The Sugarland Express
- Released on
- Runtime
- 110 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Goldie Hawn
- Ben Johnson
- Michael Sacks
- William Atherton
- Gregory Walcott
- Steve Kanaly
- Louise Latham
- Harrison Zanuck
- A.L. Camp
- Jessie Lee Fulton
- Dean Smith
- Ted Grossman
- Bill Thurman
- Buster Daniels
- James N. Harrell
- Frank Steggall
- Roger Ernest
- Guich Koock
- Merrill Connally
- Gene Rader
- Gordon Hurst
- George Hagy
- Big John Hamilton
- Kenneth Crone
- Charles Conaway
- Robert Golden
- Rudy Robbins
- Charlie Dobbs
- Gene Lively
- John L. Quinlan III
- Ralph E. Horwedel
- Edwin 'Frog' Isbell
- James Robert Allen
- Marianna Clore Blase
- Richard Bright
- Dean Jones
- Harvey Christiansen
Director
- Steven Spielberg
Producers
- Richard D. Zanuck
- David Brown
Screenwriter
- Hal Barwood
- Matthew Robbins
