Billy Hayes and the Midnight Express
May 21, 2023

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's a heck of a story from a man with plenty to say. And he says most of it to Ed Opperman in this archive show.

William "Billy" Hayes is an American writer, actor, and film director. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign jails serving drug charge sentences, following a drug-smuggling crackdown by foreign governments.