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Starring:
Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly, Louise Latham, Dean Smith, Bill Thurman, Ted Grossman, Jessie Lee Fulton, Harrison Zanuck, A.L. Camp, Kenneth Hudgins, Buster Daniels
Directed By:
Steven Spielberg
Written By:
Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
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The Sugarland Express (1974)
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He took my gun, but he wasn't gonna use it!
What is it about those Texas people? They really went out there in this film based upon a true story. What is significant about the film is not Goldie Hawn's performance as the crazy Ila Fae Dent, who had her child removed from the State, but the fact that it was Steven Spielberg's first theatrical release. It would not be until one year later with Jaws that he would become a household name.
The movie is 95% on the highway, as Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn) breaks her husband out of pre-release four months early to head to Sugarland to retrieve the child the State had removed nine months earlier.
If you can imagine, there were, at one time 150 police cars following them in a stolen DPS patrol car in the pre-OJ low-speed chase. Towards the end, about 150 more cars joined in as crazy Texans joined the parade. It became a real parade once they got to Sugarland as the High School band joined in and the whole town, including, I imagine the Bug Man, Tom DeLay, turned out.
It was silly, funny, and a good road movie.
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