Midnight Express is one of those rare films that doesn’t just get better but becomes more poignant and resonates louder with age. It’s possible that relations between the west and Middle East haven’t ...

North Babylon native Billy Hayes, a former drug smuggler whose nightmarish incarceration in Turkey was portrayed in the 1978 film "Midnight Express," is pitching to publishers a compilation of letters ...

Moviegoers in the 1970s were a hardy bunch. They’d already weathered nightmares involving sharks, Linda Blair’s spinning head and Ned Beatty’s misadventures in the Georgia woods. Billy Hayes, the ...

In the history of cinema, has any film done more to blacken a nation's reputation among travelers than "Midnight Express"? A quarter of a century after its release, people still cite it as a reason ...