I read the book and saw the film. And then bought a one way ticket to the Eastern med, travelling through Turkey and Greece in search of adventure. Beautiful countries, beautiful people.
In 1978 in College a friend and I watched it at the local movie theater in Bettencourt Iowa. Our eyes were glued to the screen, I was 22 that year so really hit home ‘cause Billy was 23 when he started his 5 years in Jail. The ending is one of the best scenes, it’s on RUclips.
One difference between the film and reality is he never killed the guard. The guard was murdered by another inmate who was out on parole that the guard had tortured by beating him and saying that he wasn't a real man and he had sex with his wife. So one day Hamidu the guard stopped by a teahouse on the way to work and the former inmate pulled out a gun and shot Hamidu dead. Hayes said that he would never kill a guard because he knew that once he escaped no one would have any sympathy for a murderer.
F*ck off. Have you ever learnt about the Turks? Have you watch the movie? In the f*cking movie, Turks are calling cats haram and killing them... Cats. Dude.. CATS. TURKISH CATS! Imagine the whole propaganda.
Wow that was an effective boycott of Turkey. Not even the embargo of turkey after the invasion of the island of Cyprus back in 1974 got the Turkish government shaking ..But this movie thena. Billy Hayes was buying drugs before he got caught... Why didn't he bring this up in the interview? Was he afraid it might tarnish him? How many lives did he destroyed with selling these drugs? They treated in like a celebrity here. So everyone's kissing ass these foolish clueless interviewers. And he's going to Turkey sort of apologizing for the movie treatment of just the prison system not the people of Turkey. 50 years later prison system is still kurupt like other systems around around the world, but Turkey and China have the largest amount of journalists who are imprisoned
Well that was a such an accomplishment. Gosh not even prez Fords embargo of Turkey got the Turkish government in removing 40000 of its troops out of Cyprus. But sadly the troops are still there after 40 years 50 years. And this very day this country refuses to acknowledge the genocide / Holocaust of the Armenians Greeks and Assyrian Christians.. but if Germany deny the Holocaust they'll never hear the end of it but Turkey gets a free pass. People forget the turkey has crowd for the longest time. The government was very heavy if anything negative would come out of Hollywood against Turkey after world war I. So this is the first movie since world war 1 that put turkey its government in a negative light. It's about time
Istanbul, one of the worlds greatest cities ,where east truely meets west I just wish I had made that amazing journey in 1970 and not 28 years later ,it must have been truely awesome in 1970 !!
God bless you billy!! I'm your biggest fan!!! I'd love to meet you an just smoke a joint an talk!!! My God I'd love that!!! You rock billy!!! Saw the movie over 200 times!!
So u wanna be a drug dealer like him then escape from prison? I don't think the world need an another Junkie who will release a black propaganda film with full of lies after escape from prison
@@Bocchi_TheGlock I'm already like him!! That's why billy an my self would be cool chilling with eachother..smoking my homemade bubble hash I make..and my hybrid strain of mike Tysons seed..and a standard super sour diesel!! It's the bomb!! My friends love my shit..and it's legal for me here where I'm from!! But the prison part..no..that's the shitty part of it..but billy is a survivor man!! And a very brave 23yrold he was too!! And I may as well say George Jung!! Another legend I'd love to party with!! But Jung passed away I think..💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇦I'm also an outlaw biker👊👊
Just to set it straight about the movie versus real life 1. Billy didn’t smuggle for the first time without being caught. He made at least 2 trips to Turkey beforehand doing it. 2. There was no Susan as a girlfriend that stayed faithful all the way. He traveled alone and a casual encounter named Lilly he knew before came to visit him baring her body. 3. Hamidou was actually a guard named Hamid. Not a totally sadistic prick that ran the whole prison doing whatever he wanted to 4. The snitch and backstabbing prick and trustee Rifki was based on trustees Emin and Ziat. Billy didn’t snap and kill him biting his tongue out. 5. Max was actually a Dutchman that was a lifer there, not an English junkie wasting away not caring about anything that died a slow, painful death at the hands of the sadistic head guard. 6. The dumb, angry, and negative American Jimmy Booth was based on the Harvey Bell character. Not the same kind of guy. 7. Billy didn’t have an initial 4 year sentence handed down to him only to be extended to 30 to life. He was in prison a while before he was handed an official sentence. 8. His time in the sanitarium was not from snapping after biting out the tongue of the trustee, but faked insanity in order to try escaping. 9. He didn’t escape killing the head guard. He escaped a prison island stealing a dinghy, sailing to the mainland, and crossing over to Greece. 10. The prison didn’t look like a structure from the Middle Ages with a huge open yard, but actually a very sterile, concrete structure with no contact to see the outside. 11. The Turkish spoken in the movie was gibberish or nonexistent except for the speech in court the prosecutor gave.
still you forget 2 things. The Turkish newspaper of 1970 wrote that he smuggled heroin in his plaster leg. And 2nd the story with George who got beaten up badly for trying to escape and for saving Billy by not telling the name of his partner to the guards. I played chess with Billy btw.
When I first saw the film, on DVD, back in 2001, my impression of the film had nothing to do with Turkey at all. Billy got caught, and where in the world is there a prison where you get treated like you’re at the Ritz Carlton?? I realized that not only in the film, but in reality there was tension between the states and Turkey because of President Nixon, which added to the intensity of anger between Turkey and the states. Actor Paul Smith (who played Hamidou “the bull” prison guard) did such a phenomenal job that for a second I thought he was actually Turkish!
That movie traumatized the shit out of me when , i was a kid no way in hell was i ever going to turkey. In my later life i actually became a world traveler , living and working abroad for many year's. I always show that movie to the young people i know when they embark on their international travels for the first time. I was shocked when nat geo showed the locked abroad on the real Billy Hayes story. The one thing Billy is right about is the COMPLETE STUPIDITY some people do abroad especially trying to smuggle drugs. When no good A HOLE asks you to take the package for money BELIEVE YOU ARE THE SUCKER you will be caught and face serious consequences while the rest of MULES just walk on by. I have no respect for drug smugglers i think they are scum but i do respect billy for having and showing some character bye telling people not do it and recognizing he was wrong. KNOW THE RULES AND UNDERSTAND YOU ARE NOT IN AMERICA AND SHOW DAMN RESPECT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES COSTUMES AND LAWS. BELIEVE ME YOU DONT WANT TO BE THAT IDIOT.
i am 59yrs old and I watched the movie and still in today's world i wouldn't want to go to that terrible place i don't even want to say the country, or the city's name and even today's world it's scummy place and the people. it's a sad thing that happened to Brad Davis.
I saw this film when i was around 15 years old and cos of it i never wanted to go to Turkey ever. I did vist Turkey in 2007 BEST holiday ever. I love Turkey very much and the people.
@@isaachunt7543Stanley most of the people havent admitted to the Armenian Greek and Assyrian Christian genocides of 110 years ago. If they did that in Germany what's the denial of the Holocaust they'll never hear the end of it
i went to Turkey 6 years ago, and i have to say, the movies very realistic. I was imprisoned too, hung upside down, and beaten for 5 years, bit a guys tongue off before escaping. It was great, definitely recommend it.
aas he ever told something about his friendship with the actor , very talened and underrated and handsome Brad Davis who played himself? they became very friends ( and also sharesd some drugs,,, nights), it would be interesting to listeni his momories about him.
how come my possesion crime I was arrested for didn't turn out as popular as this dudes possession charge did.. wtf. he is a hero and I'm considered a scumbag...my charge was for weed too..
I am wondering what he would do if he were not able to break out from prison. Would he still say that it was a one dimensional film. I am a Turkish person who is living in exile now and my friends were tortured in Turkish prisons in 2019. There are 600 kids are in Turkish jails now (2023) and pregnant women as well. Things did not get better after all those years.
....how many miles did Billy row in that dinghy to Greece i wonder? I have been convicted of a crime i truly did not commit, i have been given a 3 & half jail term now, (waiting for the letter from the prosecutor to tell me when to go to get collected in jail van to prison, (I'm a British citizen living in Taiwan for the past 20 years) my wife and i, have proven the prosecutor has lied in her statements, I have been accused, (this will turn your stomach as this kind of crime is frowned upon around the world) of sexual assault on a minor a 7 years old girl, I'm an English language teacher and have taught this 7 years old girl in her home, not school, she had poked me in my genital during class time, (she had done this a couple of times before and I told her off about this) her mother is a hard person and while teaching her brother who is around 9 years old at the time, i had heard for 1 hour non-stop her mother beating her for doing something bad or whatever. So I didn't want to report to her mother in what her daughter did to me, I wanted to sort this out with her, give her a chance not to do again, unfortunately, this girl was sexually attracted to me believe it or not, I noticed she was quite sexually active too. Always playing with herself down under, hand inside her pants, brother too sometimes, but he stopped doing that after I warned him, never did again, but the daughter would carry on. Cut long story short, my past 3 lawyers had been lazy and not looked over my files properly, they like to take on business cases as they get big pay offs in company disputes if they win the case that is, just like all lawyers around the world do. So I had incompetent, couldn't care less lawyers. A 2 year battle and judges handed down this jail term, (all judges biased 100% towards myself, ignoring mothers blatant lies which were so obvious to see) btw, this country no jury, judge decision which is so wrong, both Japan and South Korea have changed over to jury, why can't Taiwan follow suit, if jury, most certainly the outcome would have been different, I showed all the mother, daughter and sons inconsistencies and lies and the prosecutor fraudulence in adding in her statements that I used a quilt to cover me during class when the daughter, (winter time, Feburary 5th, cold weather) had used it to cover herself, I stated in prosecutor court 5 times that the daughter used it to cover herself with, not me, the prosecutor stated in the report, (we have prosecutor’s text file of that court appearance)that I SAID I USED THE QUILT TO COVER MYSELF when I didn’t say those words at all! She has no evidence whatsoever and out of desperation, altered/added this false statement. My wife found this out by going over the hundreds of pages of text files, bless her heart, this has great potential in saving me. There are many more faults that proves much lying going on in this case. Many. My useless lawyers, translators, judges and prosecutors all against me right from the start. ………So back to Billy escaping by sea, I’m wondering and checking out if I too can escape this island by sea, from Taiwan to China, (which like Greece and Turkey hate each other, so too are China and Taiwan) it is a 106 mile crossing at the narrowest, can I do it by stealing a boat or paying off a boat owner, like a fisherman I wonder. Even if I make it 50 miles out to West direction towards China I’ve made it to Chinese waters, then can flag down a Chinese coastguard or military ship and ask for political asylum. So like Billy, I have the same dilemma, another Midnight Express coming up! Today in 2020.
@@David-og7di ....Due to Corvid 19, no boats are allowed to sail out, cruise boats/ships grounded, planes grounded, I'm stuck here, my luck, unless I can steal a boat like Billy did!
From video to video he goes from that movie blocked from 70-75-85-90- and now 95% of the tourists from going there. You cannot trust any auto,,biography,none.
I hope the play is a Drama and not a Musical like they did with other great movies such as "A Bronx Tale", "Monty Python And The Holy Grail", "Young Frankenstein", et.al.
What's sad,the turkey of 2023,is what the movie shows, the fundamentals would of killed him after a fake trial lucky if he got 25 30,so the movie has come full circle. Was in Frankfurt in 80s, in the army ,great city, was always copping herion, look back now,you get caught up in it you forget your not in America anymore,two guys got caught with tiny bit,wete given 25yrs by our army which was a bigger crime then what they did,in New York same amount same crime,one wkend of community service ,25yrs hard labor,ft Riley Kansas hopefully there out,living good,we were all on the boxing team,two brothers from DC
In the movie ? Like 10-15% of it. What is true from the movie is that yes a depraved prison guard did exist but no where as near as extreme and cruel like Hamidou in the movie.. in fact that prison guard was murdered by gun point from a former prisoner.. Erik the Swedish guy was true... Rifki was true but in real life he wasn’t batshit crazy... the escape scene was completely different he didn’t simply just walk out. He escaped by a small fishing boat and crossed over to Greece.
Douglas Freeman completely absurd to discredit the Turkish nation is no such prisons in Turkey....film Türkleri kötülemek için yapılmış.Türkiye de böyle hapishaneler yoktur tamamen saçma ..
In the book the Swedish guy Erik did exist and he did go through some experiences with a guy like rifki but not how the movie portrayed him. Depraved/ lack of moral character etc. I didn’t read the book but this is based off what my friend told me who read the book
You have a better chance to get raped in a modern US prison than a Turkish prison back in the 70s back then prisoners had their own wash area with curtains and entrances where you didn’t shower with other man all bundled in one room. That’s how billy described it in the book
I'm 59yrs old i watched the movie and i would never would like to go there. That's unbelievable how billy explains how he escaped from imrilo island and got on the small boat Barry shulman.
Back then the drug war was at its highest my man every country including the US would hand out high prison sentences for anyone trying to smuggled drugs out the country, billy decided to smuggle at the wrong time for being an ignorant college kid not picking up on the News and what was going on with the hijack terrorist situation... plus what the movie doesn’t mention is that billy actually smuggled drugs out of turkey MULTIPLE times before he got caught but his pride and ego got to him.. the Turkish airport was in high alert because of all the terrorist blowing up planes so that’s why he got caught.. previous to all that basically anyone can go inside a plane without really being checked. But speaking by personal experience I highly doubt turkey would give a lifetime sentence now.. they’re more liberal than they were 30 years ago... in China or Vietnam that’s a different story but for many countries you’ll prob get send out to your country and serve the prison term there... plus turkey is a great country with lots of rich history
It was the early 70s.. airport security was basically a walk in, stamp your passport and go wherever you want. He made profit by selling it and had the best hash he could smoke. What He should’ve done is read the newspaper rather than following some random belly dancing chick around and ignoring what was going on with the PLO blowing up planes and such. Would’ve potentially saved him at that time.
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I read the book and saw the film. And then bought a one way ticket to the Eastern med, travelling through Turkey and Greece in search of adventure. Beautiful countries, beautiful people.
In 1978 in College a friend and I watched it at the local movie theater in Bettencourt Iowa. Our eyes were glued to the screen, I was 22 that year so really hit home ‘cause Billy was 23 when he started his 5 years in Jail.
The ending is one of the best scenes, it’s on RUclips.
Turkey... Beautiful country , beautiful people. Lots of culture. Very welcoming of foreigners.
I wondered that too, did he ever see his friends again?
This film is a warning don't smuggle drugs in foreign countries. But its still happening.
The film was very factually wrong
One difference between the film and reality is he never killed the guard. The guard was murdered by another inmate who was out on parole that the guard had tortured by beating him and saying that he wasn't a real man and he had sex with his wife. So one day Hamidu the guard stopped by a teahouse on the way to work and the former inmate pulled out a gun and shot Hamidu dead. Hayes said that he would never kill a guard because he knew that once he escaped no one would have any sympathy for a murderer.
It's so absurd to believe the words of a junkie
Exactly
F*ck off. Have you ever learnt about the Turks? Have you watch the movie? In the f*cking movie, Turks are calling cats haram and killing them... Cats. Dude.. CATS. TURKISH CATS! Imagine the whole propaganda.
@Kencoakley3959 : Wow I never knew that part till now ! Many Thanks for Sharing ! 👍❤🙏🇬🇧
An excellent film and a well spoken, highly educated man that is William Hayes.
Great interview. Billy speaks well.
That's an astonishing figure, the drop in tourism after the movie came out!
Wow that was an effective boycott of Turkey. Not even the embargo of turkey after the invasion of the island of Cyprus back in 1974 got the Turkish government shaking ..But this movie thena. Billy Hayes was buying drugs before he got caught... Why didn't he bring this up in the interview? Was he afraid it might tarnish him? How many lives did he destroyed with selling these drugs? They treated in like a celebrity here. So everyone's kissing ass these foolish clueless interviewers. And he's going to Turkey sort of apologizing for the movie treatment of just the prison system not the people of Turkey. 50 years later prison system is still kurupt like other systems around around the world, but Turkey and China have the largest amount of journalists who are imprisoned
Well that was a such an accomplishment. Gosh not even prez Fords embargo of Turkey got the Turkish government in removing 40000 of its troops out of Cyprus. But sadly the troops are still there after 40 years 50 years. And this very day this country refuses to acknowledge the genocide / Holocaust of the Armenians Greeks and Assyrian Christians.. but if Germany deny the Holocaust they'll never hear the end of it but Turkey gets a free pass. People forget the turkey has crowd for the longest time. The government was very heavy if anything negative would come out of Hollywood against Turkey after world war I. So this is the first movie since world war 1 that put turkey its government in a negative light. It's about time
Amazing movie 😭😭😭😭 feelsgood👌👌👌👌
Istanbul, one of the worlds greatest cities ,where east truely meets west I just wish I had made that amazing journey in 1970 and not 28 years later ,it must have been truely awesome in 1970 !!
God bless you billy!! I'm your biggest fan!!! I'd love to meet you an just smoke a joint an talk!!! My God I'd love that!!! You rock billy!!! Saw the movie over 200 times!!
So u wanna be a drug dealer like him then escape from prison? I don't think the world need an another Junkie who will release a black propaganda film with full of lies after escape from prison
@@Bocchi_TheGlock I'm already like him!! That's why billy an my self would be cool chilling with eachother..smoking my homemade bubble hash I make..and my hybrid strain of mike Tysons seed..and a standard super sour diesel!! It's the bomb!! My friends love my shit..and it's legal for me here where I'm from!! But the prison part..no..that's the shitty part of it..but billy is a survivor man!! And a very brave 23yrold he was too!! And I may as well say George Jung!! Another legend I'd love to party with!! But Jung passed away I think..💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇦I'm also an outlaw biker👊👊
He's an incredible communicator.
Just to set it straight about the movie versus real life
1. Billy didn’t smuggle for the first time without being caught. He made at least 2 trips to Turkey beforehand doing it.
2. There was no Susan as a girlfriend that stayed faithful all the way. He traveled alone and a casual encounter named Lilly he knew before came to visit him baring her body.
3. Hamidou was actually a guard named Hamid. Not a totally sadistic prick that ran the whole
prison doing whatever he wanted to
4. The snitch and backstabbing prick and trustee Rifki was based on trustees Emin and Ziat. Billy didn’t snap and kill him biting his tongue out.
5. Max was actually a Dutchman that was a lifer there, not an English junkie wasting away not caring about anything that died a slow, painful death at the hands of the sadistic head guard.
6. The dumb, angry, and negative American Jimmy Booth was based on the Harvey Bell character. Not the same kind of guy.
7. Billy didn’t have an initial 4 year sentence handed down to him only to be extended to 30 to life. He was in prison a while before he was handed an official sentence.
8. His time in the sanitarium was not from snapping after biting out the tongue of the trustee, but faked insanity in order to try escaping.
9. He didn’t escape killing the head guard. He escaped a prison island stealing a dinghy, sailing to the mainland, and crossing over to Greece.
10. The prison didn’t look like a structure from the Middle Ages with a huge open yard, but actually a very sterile, concrete structure with no contact to see the outside.
11. The Turkish spoken in the movie was gibberish or nonexistent except for the speech in court the prosecutor gave.
still you forget 2 things. The Turkish newspaper of 1970 wrote that he smuggled heroin in his plaster leg. And 2nd the story with George who got beaten up badly for trying to escape and for saving Billy by not telling the name of his partner to the guards. I played chess with Billy btw.
What a Braves man
Genius film.talk about philosophy of life.
TOP 3 COOLEST PEOPLE EVER: 1) CLINT EASTWOOD 2) BURT REYNOLDS 3) BILLY HAYES
/G\ LIGHTNING LODGE 666 ...u. he put Clint Eastwood ahead of Billy Hayes..
Three Exaggerated personalities
When the actor Billy died of aids it really bothered me. I saw the movie in 1978 in college with my friend Dave.
When I first saw the film, on DVD, back in 2001, my impression of the film had nothing to do with Turkey at all. Billy got caught, and where in the world is there a prison where you get treated like you’re at the Ritz Carlton?? I realized that not only in the film, but in reality there was tension between the states and Turkey because of President Nixon, which added to the intensity of anger between Turkey and the states. Actor Paul Smith (who played Hamidou “the bull” prison guard) did such a phenomenal job that for a second I thought he was actually Turkish!
That movie traumatized the shit out of me when , i was a kid no way in hell was i ever going to turkey. In my later life i actually became a world traveler , living and working abroad for many year's. I always show that movie to the young people i know when they embark on their international travels for the first time. I was shocked when nat geo showed the locked abroad on the real Billy Hayes story. The one thing Billy is right about is the COMPLETE STUPIDITY some people do abroad especially trying to smuggle drugs. When no good A HOLE asks you to take the package for money BELIEVE YOU ARE THE SUCKER you will be caught and face serious consequences while the rest of MULES just walk on by. I have no respect for drug smugglers i think they are scum but i do respect billy for having and showing some character bye telling people not do it and recognizing he was wrong. KNOW THE RULES AND UNDERSTAND YOU ARE NOT IN AMERICA AND SHOW DAMN RESPECT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES COSTUMES AND LAWS. BELIEVE ME YOU DONT WANT TO BE THAT IDIOT.
The actress that played Witchipoo on HR Puff n Stuff was also named Billy Hayes. I wonder if they ever got each other's mail.
Lol! Funny take!
I love Turkey 🇹🇷
Trees in Billy's back yard grew a lot while he was incarcerated.
i am 59yrs old and I watched the movie and still in today's world i wouldn't want to go to that terrible place i don't even want to say the country, or the city's name and even today's world it's scummy place and the people. it's a sad thing that happened to Brad Davis.
I saw this film when i was around 15 years old and cos of it i never wanted to go to Turkey ever. I did vist Turkey in 2007 BEST holiday ever. I love Turkey very much and the people.
No. U numpty. He was importing it not growing it
@@isaachunt7543Stanley most of the people havent admitted to the Armenian Greek and Assyrian Christian genocides of 110 years ago. If they did that in Germany what's the denial of the Holocaust they'll never hear the end of it
i went to Turkey 6 years ago, and i have to say, the movies very realistic. I was imprisoned too, hung upside down, and beaten for 5 years, bit a guys tongue off before escaping. It was great, definitely recommend it.
ahahahahahaha The reality of turkey...
Glamoriizing a criminal who smuggled drugs into a country 4 times and escaped.
You know the laws in a country when you commit a crime.
L7
aas he ever told something about his friendship with the actor , very talened and underrated and handsome Brad Davis who played himself? they became very friends ( and also sharesd some drugs,,, nights), it would be interesting to listeni his momories about him.
how come my possesion crime I was arrested for didn't turn out as popular as this dudes possession charge did.. wtf. he is a hero and I'm considered a scumbag...my charge was for weed too..
At the very least turkey might not give 30 years for hash to a foreign kid. Especially after 95% tourism drops.
So right of you! You bloody said it!!
many foreigners are locked down for 20 years in Philippine and everywhere for same reason
Veeeelium highz
Amazing story👍🏻
I am wondering what he would do if he were not able to break out from prison. Would he still say that it was a one dimensional film. I am a Turkish person who is living in exile now and my friends were tortured in Turkish prisons in 2019. There are 600 kids are in Turkish jails now (2023) and pregnant women as well. Things did not get better after all those years.
Y'a pas de traduction en français ? Dommage mais on comprend le principal ...
....how many miles did Billy row in that dinghy to Greece i wonder?
I have been convicted of a crime i truly did not commit, i have been given a 3 & half jail term now, (waiting for the letter from the prosecutor to tell me when to go to get collected in jail van to prison, (I'm a British citizen living in Taiwan for the past 20 years) my wife and i, have proven the prosecutor has lied in her statements, I have been accused, (this will turn your stomach as this kind of crime is frowned upon around the world) of sexual assault on a minor a 7 years old girl, I'm an English language teacher and have taught this 7 years old girl in her home, not school, she had poked me in my genital during class time, (she had done this a couple of times before and I told her off about this) her mother is a hard person and while teaching her brother who is around 9 years old at the time, i had heard for 1 hour non-stop her mother beating her for doing something bad or whatever. So I didn't want to report to her mother in what her daughter did to me, I wanted to sort this out with her, give her a chance not to do again, unfortunately, this girl was sexually attracted to me believe it or not, I noticed she was quite sexually active too. Always playing with herself down under, hand inside her pants, brother too sometimes, but he stopped doing that after I warned him, never did again, but the daughter would carry on.
Cut long story short, my past 3 lawyers had been lazy and not looked over my files properly, they like to take on business cases as they get big pay offs in company disputes if they win the case that is, just like all lawyers around the world do.
So I had incompetent, couldn't care less lawyers. A 2 year battle and judges handed down this jail term, (all judges biased 100% towards myself, ignoring mothers blatant lies which were so obvious to see) btw, this country no jury, judge decision which is so wrong, both Japan and South Korea have changed over to jury, why can't Taiwan follow suit, if jury, most certainly the outcome would have been different, I showed all the mother, daughter and sons inconsistencies and lies and the prosecutor fraudulence in adding in her statements that I used a quilt to cover me during class when the daughter, (winter time, Feburary 5th, cold weather) had used it to cover herself, I stated in prosecutor court 5 times that the daughter used it to cover herself with, not me, the prosecutor stated in the report, (we have prosecutor’s text file of that court appearance)that I SAID I USED THE QUILT TO COVER MYSELF when I didn’t say those words at all! She has no evidence whatsoever and out of desperation, altered/added this false statement.
My wife found this out by going over the hundreds of pages of text files, bless her heart, this has great potential in saving me. There are many more faults that proves much lying going on in this case. Many. My useless lawyers, translators, judges and prosecutors all against me right from the start.
………So back to Billy escaping by sea, I’m wondering and checking out if I too can escape this island by sea, from Taiwan to China, (which like Greece and Turkey hate each other, so too are China and Taiwan) it is a 106 mile crossing at the narrowest, can I do it by stealing a boat or paying off a boat owner, like a fisherman I wonder. Even if I make it 50 miles out to West direction towards China I’ve made it to Chinese waters, then can flag down a Chinese coastguard or military ship and ask for political asylum. So like Billy, I have the same dilemma, another Midnight Express coming up! Today in 2020.
you need to get out if your for real
@@David-og7di ....Due to Corvid 19, no boats are allowed to sail out, cruise boats/ships grounded, planes grounded, I'm stuck here, my luck, unless I can steal a boat like Billy did!
From video to video he goes from that movie blocked from 70-75-85-90- and now 95% of the tourists from going there.
You cannot trust any auto,,biography,none.
I hope the play is a Drama and not a Musical like they did with other great movies such as "A Bronx Tale", "Monty Python And The Holy Grail", "Young Frankenstein", et.al.
When he was interviewed in 1978 he was not saying anything about nice Turkish people.
Billie Hayes the man, and Billie Hayes the woman look like twins, how wierd.
They say crime does,nt pay😂
What's sad,the turkey of 2023,is what the movie shows, the fundamentals would of killed him after a fake trial lucky if he got 25 30,so the movie has come full circle. Was in Frankfurt in 80s, in the army ,great city, was always copping herion, look back now,you get caught up in it you forget your not in America anymore,two guys got caught with tiny bit,wete given 25yrs by our army which was a bigger crime then what they did,in New York same amount same crime,one wkend of community service ,25yrs hard labor,ft Riley Kansas hopefully there out,living good,we were all on the boxing team,two brothers from DC
the big question is, how much of it was true
All -
Barbara Ligeti you was there? Haw u can be so sure??
In the movie ? Like 10-15% of it. What is true from the movie is that yes a depraved prison guard did exist but no where as near as extreme and cruel like Hamidou in the movie.. in fact that prison guard was murdered by gun point from a former prisoner.. Erik the Swedish guy was true... Rifki was true but in real life he wasn’t batshit crazy... the escape scene was completely different he didn’t simply just walk out. He escaped by a small fishing boat and crossed over to Greece.
@@marksinclair2592 I wish Hollywood would stop fucking around with true stories.
Nothing against Turks, but a life sentence for 2 kilos of hashish would allow a little critic ...
It wasn't a life sentence in real.
I will never forgive u! don't forget u make a lot many because of your experience..jest because u laid
Your sentence is incomprehensible.
Speak English you fool.
Don’t smuggle drugs in a foreign country - just bring it to the USA 🇺🇸
How did he return to Turkey for a holiday if he was a prison escapee
No laws against doing drugs in turkey,just don't smuggle
i would like to know if the english guy remained in turkey.such a nice movie and the actor is just brilliant sadly he died by suicide
So Sad !
The actor didn't die by suicide. Do you mean the real prisoner?
these are the armenian theaters..!
Say wuh???I don't think so!!!...
Douglas Freeman
completely absurd to discredit the Turkish nation is no such prisons in Turkey....film Türkleri kötülemek için yapılmış.Türkiye de böyle hapishaneler yoktur tamamen saçma ..
Billy how about Your friends from prison?did they realy existed?
In the book the Swedish guy Erik did exist and he did go through some experiences with a guy like rifki but not how the movie portrayed him. Depraved/ lack of moral character etc. I didn’t read the book but this is based off what my friend told me who read the book
Yet
How many times he drop the soap in prison shower?
You have a better chance to get raped in a modern US prison than a Turkish prison back in the 70s back then prisoners had their own wash area with curtains and entrances where you didn’t shower with other man all bundled in one room. That’s how billy described it in the book
I'm 59yrs old i watched the movie and i would never would like to go there. That's unbelievable how billy explains how he escaped from imrilo island and got on the small boat Barry shulman.
Barry Shulman don't worry turkey we survive even if u don't come! 🖕
Back then the drug war was at its highest my man every country including the US would hand out high prison sentences for anyone trying to smuggled drugs out the country, billy decided to smuggle at the wrong time for being an ignorant college kid not picking up on the News and what was going on with the hijack terrorist situation... plus what the movie doesn’t mention is that billy actually smuggled drugs out of turkey MULTIPLE times before he got caught but his pride and ego got to him.. the Turkish airport was in high alert because of all the terrorist blowing up planes so that’s why he got caught.. previous to all that basically anyone can go inside a plane without really being checked. But speaking by personal experience I highly doubt turkey would give a lifetime sentence now.. they’re more liberal than they were 30 years ago... in China or Vietnam that’s a different story but for many countries you’ll prob get send out to your country and serve the prison term there... plus turkey is a great country with lots of rich history
0:03 Always a good idea to have Jabba the Hutt's sister for an interview on TV.
She is pregnant, sheesh.
Why would william hayes feel the need to appologise when it was oliver stone that wrote the script?
because he did not speak up
I do not understand why he risked his life like this......
It was the early 70s.. airport security was basically a walk in, stamp your passport and go wherever you want. He made profit by selling it and had the best hash he could smoke. What He should’ve done is read the newspaper rather than following some random belly dancing chick around and ignoring what was going on with the PLO blowing up planes and such. Would’ve potentially saved him at that time.