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...deluge began early. Leverett fumbled on their first play from scrimmage and Kirkland's Peter Robbins recovered. Brad Lown powered his way into the endzone from the eight to cap a 40-yd. march and K-House led, 7-0, with just four minutes gone in the game...
Kirkland scored in the first quarter when fullback Brad Lown took in a 5-yd. scamper to cap a 65-yd. drive...
...game's final score came late in the game when J.V. cornerback Dave Bindelglass picked off a Jon Ealy aerial and ran it back 40 yards for a touchdown. Brad Lown added his third extra point and the J.V. had their 21-0 victory...
...Billy Hayes we first meet is, by any measure, an unlikely hero. His self-image is a familiar and obnoxious one: cocky, fool-hardy American punk bopping around the Mideast with his girl and his stash. Played by Brad Davis in his flashy feature film debut, Billy comes off as a hopeless amateur in the contraband business, the kind of sunglassed shmuck who chews gum and smokes a Winston at the same time while a suspicious customs agent checks his bags. Naturally, Billy does not read the papers; otherwise he would have known about the tight security checks at Istanbul...
There is a raw, uncontrolled quality about Midnight Express that accounts for the film's magnetic pull on the viewer. The violence is graphic and uncompromising, mindful of no boundaries imposed by discretion or "good taste," whatever that might be. Brad Davis' performance as Billy reinforces this no-holds-barred quality, and in virtually any type of movie, the acting job he delivers might have served as an embarassing distraction. But Midnight Express was just the right film for a newcomer like Davis willing to throw himself into the lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished...