There's two ways out, I figure. Over the roof, but that's only one person, maybe two. The...
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[Billy, Max and Jimmy are going over blueprints of the prison]
Jimmy:
There's two ways out, I figure. Over the roof, but that's only one person, maybe two. The other way is under.
Billy Hayes:
Tunnel?
Jimmy:
It's already built! There's a basement substructure where they used to keep weapons and stuff, but beneath that there's these old catacombs that the Christians built about a thousand fucking years ago to bury their dead. We're sitting right on top of it - here. The Kraut said there's a whole bunch of hollow sealed shafts sort of like dumbwaiters running along this wall. One of them is right in there, right next to our shower. We can get in there, he says, we can get down into the catacombs. With the three of us working...
Max:
[tapping at the wall]
Gotta be here someplace. Thought I heard a couple of dead Christians singing down there.
Jimmy:
Stop shitting me, man!
Billy Hayes:
But how would you get into the shaft, Jimmy?
Max:
I suppose you knock three times and ask for St. Peter.
Transcript
There are two ways out of here.
One is over the roof,
but that's kind of risky.
Maybe one person.
Two at the most.
The other way, I'll need your help,
and that is under.
A tunnel?
- Are you serious?
- This is not Stalag 17.
That's where you're wrong.
The tunnel is already built.
There's a basement
where they used to keep weapons.
Beneath that are the catacombs the
Christians built to bury their dead.
We're sitting right on top of it here.
The kraut says that there's
a bunch of hollow shafts.
They're like dumbwaiters,
all along these walls.
One of them
is right next to our shower.
If we get in there,
we can get down into the catacombs.
With three of us working,
it shouldn't take too long.
Must be around here someplace.
I swear I heard a couple of dead
Christians singing down there.
- You stop shitting me, man. Okay?
- How do we get into the shaft?
We knock three times and say
we're a friend of the deceased.
I'm getting this together and
I don't need no gastro-head along.
You understand me?
- We go through the wall.
- We go through the wall?
Go through the wall.
The kraut was right. I checked it out.
There's no reinforced steel
in those shower walls.
It's real soft
from underground seepage.
The water like weeps
through the cement.
Twenty, thirty years.
You can almost push it over.
All we have to do...
We only have to use your screwdriver
to scrape the mortar out.
We pull out three stones
and squeeze through...
Clip duration: 163 seconds
Views: 394
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: drama, crime
Summary: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Comments
Actors
00:25 There are no straight lawyers in Turkey
00:14 I've been here a very
00:22 They put them here
00:30 Good morning
01:51 I promise you
00:15 Could I have a blanket
00:27 Why peacocks
00:46 And you got caught
01:06 Where are you stayin'
00:11 I'm afraid I have some bad news for you
00:09 I wish I could make it better for you
00:08 You seem like a nice enough kid
00:33 Prison monastery cloister cave
00:57 So now it's time for me to speak
00:19 It looks like a cheap hotel The room service is lousy
00:18 Dear Susan 1970 has now passed into 1971
00:34 The best thing to do is to get your ass out of here
00:31 Prosecutor
00:45 Like that
00:56 Where are you going