The sugarland express appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2. The sugarland express, 1974, c universal a woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together. Financial analysis of the sugarland express 1974 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. In fact this is a great little movie for all kinds of reasons. Hal barwood, matthew robbins, steven spielberg stars. The sugarland express begins and plays for much of its length as a hilarious madcap caper chase comedy. It features goldie hawn, william atherton and ben johnson. Sugarland released their first holiday album, gold and green on october, 2009. The film develops into possibly the slowest ever police chase road movie. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. The scenes at the prerelease facility were filmed at that facility, which is some.
They also abandoned plans to platform the film, which meant starting with just a few theatres in key cities and letting the audience build slowly. The sugarland express 1974 cast and crew moviefone. The sugarland express 1974 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Sugarland express, the on dvd 025192558122 from universal. The sugarland express 1974 married smalltime crooks loujean goldie hawn and clovis poplin william atherton lose their baby to the state of texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get. The sugarland express is very loosely based on the true story in may 1969 of robert and ila faye dent. The sugarland express is the 1974 drama that marked the feature film directorial debut of steven spielberg. Golden goldies after losing their baby son to the state, smalltime crooks hawn and william atherton snatch him right back and go on the run, pitting them against seemingly every law. The actual event took place in 1969, and the young couple involved got a lot of sympathy from the folks along their route. Get the sugarland express dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. The actual event took place in 1969, and the young couple involved got a. Otherwise, the movie remained largely crisp and welldefined.
The 1974 movie starred 70s flavour of the decade goldie hawn, and the lesser known william atherton, who never. The sugarland express is a 1974 american crime drama film cowritten and directed by steven spielberg in his theatrical feature directorial debut. Even though slide becomes the couples friend, the law is bent on capturing its criminal quarry. Gallery of 16 movie poster and cover images for the sugarland express 1974. The sugarland express where to stream and watch decider. Sugarlands first live dvdcd live on the inside was released exclusively through walmart stores on august 4, 2009. One of two feature films starring actress goldie hawn, which both debuted in the. After the success of duel which was really a tv movie sugarland express spielbergs first feature film flopped at the box office, though it received a reasonably warm critical response.
The sugarland express 1974 synopsis excon lou jean poplin wants to get her son out of foster care, and she wants it now. The sugarland express 1 hours and 50 minutes movie 1974 loujean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. Desperate to prevent their son from being placed into foster care, lou jean poplin forces her spouse, clovis, to escape from a texas prison farm, stealing a car in. The sugarland express 1974 posters the movie database. Although her husband has only a few months to go before hes released from prison, she convinces him to break out of his lowsecurity prerelease facility. Despite a cast with two academy award winners goldie hawn as ila fae and ben johnson as capt. Loujean gets clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage.
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Jul 06, 2016 rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. Find out where the sugarland express is streaming, if the sugarland express is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. The sugarland express 1974 steven spielberg synopsis. It was the return to the screen for oscar winner goldie hawn, and the. The sugarland express, movie, 1974 pictures provided by. This article claimed that the movie was setin and filmed in sugarland, texas, but this is not correct. It is about a husband and wife trying to outrun the law and was based on a reallife incident.
He can take a simple, relatively conventional story, put some heart, some fun, some intrigue, and some interest into it, to make it just an overall great piece of entertainment. But things dont go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. The sugarland express is not terribly original bonnie and clyde, badlands and the getaway are indelibly marked in its dna but shows an already dazzling young filmmaker honing his skills and. Watching the movie, it is clear that they went through several other towns, so the setting is only partially sugarland. Sugarland express, the 1974 movie clip weve got a bad hombre texas police captain tanner ben johnson takes over the chase for excon lou jean goldie hawn and escapee husband clovis william atherton, whove taken deputy slide michael sacks hostage, aiming to get their son out of state custody, in steven spielbergs the sugarland express, 1974. It stars goldie hawn, ben johnson, william atherton, and michael sacks. Staring goldie hawn, ben johnson, william atherton and michael sacks. As with two of spielbergs other 70s films, jaws and close.
Mar 27, 2018 sugarland express was the first real movie that put steven spielberg on the map as it showed us everything that hes great at. The sugarland express merges the menincars dynamics of spielbergs breakthrough tv movie duel with a rippedfrom the headlines tale of two holy fools played impressively but with just a little too much gusto by goldie hawn and william atherton who will stop at nothing to get their child back. Despite the age and low budget of the production, the picture looked good, sharpness was solid, as i noticed only a smidgen of softness in a couple of wider shots. Miller, the first feature film by 30yearold steven spielberg laid an egg at the box office.
Um ihre familie wieder zu vereinen verhilft lou jean. With goldie hawn, ben johnson, michael sacks, william atherton. Steven spielberg in the sugarland express 1974 steven spielberg and. The real story behind the sugarland express the courier. Not having faith in the picture, however, they switched to a wider opening, a sign at the time that they were just trying to burn it. Being based upon a true story is a feather in the films cap.
He should have made films more along the lines of duel, jaws and the above film. This is a trailer i produced years ago for interactive tv network intertainer. Thats the story of the sugarland express, steven spielbergs first theatrical feature, and, although its based on a real incident, like so many things in texas, it seems like a fantasy anyway. Display as images display as list make and model make and year year category importancerole date added new ones first episode appearance ep. Robert bobby dent, 22, was passing through port arthur at 2 a. Murder on the sugarland express has everything that i look for in a great story. Sugarland express was the first real movie that put steven spielberg on the map as it showed us everything that hes great at. I laughed, i dried, i was on the edge of my seat, in short, i was gripped. Instead, they pushed the sugarland express back to february 1974. Married smalltime crooks loujean and clovis poplin lose their baby to the state of texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. On july 2, 2009, a performance that sugarland recorded for soundstage debuted on many pbs channels. The sugarland express merges the menincars dynamics of spielbergs breakthrough tv movie duel with a rippedfromtheheadlines tale of two holy fools played impressively but with just a little too much gusto by goldie hawn and william atherton who will stop at nothing to get their child back. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to. The scenes at the prerelease facility were filmed at that facility, which is some distance away from sugarland.
The sugarland express is one of those movies that proves you can have all the right pieces, but still not complete the puzzle. There are lots of great set pieces along the way, and the cinematography is outstanding throughout. Sugarland express, the internet movie firearms database. It might have helped ticket sales if the script had stayed true to the real story. Theyre both only 25, but theyve served time, and now the state has taken away their twoyearold. Fellow fans of steven spielberg advised me to see sugarland express, so i bought the dvd. The sugarland express, 1974, c universal a woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. The sugarland express 1974 cast and crew married smalltime crooks loujean goldie hawn and clovis poplin william atherton lose their baby to the state of texas and resolve to do whatever it. The sugarland express dvd 1974 spielberg goldie hawn, ben johnson 5 out of 5 stars 9 product ratings 9 product ratings the sugarland express dvd 1974 spielberg goldie hawn, ben johnson. He can take a simple, relatively conventional story, put some heart, some fun, some intrigue, and some interest into it. One of two feature films starring actress goldie hawn, which both debuted in the year 1974, and which were both produced by producers david brown and richard d. Based on a true story, the film stars william atherton and goldie hawn as a desperate couple who kidnap a texas trooper and become instant celebrities as texas law enforcement chases them across the state. Murder on the sugarland express audiobook by angie fox. Nov 18, 2012 the sugarland express, 1974, c universal a woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son.
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