Review of Midnight Express (1978) by Jason P — 10 Apr 2011

Randy Quaid keeps popping up in the strangest places. I saw him a few weeks ago in The Last Detail with Nicholson. He did a great job in both films! Such a shame that up to that point, his most notable role for me was in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

I read that this film wasn't enturely factual. The screenplay *was* written by Oliver Stone, though, so you kind of have to go into it expecting that. Still, it is a very harrowing story and well told. There are some gems from the seventies that don't get a lot of press these days. I wonder why that is. Maybe because of so many disco-inspired soundtracks...