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The film Midnight Express (1978) was based on the events experienced by American Billy Hayes, who was sent to a prison in Turkey for trying to smuggle hash out of that country. Hayes wrote a book about it, but the film deviated from the book and upset the Turkish authorities for painting such a brutal picture.
The title Midnight Express, is a slang term for a prison escape attempt.
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