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	Essays \| The Peter Panning of Steven Spielberg - Part 1
		After Duel, the other Spielberg protagonists quickly fall into line: Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) of Sugarland Express is a convict henpecked into escaping from a minimum-security prison; en route to rescuing his baby son from unworthy adoptive parents, he soon has a caravan of police trailing along the road behind him.
		Part of the reason for Sugarland's tame temperament was that it was made at Universal, the Hollywood major that most nearly defined the term "mainstream" during the Seventies.
		To be sure, Sugarland did not originate within the Universal bureaucracy; it has an original story by Spielberg and contemporaries Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, who wrote the screenplay, and it is graced with a buoyancy that seems the natural manifestation of youthful enthusiasm.
	www.henrysheehan.com /essays/stuv/spielberg-1.html (5227 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - Sugarland Express
		Anarchy as lack of control is manifest in Spielberg's Sugarland Express, based on an actual l969 incident when the escaped convict Robert Samuel Dent and his wife Ila Faye drove across Texas to reclaim their child from his adoptive parents.
		Sugarland Express is imbued with a sense of fatalism--people acting according to biological instincts, lacking awareness and control over what they are doing.
		But like Bonnie and Clyde, Sugarland Express is a disguised Western: the fugitives stand in for the solitary Westerners (what has remained of them), and the procession of police cars is a modern, technological version of the posse in classic Westerns.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?action=13&articleID=2165 (946 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - The Sugarland Express
		A long convoy of police vehicles and media trucks forms as they head for Sugarland, negotiating with veteran cop Tanner (Ben Johnson) at every stop of the way as their story becomes a news sensation in the state, the roadside filliing with well-wishers voicing their support for the Poplins’ quest.
		Sugarland Express has a convincing, documentary atmosphere, with its well-chosen gallery of apparently non-professional bit-players and extras.
		After Sugarland, he appeared in The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover (1977), Hanover Street, The Amityville Horror (both 1979), Split Image (1982) and The House of God (1984), as well as four TV movies made between 1974 and 1984.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/sugarland.html (549 words)

	DVD Review - The Sugarland Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Step by step during the long trip to Sugarland we learn that they are not bad people in the common sense of the world, but more victims of their own circumstance, and all they care about is their baby and the possibility to lead a regular life somewhere away from all this.
		Universal Home Entertainment is presenting "The Sugarland Express" in its original widescreen aspect ratio on this DVD.
		"The Sugarland Express" is a fascinating move that is often overlooked in Steven Spielberg’s career as it is overshadowed by his gigantic successes that followed later.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_sugarland_express.shtml (975 words)

	Sugarland Express (1974)
		The Sugarland Express is based on the true story of Lou Jean Poplin, who kidnapped a Texas State Trooper and led the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption.
		Express clearly adopts the anti-establishment tone of the era, as it sides with the rebels.
		With The Sugarland Express, Steven Spielberg fans can finally complete their DVD collections, as it’s the final film of his to come out on the format.
	www.dvdmg.com /sugarlandexpress.shtml (1245 words)

	Sugarland Express The - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sugarland Express, The, motion picture based on a true story about a young couple who hijack a police car and try to get their son back from his...
		Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at California State College at Long Beach (now California State University at Long Beach).
		Warranty, in U.S. law of contracts, an undertaking expressed or implied, given by one contracting party to another, that a fact alleged with respect...
	encarta.msn.com /Sugarland_Express_The.html (117 words)

	"Sugarland Express" by Judith and John Hess
		THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, one of the recent "rural-couple-on-the-run" movies, vivisects the living American dream, reveals the class conflict at the base of our society, and bares the complex of fetishes, illusions, and fears by which we live.
		But THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS is, in fact, a strangely attenuated collection of tragicomic events which never fully integrate, and this lack of integration helps us see what is inside the film.
		What other reviewers have called "callousness" or "condescension" on the part of the director seems to be the ironic stance he has assumed to mask his deep-felt con-fusion with regard to his characters, their activities, and the structure within which police and outlaws both function.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC2folder/sugexpress.html (2001 words)

	USATODAY.com - On the sweet Sugarland express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sugarland is made up of three veterans of Atlanta's thriving folk-rock scene.
		The sweet spot: Both Sugarland and Billy Pilgrim got their record deals as the result of showcases at Nashville's 12th and Porter nightclub.
		Sweet dreams are made of this: Folk-rockers often can't make the transition to mainstream country, but Sugarland had built a huge buzz in Nashville before signing with Mercury last year, based mostly on original songs and their regional following.
	www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2004-11-01-sugarland_x.htm (564 words)

	The Sugarland Express (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It would not be until one year later with Jaws that he would become a household name.
		The movie is 95% on the highway, as Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn) breaks her husband out of pre-release four months early to head to Sugarland to retrieve the child the State had removed nine months earlier.
		It became a real parade once they got to Sugarland as the High School band joined in and the whole town, including, I imagine the Bug Man, Tom DeLay, turned out.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072226 (532 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Sugarland Express, The / DVD-Video
		This trait has been demonstrated in the human and often used as the plot for a film but rarely as well as it is done in The Sugarland Express.
		That B+ is solely for the film itself and the fact that the transfer and sound are about 30% better than the laserdisc released in the early 1990's, which I watched until it dry rotted.
		Measured artistically against: Jaws, Close Encounters, and 1941 -- Sugarland Express is the finest example of this director's artistic integrity at that time.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=607158&partner_id=28174990 (314 words)

	Clewiston Chamber Of Commerce In Clewiston, Florida on Lake Okeechobee
		Sugarland Tours, operated by the Clewiston Chamber of Commerce, offers two premier tours--a heritage/agriculture event and a Lake Okeechobee Tour.
		Come aboard our 24-passenger Sugarland Express (or bring a larger group on your own bus) for an exciting and informative 4 1/2 hour heritage and agriculture tour*.
		Sugarland Tours are available in conjunction with the harvest season which runs mid-October through March.
	www.clewiston.org /sugarlandtours.htm (295 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Sugarland Express
		Jaws, The Sugarland Express comes off at first pass as a low-key and inauspicious debut feature, and one not particularly Spielbergian.
		The Sugarland Express wades neck deep in every stereotype of Southerners as blissfully ignorant, gun-toting boobs, but the fine performances of its actors elevate the script's cookie-cutter characterizations.
		The Sugarland Express is also fascinating as a retrospective glimpse into the early career of a filmmaker who subsequently changed the medium.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/sugarlandexpress.php (1186 words)

	DVD review of Sugarland Express, The - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With "The Sugarland Express", Spielberg had to work with dozens of cars and trucks across vast expanses.
		The movie's most obvious "little boy lost" is, of course, the baby living with foster parents, and the most obvious chase/quest is the parents' desire to be re-united with their child.
		While "The Sugarland Express" was a box-office failure and found only a few supporters amongst movie critics (although the legendary Pauline Kael was one of its champions), I'm sure that Zanuck and Brown saw the artistic abilities of their young director.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/sugarlandexpressthe/12534/2308 (1137 words)

	Movie DVD for The Sugarland Express
		The Sugarland Express is one of those movies that proves you can have all the right pieces, but still not complete the puzzle.
		Based on true events, The Sugarland Express tells the story of Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton), two hard timers who had their baby taken by welfare while they were in their respective prisons.
		Overall as a movie The Sugarland Express is a bit of a miss, despite having great talent and the beginnings of a legendary director.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=622 (1209 words)

	Sugarland Lyrics Photos New Album MP3
		But even the members of Sugarland themselves are slightly shocked by how fresh-sounding and unfailingly optimistic the songs they make together are.
		The Sugarland lead singer uses words like “hyper-stimulation” and “super-dynamic” to describe how she and musical partner Kristian Bush live on the fly, racing...
		Sugarland gets ready to ride The sophomore album from Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush doesn't live up to Twice the Speed of Life, but offers some rollicking good fun nonetheless.
	www.sugarland-music.com (711 words)

	The Sugarland Express : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I first saw The Sugarland Express when I was eight years old and I liked this movie and I enjoyed the chase scenes and the acting from the entire cast was good especially Goldie Hawn and I highly recommend this movie!
		I first saw The Sugarland Express when I was 8 years old and I liked this movie and I enjoyed the chase scenes and the acting from the entire cast was good especially Goldie Hawn and I highly recommend this movie!
		THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS was not only Spielberg´s feature film debut, but it was also the film that turned Goldie Hawn´s career around from that of purely comic to one of dramatic as well.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00028HBIE.html (992 words)

	Sugarland Express Movie Poster
		Sugarland Express is the true story (apparently) of a girl who took on all of Texas, and, almost won.
		The plotline in Sugarland Express has a young woman who convinces her jailbird husband, who is about to be legally parolled in a few months, to immediately break out of prison, so that they can kidnap their child out of foster care in Sugarland, Texas.
		At any rate, since Sugarland Express is a Steven Spielberg film, it really is pretty well done....gee, it's too bad he quit making these fun little B-grade action flicks.
	www.sd455.com /moviesugarland.htm (419 words)

	Home Theater Forum - HTF Review: The Sugarland Express (Recommended!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Perhaps audiences were not attracted to the film because it is somewhat dark, and does not have the happiest of endings, but whatever the reason, Steven Spielberg’s feature debut only managed to sell tickets to the tune of about $7.5 million.
		In particular, Goldie Hawn is arguably as good in The Sugarland Express as she has ever been in a feature film, and her co-stars William Atherton, Michael Sacks, and Ben Johnson are almost as great.
		However, the anamorphically enhanced image is a pleasure to behold, and the monaural (2.0) soundtrack presents the source material, especially John Williams’ score, in a pretty good fashion.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2339644 (1127 words)

	SpielbergFilms.com - The Sugarland Express
		The need for urgency is that their infant son, Langston, is about to be given out for adoption in Sugarland, Texas.
		“The Sugarland Express” was Steven Spielberg’s first theatrical picture after years of working in television for Universal Studios.
		Given the opportunity to move into features (based largely on his successful television film “Duel”), Spielberg chose the true-life story of events that took place in Texas in 1969 to bring an exciting, yet emotional story to the screen.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /sugarlandhome.html (420 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Sugarland Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For young Steven Spielberg, the "true crime" story The Sugarland Express (1974) is certainly substantially unlike the movies that made him the most famous director in the business: Compared to flights of juvenile fancy like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. Sugarland is quite different.
		Often unfairly compared to the nihilistic Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Sugarland Express is quite different in that its anti-heroes are stupid and hopeless, but also emotionally harmless.
		Lou Jean is simply incapable of rational action (her handling of crisis situations would seem to support the state's custody ruling), and Clovis is keenly aware that he is being led down a doomed path by his heart but is unable to resist Lou Jean's pleading.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/sugarlandexpress.q.shtml (254 words)

	'The Sugarland Express'
		osers determined to win, nomads with a letch for roots, children hampered by adults' bodies: the young couple in "The Sugarland Express" is as American as pop-tops or the Grand Canyon.
		Frantically resolved to retrieve the baby, they hijack a highway patrol car and hold the patrolman as their hostage and chauffeur throughout several hundred miles.
		"Sugarland" is a modest picture, even limited, and the gypsy couple doesn't have the emotional range or depth of the young pair in Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us." Here, the stress is on the story, on what happens to clumsy strays who lurch out of line and risk everything (including life) for their mistakes.
	www.nytimes.com /1974/03/30/movies/moviesspecial/30SUGA.html (549 words)

	The Sugarland Express (1974)
		Lost in the shuffle between Steven Spielberg's acclaimed first movie, the made-for-TV thriller Duel, and his blockbuster shark tale Jaws, was a chase movie called The Sugarland Express.
		Based on a true event that happened in Texas in 1969, The Sugarland Express, in a nutshell is Bonnie & Clyde meets Smokey and the Bandit.
		The couple thinks they can just waltz in to Sugarland, Texas, where their son's new parents live, grab their kid, and live happily ever after.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/sugarland_express.htm (398 words)

	The Sugarland Express (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After stealing a car they take Patrolman Maxwell Slide hostage and thus starts an unusual road-trip to Sugarland, the location of the foster care home where their son Langton is, closely followed by about half the Texas law enforcement community.
		The Sugarland Express is also a fascinating drama about the incredible lengths a mother will go to to be with her child.
		The Sugarland Express is a very enjoyable film made all the more interesting as it is Steven Spielberg's debut theatrical feature film.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=6253&SID=2&PID=230041 (1450 words)

	The Sugarland Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sugarland Express is a 1974 feature film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton.
		It is the first feature film directed by Steven Spielberg.
		"The Sugarland Express Gang", Texas Monthly, September 1, 2001
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sugarland_Express (375 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Sugarland Express
		The Sugarland Express wasn't the breakout hit that he wanted it to be, but it marked the young man who as something new in the directorial landscape: A film student "kid" made a movie that "moved" audiences better than standard industry talent.
		The Sugarland Express is Spielberg's first 'family film,' even though the family this time is already a fractured mess.
		The Sugarland Express uses its action in creative ways that lead up to final scenes of stillness, the sinister pause at the doorstep of the foster home, and when the getaway car dies like an animal on a river sandbar.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1313suga.html (1918 words)

	The Sugarland Express Redux? - SpielbergFilms.com Forum
		And seeing as Sugarland is hardly a famous movie, the remake might not be a detriment to the original, but a way to draw attention to it.
		I believe that while Sugarland is a very good film, much more can be made of the mediaÂ´s reaction to their plight (it could be a very political movie).
		The Sugarland Express may not be famous, but it certainly is among his best films.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /forum/showthread.php?p=35592 (1894 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Sugarland Express (The)
		"The Sugarland Express" marks the directional debut of film maker Steven Spielberg, in this telling of a mother's desparate attempt to get her child back from the state child welfare.
		Based on a true story, Goldie Hawn plays Lou-Jean Poplin, a young woman who is jailed for some petty crimes, and in the process losing custody of her child, which is adopted by the child's foster family.
		Hour and Xpress are not responsible for the opinions expressed by the members.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=8991&v=vo (310 words)

	DVD.net : The Sugarland Express - DVD Review
		The majority of the film is this long car-ride to Sugarland.
		Wishing that her character would die a horrible death is not uncommon among Sugarland Express audiences, and is not unjustified.
		But, alas, The Sugarland Express turned out as terrible as we all imagined.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4832 (753 words)

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