Overview - The Sugarland Express

Date of release

Genres

  • Crime
  • Drama

Runtime: 110 minutes

Homepage: The Sugarland Express

Budget

$3,000,000.00

Revenue

$12,800,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Universal Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Zanuck/Brown Productions

    Production country United States of America

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.

Cast

  • Name: Goldie Hawn

    Character: Lou Jean Poplin

    Popularity: 22.302

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  • Name: Ben Johnson

    Character: Captain Harlin Tanner

    Popularity: 7.826

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  • Name: Michael Sacks

    Character: Patrolman Maxwell Slide

    Popularity: 2.985

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  • Name: William Atherton

    Character: Clovis Michael Poplin

    Popularity: 10.844

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  • Name: Gregory Walcott

    Character: Patrolman Ernie Mashburn

    Popularity: 2.101

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  • Name: Steve Kanaly

    Character: Patrolman Jessup

    Popularity: 6.753

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  • Name: Louise Latham

    Character: Mrs. Looby

    Popularity: 5.361

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  • Name: Harrison Zanuck

    Character: Baby Langston Poplin

    Popularity: 0.044