A screenplay was adapted by Oliver Stone from the book by Billy Hayes & William Hoffer. Alan Parker directed.

Billy Hayes has acknowledged the inaccuracy of numbers of of the scenes inside the motion picture; he was in a online-security prison, & there are no guard was flushed sequentially for him to escape.

Oliver Stone has apologised to Turkey for this film within 2004 whilst he visited Turkey. He admitted that he did non launder any locate all about a and then known as "true story" of Billy Hayes prior to he wrote a script.

Although a film is placed largely within Turkey, virtually all of the location operate was waste Malta, using local actors along by having occasionally Greeks and Armenians.

It won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score (Giorgio Moroder) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stone), and was nominative for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hurt), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

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