I'm actually watching Midnight Express right now and I was curious to know where Billy Hayes is today. This is when I found this interview. Wow!
@TheRuthdobson2 жыл бұрын
Me too, I'm just reading the book
@michellerene9512 жыл бұрын
@@TheRuthdobson Ooohhh I heard it's way better(or different)than the movie. Enjoy!
@suphihayta8523 Жыл бұрын
He is a liar. Watch his recent interviews.
@NKCS7 Жыл бұрын
@@michellerene951 The book is far better, I don’t understand why they changed so much in the film.
@michellerene951 Жыл бұрын
@@NKCS7 The books always seem to be better.
@dalemmmm2 жыл бұрын
Wow I really respect him being so honest about everything!
@hannesstuber222 Жыл бұрын
he looks real honest doesn't he`? Check out Turkish newspaper of 1970 where they write that he got busted for having heroin with him.
@Eliminator555511 ай бұрын
He doesn't accurately portray Turkish society back then or now. I've spent a good deal of time in Turkey and also spoken with an acquaintance that lived there with his family off-base during the entirety of his father's deployment there in the 70s. He described Turkey being much the same back then as it is now, which is only serves to further paint Billy's portrayal of Turkish society as inaccurate.
@Victor-jv1cn6 ай бұрын
@@Eliminator5555 shut up you tolerant liberal ! Billy portrayed Turkish people as he experienced them and yes of course his experience was horrible so his depiction of the turkish people is negative. I'm sure that while you're defending turkish people, in the same time, you say that all cops are bastards or all conservatives must be murdered. If you lived in Europe in contact with the turkish community such as I do, you wouldn't be choked of the bad depiction of these people in the movie, but of course you probably live in a rich wealthy town far from violence and poverty.
@krbn804 ай бұрын
@@Eliminator5555 Both he and Oliver Stone recently declared it was all an exaggeration. It’s Stone’s habit to exaggerate anyway, but it seems Hayes also liked the opportunity to become famous by the drama. And of course did it by using Turks, the favourite scapegoat of the Christian world. As a result, both of them apologized from Turks and said they are sorry for showing them like that.
@twistoffate47912 жыл бұрын
He is very intelligent & articulate & once he warmed up a bit, expressed his feelings with an admirable transparency.
@Beneaththeglitterball3 жыл бұрын
This is a wonderful interview - as many from the archive - thank you so much x
@zakkthemaniac032911 ай бұрын
Do what you like, But know what your doing! Love it
@efraingonzalez7312 жыл бұрын
I was 11 when the movie came out, and my mother took us to see it. I never did what he did after watching what he went through.
@suphihayta8523 Жыл бұрын
This is the purpose of the American state. Write a fake script. Scare people. Hollywood is exactly that. Bill apologized to the Turkish people. He said that the movie has nothing to do with reality.
@williamrowlett740 Жыл бұрын
Great. The film should be a deterrent to kids thinking they can sell drugs the easy way and going overseas to get their product.
@vinnyvincent28626 ай бұрын
The music played during the chase scene at the beginning is the intro music to Art Bell's Radio show ! r.i.p. Art Bell 😢❤🙏
@thomaspenman41012 жыл бұрын
I loved midnight express i love the ending music brilliant❤❤👍
@christwisted11 ай бұрын
Phenomenal film. A tough watch, shows how tough a person can be.
@peakybennett86573 жыл бұрын
I always wondered what happened to jimmy booth. I liked that character. I'd like to think he got out and lived a good life afterwards!
@francaisediesachsenliebtsa86793 жыл бұрын
And I , I always wanted to know what happened for Max ❤ I love this character, and would like if like the movie, Billy can keep promise and save him
@JUVI95962 жыл бұрын
There was no jimmy booth. He was based on a another prisoner named Harvey Bell. Max was paroled in 1976
@capncake88372 жыл бұрын
@@JUVI9596 What about Bell?
@mariastewart9820 Жыл бұрын
@@capncake8837 yes,im wondering too !
@Jeff-o-Lee2 жыл бұрын
Hayes made 3 successful trips to Turkey smuggling hash. He was pinched on the 4th trip.
@tlennox29917 ай бұрын
Finally someone says it..thanks
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
How much did he make? Profit wise?
@Stu-SB2 ай бұрын
@@Reverands420they smoked all the profits
@1crackedup2 жыл бұрын
I was a student in Rome, Italy. Some friends went to Turkey to see him! What a case!
@dg90153 ай бұрын
Really?
@tylerhudson95382 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. Great 📣 sound all things considered!
@samsmith42163 жыл бұрын
Great interview. I wonder what kind of person Billy Hayes would be without his prison detainment.
@denizliberal3 жыл бұрын
He was a drug dealer.
@samsmith42163 жыл бұрын
@@denizliberal of Hashish... big deal... today it's probably not even a serious crime in this country
@uncletony62103 жыл бұрын
@@denizliberal so are all M.D.s...
@alenelevin17573 жыл бұрын
It was great to see billy.
@lekunberriko14 күн бұрын
Seems a very good man.
@revanelson88103 жыл бұрын
Wow! I like his hair.
@TopxGee9 ай бұрын
Midnight express is now on Netflix 😎
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
Isn't it a movie? Netflix only has series
@dora19802 ай бұрын
@@Reverands420 No it has movies too.
@piznoctsauo81412 жыл бұрын
The interviewer was in 1978. Hayes was in 2020.
@sydneysheppard49792 жыл бұрын
He's a legend!!! I'd love to meet him an smoke a joint with him an pick his brain!! You rock billy!!!
@stephanielouise24422 жыл бұрын
THIS GUY IS SO INSPIRATIONAL! SO TOGETHER FOR ONE SO YOUNG. MAYBE HE SHOULD PUT THE SHAME WHERE IT BELONGS...NOT ON HIMSELF ON THOSE WHO CREATED HIS HELL. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR CONSCIENSNESS.
@usa26point2mileman2 жыл бұрын
He thought security had tightened by 1978. Can you imagine 2022?
@wendelldallas75723 жыл бұрын
1:53 - I feel like every American twenty something has that "James Bond image" of themselves and they learn very quickly that is not the reality of things, some harsher more than others
@AZ-kr6ff Жыл бұрын
Ohhh Billy!
@theoriginalthinker91992 жыл бұрын
Listening to this interview, I found myself thinking about Brittney Griner.
@m.emilyonglatco8266 Жыл бұрын
Released today for prisoner exchange.
@cultfilmfreakreviews Жыл бұрын
now we know he'd smuggled hash successfully THREE times before they got him
@chancelearson19499 ай бұрын
RIP Bill Hayes 🙏🕊🕊🕊
@jibson20036 ай бұрын
He's not dead. Billy Hayes is very much alive and active. Brad Davies the actor who portrayed him in the movie died at 41.
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
@@jibson2003he died two days in OZONE PARK, NY. Fentanyl overdose... He's a real American hero in my eyes
@robertrobinson37882 жыл бұрын
If he got caught in America with that much hash at that time 1970 he would have gotten 20yrs in prison
@capncake88372 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Turkey was actually trying to make an example out of Billy after being criticized by Nixon for not doing enough to stop drug smugglers.
@Bertrand146 Жыл бұрын
@@capncake8837 You're naive, it goes beyond drug. US Air Force bases and ballistic missiles in Turkey, it rings a bell ?
@gutz3237 ай бұрын
I admire his honesty. Not many heterosexual men, would admit to having a short homosexual relationship, especially in 1978, with the attitude that, some things that happened in prison should stay in prison.
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
THAT IS AWESOME.... We all have these feelings but not many can openly admit it! WHAT A WARRIOR/MAN
@cameronpickard74562 жыл бұрын
he seems smart and legit
@matttodd78012 ай бұрын
I was so crazy over that book as a teenage kid in the mid eighties I actually tried to call him on the phone-didn't work, my mom busted my ass for the charges too
@Kotikjeff Жыл бұрын
Very interesting interview. I see a scoundrel who got caught at the airport who is now a completely different, honest speaking man who has lived a life of horrors and survived.
@butterflymustfly_1232 Жыл бұрын
I see the same. He wasn't a hero. He was a punk but he acknowledged his wrong and changed
@RoyChadwick5110 ай бұрын
STAY CLEAR OF ANY DRUG ACTIVITY .
@tally16049 ай бұрын
Gotta give him major props for not trying to distsnce himself or paint in negative light hid same sex - definiteky not gay - relationships in prison. That was 1978, when even the liberal media gave him hell for it.
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
For men sadly it's pathetic... For women you are considered very strange if you aren't attracted to other women !!
@libbyvalley2 жыл бұрын
Ck out the interview Billy just did with the Shaun Attwood Show. 💥 Just WOW!
@alenelevin17572 жыл бұрын
He is my favorite ARIES.
@raygreen59262 жыл бұрын
Many people forget about a young Brit called Timothy Davey who was arrested for drugs in Turkey in 1970. He met Billy Hayes. He was only 14 years of age. He was released in 1974. I wonder where he is now
@jackspring77092 жыл бұрын
If I'm remembering correctly Hayes did mention him a few times in his book.
@raygreen59262 жыл бұрын
@@jackspring7709 He did mention him in his book. The thing is after 1976 Timothy Davey just seemed to vanish into thin air. Nobody seems to know what became of him.
@jackspring77092 жыл бұрын
@@raygreen5926 Ah. I see. Sometimes I do wonder what happened to those guys. I didn't even know that Max had got out, tbh.
@Reverands4204 ай бұрын
HES ALIVE AND WELL, he is currently OLD and living in Liverpool England, with his same sex Turkish husband
@hawmandd3 жыл бұрын
From his archive video says stuff that are 360 degree different from his latest interviews.
@AlexSaurel9 күн бұрын
I was wondering which? Can you give exemp? Some how he was on film amd book promotion mode
@nolagospeltracts826410 ай бұрын
The John Holmes Story starring Billy Hayes.
@FOCOSOITALIANO3 жыл бұрын
I don't understand,he is smugglers and drug smugglers, do they blame those who arrested him? Does anyone know what happens if you get caught with 2 kilos of drugs at the airport in the USA?
@MikeLopresti3602 жыл бұрын
He smuggled hashish, which by our time nobody even cares about. That's besides the point anyway, do you really think he deserves to be treated as trash for 5 years just because he smuggled an illegal substance? The guards behaved like barbarians, much worse than the actual crime that was committed by Billy Hayes.
@FOCOSOITALIANO2 жыл бұрын
@@MikeLopresti360 I think the guards in prison in America are very kind)) this novie black propaganda movie has already admitted that it has nothing to do with reality Bill Heyes
@FOCOSOITALIANO2 жыл бұрын
@@MikeLopresti360 If you want to see barbarians, look at Guantanamo, my dear friend.
@inthezone41232 жыл бұрын
@@FOCOSOITALIANO How many Americas will allow themselves to become aware of this?
@RaiderJay90922 жыл бұрын
@@MikeLopresti360 "I'm not up on all that. A drugs a drug seems to me."
@barrylufc2648 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where max and Jimmy are today I can’t find anything about them
@robertrobinson37882 жыл бұрын
How is his British cell mate these days.
@radiorob75433 жыл бұрын
I can't hear it!!!
@robertrobinson37882 жыл бұрын
I can't hear it either...
@radiorob75432 жыл бұрын
@@robertrobinson3788 Cool name
@DavidBarnwell876tkdja2 жыл бұрын
audio?
@5thdimension9542 жыл бұрын
The audio didn’t transpose well, did it?
@jerryaldini4535 Жыл бұрын
Did he get the hash back?
@marianavarro3111 Жыл бұрын
Some lessons are learned from the stupid mistakes that we make and his situation remains me of Brittney Grinder the Russian prisoner. 🤔👍
@humanbeing5300 Жыл бұрын
Very wise advice
@sekainiheiwa3650 Жыл бұрын
Florida LA or Mexico wasn’t closer then turkey from NYC?😅
@paudsmcmack31172 жыл бұрын
Too bad people dont look like this anymore
@alenel-rp3ri Жыл бұрын
Billy, you get better with age.
@glenknapke6771 Жыл бұрын
Saw Midnight Express on TV while in JR College I didn't have a High School Diploma later got it to enlist US ARMY journalism SUOMI Jr college law enforcement Hancock Michigan the Upper Peninsula Did Well First Semester 60 years old now all I remember about those days are Shakespeare & Russian Literature book Purchased & read by me store Retail there The Russians forgot the Author Paperback probably a B average me in curriculum @ time
@cameronpickard74562 жыл бұрын
i feel sorry for max hope he came sround
@jibson20036 ай бұрын
Sound is terrible.
@davido3026Ай бұрын
General advise: never get involved with any illegal drugs or danaging subsrances, ever!!!
@Ironheart736 ай бұрын
The real Billy Hayes smuggled hash out of turkey 2 to 3 times, before he got caught. This is why they sought to extend his sentence. He also had a homosexual relationship in prison. The details of how he escaped in the film, was purely fiction. Nobody got killed. In fact the movie demonized the Turkish people so much, that Hayes had to eventually return to Turkey and apologize
@jimguittardАй бұрын
He looks a bit like John Holmes...
@glenknapke6771 Жыл бұрын
Went once to the Boy Scouts w my semi homeless mentally ill Father didn't follow up with them
@glenknapke6771 Жыл бұрын
Raised on 8 MILE DETROIT Michigan shined shoes in bars door to door greeting card salesperson Detroit Newspaper Delivery Boy Free Press Paper Boy
@amenolife-b1p6 ай бұрын
even they had not had educated dogs ?
@alenelevin17572 жыл бұрын
I read the book and the movie still scares me .
@glenknapke6771 Жыл бұрын
Second Semester JR College started Alcohol Use more heavily MARIJUANA was nothing new to me as a kid smoked 1 small bowl black tar Opium
@RememberMe123-b4b3 жыл бұрын
Ya gotta wonder how he disguised himself as a Turkish cop when he escaped.
@RememberMe123-b4b3 жыл бұрын
@Hamster don't understand, explain.
@beyoursman3 жыл бұрын
That was in the movie, in his book, he escaped thru the water. Google it.
@josephalexander45613 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahaha
@karanara67402 жыл бұрын
He escaped from Imrali. It's an island prison. He stole a dingy
@jack-dy7cx2 жыл бұрын
He stole a bus to escape
@ADAMSIXTIES Жыл бұрын
11:00 Bobbie asks the dumbest questions
@karanara67402 жыл бұрын
His story has full of holes. He screwed up and said Max is dead. He sounds like he is playing a part. I believe he was part of a propaganda against Turkey but he didn't really know that he was. His recent interviews are full of apologies to Turkish people
@b0leg232 жыл бұрын
he can't make up for the damage he caused. Lying son of a slvt
@JohnORourke.2 жыл бұрын
Gay for the stay.
@AM-np3hf2 жыл бұрын
and?
@toygardadas11882 ай бұрын
Bu adama nasil ulasabilirim
@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied8 ай бұрын
Billy deserved to be locked up.
@sharonrigs7999 Жыл бұрын
What he said about Max is so true, opiate abuse kills your soul. It's crazy that now, I can walk 5 min to the store and buy legal hash 😂
@hannesstuber222 Жыл бұрын
Max' name was Hans and he was Dutch. He stayed 8 years for having a pound of hash in his bag at the border.
@teoteo3522 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if he turned gay because he lost self respect in there as he mentioned previously.
@kevingoeminne59225 ай бұрын
Turkey is not europe and to be fair even then a kilo of hasj in all real European country's isn't that bad mayby 4 months...
@dora19802 ай бұрын
Turkey is in Asia , it's not in Europe but in the '70s and even now you would go to jail if you try to smuggle drugs in Europe.
@yearism Жыл бұрын
Professional liar.
@toygardadas11882 ай бұрын
Babam afina bu filmi dava edecegim
@danielbisson8032 Жыл бұрын
billy hayes was gay
@laxer1232 жыл бұрын
he was a liar and apologized decades later
@teoteo3522 Жыл бұрын
What did he lie about?
@teoteo3522 Жыл бұрын
What did he lie about?
@teoteo3522 Жыл бұрын
about what
@suphihayta8523 Жыл бұрын
@@teoteo3522 He said the movie had nothing to do with reality. He said that the guards were helpful and good people and that he had many Turkish friends in the prison. The movie is a typical Hollywood black propaganda job.