The Sugarland Express

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The Sugarland Express (1974)

PG 03/31/1974 (US) Crime, Drama, Comedy 1h 50m

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A girl with a great following. Every cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her.

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Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Steven Spielberg

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Matthew Robbins

Screenplay, Story
Hal Barwood

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Goldie Hawn

Lou Jean Poplin
William Atherton

Clovis Poplin
Ben Johnson

Captain Tanner
Michael Sacks

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Gregory Walcott

Mashburn
Steve Kanaly

Jessup
Louise Latham

Mrs. Looby
Harrison Zanuck

Baby Langston
A.L. Camp

Mr. Nocker
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A review by DanDare

60%

Written by DanDare on June 1, 2020

Steven Spielberg's first proper cinema movie has some great photography from Vilmos Zsigmond.

The tone is uncertain. A road movie, a tragic comedy with car pile ups that is based on true facts.

Lou Jean Sparrow Poplin (Goldie Hawn) takes her husband Clovis (William Atherton) out of a minimum security prison just weeks before his eventual release.

All to save their child who has been taken away and ready to put up for adoption. They kidnap a police officer which leads to them being pursued by the police and the media.

Goldie Hawn is spiky as Lou Jean but she is also stupidly impulsiv... read the rest.

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