The 1978 movie “Midnight Express,” based on a book by Billy Hayes, and adapted into a screenplay by Oliver Stone, shows Hayes’ arrest for trafficking in hashish, his beatings and the squalid prison conditions. Preservation Ī print of The Midnight Express is in the film collection of Cineteca Italiana (Milano).It was one of the travel nightmares of the 1970s, along with being hijacked to Cuba or being stuck behind the Iron Curtain – being thrown into a Turkish prison and left to rot.
He received another boost when later in 1924, during a Screenland interview, flamboyant actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce claimed that the best screen kiss she ever saw was between Haines and Hammerstein in The Midnight Express.
The film received good reviews, making it Haines' breakout role. Haines, then under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was loaned to Columbia Pictures, then a small studio, for five films, of which The Midnight Express was the first. As the result Jack, gets back in his father’s good graces and wins the affections of Mary. Jack is able to derail the runaway freight cars just in time to save the Midnight Express. just in time to derail However, several freight cars have broken from the train and are speeding down a mountainous grade, heading toward the Midnight Express which is ascending the incline.
He escapes again and corners Jack in a lonely dispatch station on a mountainside. The convict, who swears to get back at Jack, is sent back to jail. There he meets and falls in love with the engineer’s daughter, Mary (Hammerstein). Chasing an escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachely (Harmon), who had stolen his auto, leads Jack to the home of James Travers (Tilton), engineer of the big locomotive, the Midnight Express. 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.
Plot Īs described in a review in a film magazine, after a wild jazz party, railroad owner John Oakes (Nichols) disowns his son Jack (Haines) for being shiftless. Hill starring Elaine Hammerstein and William Haines. The Midnight Express is a 1924 American silent action crime film directed by George W.
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