leaving this country.So what just let me go.No your not going any where.I`m sorry.It doesn`t matter.Your not going anywhere.Your ours now.Ouch!!
openedup09 1 year ago
great scene
sunburst47 1 year ago
holiday in cambodia
blade0954 1 year ago
Turkish, Fuck you !!! William « Billy » Hayes is a Heroes
307Tradis 1 year ago
well where did that find that guys?
they cannot even speak turkish fluently:)))
arvedui1 1 year ago
@arvedui1 I don't know where it is kind of sad they can't find people to speak fluent Turkish.
strangerinwhite 1 year ago
@strangerinwhitefilmed entirely in malta ,small parts in pinewood studios ,london
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
@arvedui1 malta
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
I acted the exact same when I was using my sisters customer card in the makro wholesale place.
Kcon83 1 year ago
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Turks are scum. That is why the greeks saved him in real life.
HiCapacity 1 year ago 9
@HiCapacity bitter?
hardmofo 1 year ago
Instantly recognised that sink as being manufactured in Barrhead, Renfrewshire?
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
I dont get how people view him as the hero of this movie. Don't fucking smuggle drugs
tkhushrenada 1 year ago 10
@tkhushrenada, agree. Why would anyone be dumb enough to play Russian Roulette with their life anyway, especially in their 20s with their whole life ahead of them. Is it really worth the risk of spending the best part or even all of your life in a hell hole or the death penalty in some countries, for what?
jtking2504 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada Me niether he got what he desire IMHO.
strangerinwhite 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada you don't understand nothing!!
terzapersonasingolar 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada He didn't derserve a life sentence.
1caninelover 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada It was only hash. And in 1970, it was ONLY hash. But with time and experience, we all know not to smuggle ANY kind of drug in the same way you don't stop and ask a 3 year old the time or directions. Just don't.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
@Noodles37UK
In light of the fact I think they'd have been much better off just growing the pot themslves and concerting it into hash. I mean hell even if you get caught you're not goin to jail for more than a year or w/e (even that is way too insane). Consider this, they recently found an old pot growing setup near a state ran college in New York. Imagine that!
KiloByte69 1 year ago
@Noodles37UK
Actually I've watched the Bill Hayes interviews and though I made the comment 2 months ago, I actually agree now it was harsh. The 30 year sentence was just obscene and by five years he'd rehabilitated and realised how stupid it was. His escape is technically self-parole
tkhushrenada 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada 1975 was the golden year for smuggling druggs and alcohol and most of the times it was really nothing to go to prison for . like 2 ks of hash was nothing at this time.
he is not the hero but he didnt deserve that kind of treatment .
only a pedophile deserves such punishment.
romas1995 1 year ago 23
@romas1995 you know ur right im turkish and i agree that he didn't deseve what he got he should have smuggled it out of a differnt country
sharingenunleashed 1 year ago
@romas1995 Actually, the year is 1970: Billy was arrested then & Susan mentions that Janis Joplin had died the previous day, which would've made this day Oct 5 or 6, 1970.
tommyt1971 8 months ago
@tommyt1971 my bad. my point is still valid though.
romas1995 8 months ago
@romas1995 Very much so! Just pointing out a minor error, nothing big. Looks like, according to the closing titles before the credits, that Billy escaped on 10/4/1975, almost 5 yrs to the day aft he was captured at the airport. Quite a coincidence. The movie is heavily fictionalized tho, Stone took a LOT of liberty w/the orig story.
tommyt1971 8 months ago
@romas1995 Corporate Crimes/White Color Crimes deserve that treament. Think of the men who caused the World Wide Great Recession.
indyfan22k 7 months ago
@romas1995 And he didn't get the treatment pictured in here. There are exaggerations and fiction. For example, he was never raped. Although, prisons are tough places in many countries. I have watched his story in Banged up abroad at Nat. Geo. Actually, I listened to worse stories from other people who were thrown the prisons in other parts of the world due to smuggling drugs.
kahraman 6 months ago
@tkhushrenada It´s not about the drugs, it´s about been an slave in a foreign prison and have a mega sentence just for politcal issues. You smuggle drugs, go to jail, but have to be treated like a person, not an animal. I don´t know if the turk jails at these time were like the movie represent. I saw it just like a movie, I don´t hate the turks. Seeing him escaping from that turk jail is liberating. He is returning to be a human, not a slave ;)
lalomir2000 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada No one thought he was a hero. It was a movie.
inilledra 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada I don't know if he was portrayed as a hero. They did do a number on the fascist turksih Government however, they ran a police state for over a decade and they were allies of the U.S. Their commitment to human rights was appalling and the only reason they got away with it was because they vowed never to invade Palestine and take back what had been their for four hundred years.
zapkvr 1 year ago
@tkhushrenada he's not portrayed as a hero, he's portrayed as someone who does something wrong but gets ludicrously over-punished for it.
AlexisCapri 11 months ago
@AlexisCapri
hence my later comment reading the book and agreeing he was over-punished and my earlier comment was wrong ^^
tkhushrenada 11 months ago
@tkhushrenada It was the 70's, shut up....go back to knitting booties for your grandkids!
PlanTonto 11 months ago
@tkhushrenada hahahahhaha wuss
949FUNK89 10 months ago
he looks like brad pitt
shanefolan 1 year ago
First of all, the actors are not real turkish guys. And secondly, this movie was exaggerated according to the REAL Billy Hayes! He said that they had all that stuff in that movie just to sell it...
Alpito123 1 year ago
dude if you want real stuff you should see locked at abroad.its just movie but these are real
aftoyarus 1 year ago
The only thing bad about this movie was that it was over exagerated according to the REAL Billy Hayes
dismounter1 1 year ago
Best movie ever.
noplacefordisgrace 1 year ago
He looks like a young Axl Rose, ya think?
Raymond09871 1 year ago
Great Film 10/10
XXX69696 1 year ago
Brilliant film,this opening scene...VERY INTENSE!
StrictlyForADULTS 1 year ago
wtf was he thinking?
PeterMayer 1 year ago
beautiful film
imentje 1 year ago
what is the theme song at the airport? (stress song)¿?¿?
rayktheon 1 year ago
Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay.
RobGoth100 1 year ago
I bet that if he stayed in line like everybody else they wouldnt have felt the hash beneath his shirts
hitmankanadiz13 1 year ago
@hitmankanadiz13
when I first saw the movie years ago, i was saying the same thing. But if you look at how they searched everyone else, didn't make a difference if he stood inline or not, they were searching the midsections of everyone. BTW, read the book, tells alot more detals, especially how he escaped, which didnt happen at all as the movie showed.
MrSkaramanga 1 year ago
@hitmankanadiz13 i know dude. never act guilty. why not just bring some seeds home?
mizzoulibertarian 1 year ago
@condors1972 Nuċċali; it's the Maltese word for Eyeglasses . It comes from the Italian word Occhiali
ellulivan 1 year ago
@ellulivan i love that part in maltes im from maltaa and it rare t see fillms likes these <3
annodzehdownut 1 year ago
@RealPinkDreams....actually the soldier on the bus first asks "what are you doing" in Maltese and then he says something else in another language. The soldiers near the plane....are not Mltese. As for the plane itself, it made part of the Airmalta fleet....infact you can recognize the colours which Airmalta used to paint its planes with back then. They changed only the plane's tail, to mask the 8 pointed cross (symbol of Malta) which would have otherwise revealed the trick.
ellulivan 1 year ago
@RealPinkDreams....And finally the prison where most of the movie takes place was set in Fort St. Elmo in Valletta (the capital city of Malta)
ellulivan 1 year ago
@RealPinkDreams at least three actors in this scene are Maltese. The two policemen searching his bag and the soldier searching on the bus.....they are speaking Maltese (my native tongue) not Turkish, Armenian or any other language. For the rest I don't what language is it.
ellulivan 1 year ago
@ellulivan dude, when the policeman asks him to take his glasses off...whats the word he uses?
condors1972 1 year ago
@xxLimbo85xx this movie just shows how retard can people be by giving Turkey a bad nae and out job is to kill you fuckers you will see in the news and tv any anti Turkey people will fucking die and you be a man give ur adress i'll come there fucking kill you
Bora199420 1 year ago
@Bora199420 theres plenty of anti turkish people out there, are you goanna come personally kill them all?
bunchabullsheet 1 year ago
@Bora199420 lol, fucking tough guy faggot
estanuk 1 year ago
Was this scene filmed at Luqa Airport in Malta?
waxwarrior03 1 year ago
@waxwarrior03 no but the language is Maltese
RealPinkDreams 1 year ago
-What he said ?
-I dont know
-They always have everything ass backwards in Turkey. ?????
truth is bitter
ScottySvensson 1 year ago
they not Turkish you dumb fucks
Bora199420 1 year ago
3:33 what did you say bitch ??????? i'll fuckgi kill u
Bora199420 1 year ago
whats the movie is about i am Turkish but i dont understand and the people that speak Turkish is not very fluent
Bora199420 1 year ago