Tuesday 5 January 2016

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

Midnight Express (1978)


Star Cast
-     Brad Davis, John Hurt, Randy Quaid, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith, Paolo Bonacelli, Mike Kellin, Bo Hopkins, Norbert Weisser
Director
-       Alan Parker
Producer
-       David Puttnam, Alan Marshall
Rating
-       A
Year of Release
-       1978
Category 
-       Hollywood
Genre
-       Crime, Drama, Biography
Movie Gist     
Midnight Express is a movie based on a true story of an American student, Billy Hayes, who is caught while smuggling hashish out of Turkey & is thrown into a Turkish prison. The movie also focusses on his life in the prison, his struggles, the mental & physical torture that he went through & finally the escape; The Great Escape.
The scenes in the movie are brutal & violent; not for the weak-hearted.

MY FAIR LADY

My Fair Lady (1964)


Star Cast
-     Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Jeremy Brett, Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
Director
-       George Cukor
Producer
-       Jack L. Warner
Rating
-       U
Year of Release
-       1964
Category 
-       Hollywood
Genre
-       Romance, Drama, Musical
Movie Gist     
My Fair Lady depicts a flower girl who overhears a snobbish, misogynistic, arrogant professor as he wagers that he can take the flower girl as an assignment & maker her presentable in the high society.