Picks and Pans Review: Midnight Express

UPDATED 09/22/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/22/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (9-11:30 p.m. ET)

Brad Davis stars as an American college student whose amateurish attempt to smuggle hashish lands him in a brutal Turkish prison. The rock-hard acting (Randy Quaid and John Hurt are standouts) and jackhammer action made the movie the sleeper hit of 1978.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22