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Midnight Express

Dope-smuggling Brad Davis’ Turkish jail and John Hurt hell, as over-didactically scripted by Oliver Stone. Our RE teacher actually played this, ‘visiting hours’ scene and all, in class, along with Cool Hand Luke and some other films we’ve long forgotten, all the while resembling the dead spit of Tim Brooke-Taylor circa You Must Be The Husband. Which was, needless to say, great. Sorry, we thought this was Friends Reunited for a second there.

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  1. Tom Ronson

    May 23, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    My dad was most upset by the very brief scene in which it looks as if Brad Davis and his prison buddy are about to have gay sex, but pull back at the last moment. All the fucked-up stuff going on in this film (such as John Hurt’s cat being killed and the brutal beatings) and that was where he drew the line and said ‘Nah, switch it off.’ I reckon My Beautiful Laundrette would have finished him off.

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