The Sugarland Express
A girl with a great following. Every cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her.
19741h 50m
- Crime
- Drama
TMDB rating 6.6TMDB488 votes
Overview
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.
- Directed by
- Steven Spielberg
- Written by
- Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
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Cast
Goldie Hawn
Lou Jean Poplin
William Atherton
Clovis Poplin
Ben Johnson
Captain Tanner
Michael Sacks
Slide
Gregory Walcott
Mashburn
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $3M
- Revenue
- $12.8M
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company
