The Sugarland Express - Trailer (1974)

The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American drama film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton. It is the first theatrical feature film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is about a husband and wife trying to outrun the law and was based on a true story. The event partially took place, the story is partially set, and the movie was partially filmed in Sugar Land, Texas.[1] Other scenes for the film were filmed in Lone Oak Community, Floresville, Pleasanton, Converse and Del Rio, Texas.

In 1969, Ila Fae Dent helped her husband Robert escape from the Beauford H. Jester pre-release prison facility in Texas (the same one where the movie was filmed), because she feared losing custody of their child to Ila Fae's mother. During their flight, they overpowered and kidnapped Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Kenneth Crone, holding him hostage during a slow-moving caravan of up to 150 DPS vehicles, along with reporters in cars and helicopters and hundreds of curious bystanders, that passed through Port Arthur, Houston, Navasota, and finally Wheelock, near Bryan. Unlike the film, the events took just several hours.

Ein Ehepaar, gespielt von Goldie Hawn und William Atherton, ist nach dem Gefängnisausbruch des Mannes auf der Flucht vor der Polizei. Sie planen ihr eigenes Kind zu entführen, das bei der Mutter der Frau lebt, da sie fürchten, das Sorgerecht zu verlieren. Auf der Flucht nehmen sie einen Polizisten als Geisel und werden durch ganz Texas gejagt.
Der Film basiert auf einer wahren Begebenheit. Ila Fae Dent und ihr Ehemann Robert sind auf der Flucht, nachdem Ila Fae ihrem Mann geholfen hat, aus einem Gefängnis in der Nähe von Sugar Land, Texas auszubrechen. Ila Fae wollte damit verhindern, dass sie das Sorgerecht über ihr Kind an ihre Mutter abgeben muss. Auf ihrer Flucht überwältigt das Paar einen Polizisten, Kenneth Crone, und nimmt ihn als Geisel. Im Haus von Ila Faes Mutter kommt es zum blutigen Showdown, bei dem Robert erschossen wird. Kenneth Crone war als Berater für den Film engagiert.

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[tall32guy]

I am disappointed. I never have seen this, and from what I heard I'd gathered it was an intense, dramatic story about a welfare mother fighting for custody of her children and to prevent them being taken away. Now I see that's not what it's about... oh well. LOL

[JoLeana76]

I always wondered what the real people looked like. Is there any real news footage of the real couple and the real trooper?

[greyztone]

@CoolerKing37 Thanks, knew I'd seen him somewhere... and that I didn't like him!

[YoungDylanFan]

@MyName42 Back in the 70s a trailer like this came out months before the film so by the time the movie came out you forgot all the details of the trailer.

[CoolerKing37]

William Atherton, who played Clovis, also played the "dickless" EPA agent in 'Ghostbusters'!

[USMCnBNSFdude]

2:17, I live near the town where that was filmed. my friends mom is in that scene somewhere in the background too.

and @ 2:50, I drive over the spot where that scene was filmed all the time. :D

[MyName42]

Wow, that just showed the whole movie.

[feedbackl00p]

@palehorse44 They also did some far worse work, this was a great movie.

[palehorse44]

the first teaming of steven spielberg and john williams, good thing they both did better work than this l8r on :)