"Well, it’s not a train. It’s a prison word for ... escape. But it doesn’t stop around here." - Max (John Hurt in Midnight Express 1978)
This is a line taken from director Alan Parker’s Academy Award winning prison drama Midnight Express where a hardened English prisoner named Max, played by John Hurt, implores his young, newly-convicted American friend Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) to escape the horrors of the grim Turkish prison that they both find themselves incarcerated in.
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