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The Sugarland Express (1974)

Directed by Steven Spielberg

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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.

Rated PG | Length 110 minutes

Actors

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