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THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
by Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1974
Duration: 110'


Lou Jean is a strange girl, but she loves her son: too bad he has been taken away from her and entrusted to a couple in Sugarland, on the Mexico border. Lou Jean convinces her husband to steal a police car, take the driver hostage and cross Texas to go get her child back. Spielberg’s second film, with a wild Goldie Hawn, one hundred police cars and the road lined with crowds cheering her on. A bitter comedy, a forerunner of the wacky Blues Brothers.

Biography

film director

Steven Spielberg

FILMOGRAFIA

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo, 1977), 1941 (1941 - Allarme a Hollywood, 1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (I predatori dell’arca perduta, 1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (E.T. - L’extra-terrestre, 1982), Empire of the Sun (L’impero del sole, 1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indiana Jones e l’ultima crociata, 1989), Always (Always - Per sempre, 1989), Jurassic Park (id., 1993), Schindler’s List (id., 1993), Saving Private Ryan (Salvate il soldato Ryan, 1998), Minority Report (id., 2002), Catch Me If You Can (Prova a prendermi, 2002), The Terminal (id., 2004), War Horse (id., 2011), Lincoln (id., 2012).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Steven Spielberg
soggetto/story
Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
fotografia/cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond
montaggio/film editing
Edward M. Abroms, Verna Fields
musica/music
John Williams
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Goldie Hawn (Lou Jean Poplin), Ben Johnson (cap./capt. Harlin Tanner), Michael Sacks (Maxwell Slide), William Atherton (Clovis Michael Poplin), Louise Latham (Mrs Looby)
produttori/producers
Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
produzione/production
Zanuck-Brown Productions, Universal Pictures
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