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.

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.

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 watcing a family-friendly edited red border clamshell VHS, you might get fooled by the uncut version playing instead of the kids' edit.