Wednesday, February 25, 2015

From ‘Midnight Express’ to Discovering the Allure of Turkey - NYTimes.com

From ‘Midnight Express’ to Discovering the Allure of Turkey

Many movies inspire visits to a country. Not so “Midnight Express,” adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes’s memoir recounting his 1970 arrest and imprisonment for attempting to smuggle hashish onto a flight from Istanbul to New York and his escape in 1975.

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