Goofs for
Midnight Express (1978) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Boom operator visible chasing[?] as he climbs a path by the prison wall.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The "fez" hat worn by several Turkish men in the movie has been extremely rare in Turkey since 1925 when it was abolish by Kemal Ataturk (the leader and founder of the Republic of Turkey) in an attempt to "westernize" the country. This was one of the reform actions of those times.
  
  
• Factual errors: Muslim prayer is depicted incorrectly. Muslim prayer has definite steps and rules, and there's always a leader to the prayer when more than two are praying.
  
  

• Anachronisms: The movie is set in 1970. When Billy Hayes makes a visit to the toilet at the airport to wash his face, there is a poster on the wall showing a shot of the Bosphorus Bridge which was built in 1973.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Turkish spoken by ostensible Turks portrayed in the film is uniformly broken. The actors are obviously not Turkish; sometimes the language is so broken it is difficult for native speakers to understand.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Susan goes to visit Bill, it's possible to see a crew member reflected in the glass.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: The plate on the police truck carrying Billy to prison after he's caught trying to escape has four errors. First, the blank between the alpha characters and the numeric characters that follow is missing. Second, in the year 1970 when the movie is set, plates in Istanbul had not yet reached YY (they advance chronologically from AA to ZZ). Third, plates in Istanbul are framed with a thick line of a color same as the letters - the plate in the movie has no frame. Four, most seriously, police vehicle plates have white characters on a black background - in the movie, the plate is just the opposite.
  
  

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