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Midnight Express

Cast
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, John Hurt, Mike Kellin, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Gigi Ballista
Released
1978
Billy Hayes | Janis Joplin | codeine | hashish | heroin | pentobarbital | Nembutal
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Packaging hashish
College student Billy tapes packages around his abdomen.(0:01)

His friend Susan asks Billy, "Nervous?" (0:03)

Susan tells Billy, "Janis Joplin died yesterday."
"Overdose"
Newspaper: "Janis Joplin, Rock Star, Dies at 27; Drug Overdose Found" (0:06)

Interpreter Tex asks Billy, "Where did you get the hashish?" (0:14)

Tex tells Billy, "People kicking up a shit storm about the flow of heroin from Turkey."
Billy: "I didn't have heroin."
"A drug's a drug..."
"It shows the world they're fighting the drug trade."
Billy: "I'm not a pusher." (0:15)

Billy sits next to a hookah. (0:17)

Billy tells prisoners Jimmy and Erch, "You gotta be crazy."
Jimmy: "Yeah, we're all crazy here."
"Smoke some of this... It'll cool the pain." (0:26)

Jimmy, referring to Rifki: "He sells... hash... Nembutals... What you in for, hash?" (0:28)

Erich tells Billy he's in for "Hashish. 90% of the foreigners are in for hashish." (0:29)

Closeup of Max's arm with track marks
Closeup of paraphernalia
Max: "Gastro... It's got codeine in it." (0:30)

Billy writes to Susan: "So is homosexuality... I know it must all sound crazy to you, but this place is crazy." (0:45)

Billy tells prisoner Rifki, "You rip us off on the hash." (0:49)

Max tells Jimmy, "You must be... crazy." (0:57)

Chief guard Hamidou opens a match box and says, “Hashish.” (1:29)

Title: “Section 13, for the criminally insane.”
Inmates behave erratically. (1:32)

Billy tells Hamidou, “You’re not taking me to the sanitarium. You’re not taking me to the sanitarium.“ (1:51)

References in Rue MandarWho's Your Monkey