Cover is VG+ (shelf wear) Record is VG+ (looks barely played) Labels are clean Visually Graded Side 1 1 Chase 8:24 2 Love's Theme 5:33 3 (Theme From) Midnight Express 4:39 Side 2 1 Istanbul Blues (Vocal) 3:17 2 The Wheel 2:24 3 Istanbul Opening 4:43 4 Cacaphoney 2:58 5 (Theme From) Midnight Express (Vocal) 4:47 Soundtrack to Alan Parker's 1978 Columbia Pictures movie "Midnight Express" starring Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, John Hurt and Billy Hayes. Produced by Alan Marshall and David Puttnam. Based on a true story of Bill Hayes, from the same titled book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer. Screenplay by Oliver Stone. The movie won 2 Oscars in 1979 (Best Writing, Best Music). This was Moroder's first movie score. He would go on to do the soundtrack to The NeverEnding Story. Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film directed by Alan Parker, produced by David Puttnam and written by Oliver Stone, based on Billy Hayes' 1977 non-fiction book Midnight Express. It stars Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, Peter Jeffrey and John Hurt. Hayes was a young American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. The film deviates from the book's accounts of the story, especially in its portrayal of the Turkish characters, and some have criticized this version, including Billy Hayes himself. Later, both Stone and Hayes expressed their regret about how Turkish people were portrayed in the film. The film's title is prison slang for an inmate's escape attempt.