Midnight Express
Prison escape drama
Midnight Express refers to the 1978 film depicting an American's brutal experience in a Turkish prison after being caught smuggling hashish.
The title has become shorthand for harsh foreign imprisonment or the nightmare of being caught with drugs abroad.
More generally, a midnight express suggests any desperate, clandestine escape or flight under cover of darkness.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- TurkeyTranscontinental Eurasian republic
- escapeFlight from captivity
- escape planStrategy for fleeing confinement
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
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