Istanbul Horror Show
Coming to Auckland soon is a movie of more than passing Interest to the rock audience. Midnight Express Is a gripping tale of the dope smugglers who don't make it. Based on the true story of an American kid who tried to smuggle two kilos of hashish cut of Istanbul in 1970, it charts the agonies of five years in a Turkish prison. Director Alan Parker (Bugsy Malone) develops an atmosphere that is almost palpable as we endure the horror that is the lot of the hash smugglers confined in Sagmalcilar Prison. The cast never misses a step, with perhaps the outstanding performance coming from John Hurt (The Naked Civil Servant) as an English addict who has eked out seven years of imprisonment in a drugged oblivion. Midnight Express (prison jargon for "escape") is a film of extraordinary power, definitely recommended to those who travelled the Hash Trail . . . and to those who merely knew it by repute. Ken Williams
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Rip It Up, Issue 16, 1 October 1978, Page 18
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162Istanbul Horror Show Rip It Up, Issue 16, 1 October 1978, Page 18
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