Sugarland Express

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Movie
German title Sugarland Express
Original title The Sugarland Express
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1974
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steven Spielberg
script Steven Spielberg,
Hal Barwood ,
Matthew Robbins
production David Brown ,
Richard D. Zanuck
music John Williams
camera Vilmos Zsigmond
cut Edward M. Abroms
occupation

Sugarland Express is director Steven Spielberg's second feature film from 1974.

action

The unemployed beautician Lou Jean Poplin helps her husband Clovis Michael Poplin escape from prison. She wants to get back her little son Langston, who has been stolen from her and who now lives with foster parents in Sugarland , Texas . On the run, the two young petty criminals take the policeman Maxwell Slide hostage. Now they are considered violent kidnappers and are being hunted down by the police under the leadership of level-headed Captain Tanner. A caravan of police and reporters follows you across Texas. Maxwell developed increasing understanding and friendship for the two. But he does not succeed in dissuading her from her plan. The media coverage of the escape means that more and more onlookers come to the route and encourage the hunted.

When they finally reach their destination - the foster parents' house - snipers wait there for the couple while the neighborhood is cleared. Maxwell warns that it is a trap and the two may die. Lou Jean, however, screams hysterically that she wants to see her son. Finally, Clovis goes to the house and is badly shot. The three of them flee to Mexico by car . When they get stuck at the border river, they are surrounded by the police. Clovis dies.

background

The film is based on a true story in May 1969. Ila Fae Dent and her husband Robert are on the run in southeast Texas after the couple took a police officer, Kenneth Crone, hostage. In the house of Ila Fae's mother there is a bloody showdown in which Robert is shot. Kenneth Crone was hired as a consultant for the film.

The film marks the beginning of Spielberg's close collaboration with film music composer John Williams , who from then on provided the film music for every Spielberg film except for Die Farbe Lila and Bridge of Spies .

Reviews

  • Hans-Christoph Blumenberg , Die Zeit vom January 24th, 1975: The young Steven Spielberg staged his second film as routinely and effectively as an old Hollywood professional, but unfortunately "Sugarland Express" works across the board despite the brilliant photography by Vilmos Zsigmond Stretch like an overly smooth, overly speculative copy of a tried and tested pattern. Still worth seeing for America and car fanatics.
  • Lexicon of international film : Technically perfect and fast-paced staged road movie, which sometimes derives macabre comedy effects from the bitter moral of the story - the utopia of freedom is being reduced to absurdity by American law-and-order thinking.

Awards

  • The film won an award for Best Screenplay at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival , and Steven Spielberg was nominated for a Palme d'Or.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Film tips . In: Die Zeit , No. 5/1975
  2. ^ Sugarland Express. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used