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Rating director alan parker screenplay oliver stone book. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became a worldwide bestseller and the academy awardwinning blockbuster film of the same name. Midnight express tells the gutwrenching true story of a young ma. Braving a torrential thunderstorm, 15yearold kate shelley crawls across a treacherous railroad bridge to warn an oncoming train of a washout ahead. A vivid recounting of a true story of a young girl in 1881 iowa, told in the format and style of an easy reader. The real billy hayes was arrested by turkey in 1970, were told, and imprisoned on a charge of trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. Free kate shelley and the midnight express worksheets and. After his escape four years later, he told his story in the bestselling book midnight express, which oliver stone and alan parker turned into. She felt it was her duty to inform the station of the danger facing the oncoming train.
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