Midnight Express/Trivia

*According to the line "Geez, I hate flying." said by the main character's girlfriend at the beginning of the story, it is revealed that she hates flying.
*Starting in June 1983, video releases and TV broadcasts of this film were closed-captioned. Before 1998, video releases were closed-captioned by the National Captioning Institute, which also captioned every TV broadcast. The 1998 video release was captioned by Captions, Inc. of Los Angeles, California. 
*NCI spells the "Geez, I hate flying" line with a "G" at the start, while Captions, Inc. spells it with a "J" at the start.
*Running Gag: Erich's "If they make it possession, the sentence is lighter" line.
*Some of the VHS and Betamax copies and full frame non-US DVD prints included text before the end credits run that did not appear on the US DVD and Blu ray copies "On May 18,1978 the motion picture you have just seen was shown to an audience of world press at the Cannes Film Festival.... 43 days later the United States and Turkey entered into formal negotations for the exchange of prisoners."
===Cultural refrences===
*Billy Hayes mentions Babylon at one point in this film, when he answers Tex that he has a family back home. Babylon is the name of a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC and a street on Long Island.
*Stalag 17 is mentioned in this film.
===Goofs===
*In the 1980 red border clamshell VHS, a character's lips sometimes mouth a swear word and don't match with a better word censor they are saying. This is because in this version of the movie, some swearing scenes are edited down and dubbed over, due to the original version using a few cursing parts. For example, when Mr. Hayes angrily says to Hamidou "Or I'll have your freakin' head, you Turkish coward!", he still mouths out "Or I'll have your f**kin' head, you Turkish b*****d!".
*Sometimes, when watching a family-friendly edited red border clamshell VHS, you might get fooled by the uncut version playing instead of the kids' edit.
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