[maui_hawaii]

What is Midnight Express?

[freedomlover]

A movie. Google it

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

What is Midnight Express?

A movie about a westerner escaping a Turkish prison who was convicted on drug offenses, as I recall.

[DTogo]

Midnight Express:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/

[flying Elvis]

A fellow thought he could smuggle two kilos of hash out of Turkey. Got caught and ended up spending some quality time in a Turkish prison. The story was made into a movie in 1978.

[Delta 21]

Max: The best thing to do is to get your ass out of here. Best way that you can.

Billy Hayes: Yeah, but how?

Max: Catch the midnight express.

Billy Hayes: But what's that?

Max: [laughs] Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for... escape. But it doesn't stop around here.