The Sugarland Express
A girl with a great following. Every cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her.
1974 1 hour 50 minutesA girl with a great following. Every cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her.
1974 1 hour 50 minutes
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.
31st March 1974
52 years ago
1 hour 50 minutes
Finishes at 3:39am
$3,000,000 ($21,120,300 today)
Revenue $12,800,000
2 wins & 6 nominations total
6.7/10
87%
65%
66%
71%
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