MIDNIGHT EXPRESS WITH "THE FUGITIVE." "THE BEACH BOY," "CALL ME DEACON" AND A CAST OF THOUSANDS, well...

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Drama critics, last month we did our reprise of THE FUGITIVE casting our own Fr. Adrian Cristobal in the title role vice Harrison Ford.  Escape themes, e.g. Papillon, Steve McQueen 1973; Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman, 1973; and best of all I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Paul Muni, 1932; can be compelling. 

Midnight Express, Brad Davis, 1977, rereleased on DVD 2008; furnishes the raw material upon which today's escape story will be crafted. When the protagonist of Midnight Express found that his four year sentence in a brutal Turkish prison had been judicially extended to 30 years, he decided that his life depended on his escape. Prison slang for escape was "midnight express;" thus the movie's title.

We apparently have our own Midnight Express for priests who have escaped.  

AMERICA’S MOST WANTED

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John Walsh  hosted the very popular TV show, "America's Most Wanted" for more than a quarter century ending about six years ago. The theme of the show was that Walsh used it to develop leads to the whereabouts of fugitives.

Now we have the Church's Most Wanted.