For American football player with the nickname "Sugar Land Express", see Ken Hall (American football).
The Sugarland Express
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by
Hal Barwood
Matthew Robbins
Story by
Steven Spielberg
Hal Barwood
Matthew Robbins
Produced by
Richard D. Zanuck
David Brown
Starring
Goldie Hawn
Ben Johnson
William Atherton
Michael Sacks
Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by
Edward M. Abroms
Verna Fields
Music by
John Williams
Production company
The Zanuck/Brown Company
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
March 30, 1974 (1974-03-30) (New York)[1]
Running time
110 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3 million
Box office
$12 million[2]
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical film directing debut, following the television film Duel (1971).[3] The film follows a woman (Goldie Hawn) and her husband (William Atherton) as they take a police officer (Michael Sacks) hostage and flee across Texas while they try to get to their child before he is placed in foster care. The event partially took place and the film was partially shot in Sugar Land, Texas.[4] Other scenes were filmed in San Antonio, Live Oak, Floresville, Pleasanton, Converse and Del Rio, Texas.[5]
The Sugarland Express marks the first collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams, who has scored all but five of Spielberg's films since; this is the only score he has composed for Spielberg that has never been released as an album, although Williams re-recorded the main theme with Toots Thielemans and the Boston Pops Orchestra for 1991's The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration.[6]
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^Rohan, Linda Sue (2 June 2020). "Caught on camera — spot our hometowns in the movies". WilsonCountyNews.com. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^"Movie Locations of the Great Southwest : The Sugarland Express". Taos Unlimited Movie Locations. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
^"The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration: John Williams Conducts His Classic Scores For the Films of Steven Spielberg". Amazon. 1991. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
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