The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by	Hal Barwood; Matthew Robbins;
Story by	Steven Spielberg; Hal Barwood; Matthew Robbins;
Produced by	Richard D. Zanuck; David Brown;
Starring	Goldie Hawn; Ben Johnson; William Atherton; Michael Sacks;
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Edward M. Abroms; Verna Fields;
Music by	John Williams
Production; company	The Zanuck/Brown Company
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	March 30, 1974 (New York);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million
Box office	$12 million

The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical film directing debut, following the television film Duel (1971).^[3] The film follows a woman (Goldie Hawn) and her husband (William Atherton) as they take a police officer (Michael Sacks) hostage and flee across Texas while they try to get to their child before he is placed in foster care. The event partially took place and the film was partially shot in Sugar Land, Texas.^[4] Other scenes were filmed in San Antonio, Live Oak, Floresville, Pleasanton, Converse and Del Rio, Texas.^[5]

The Sugarland Express marks the first collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams, who has scored all but five of Spielberg's films since; this is the only score he has composed for Spielberg that has never been released as an album, although Williams re-recorded the main theme with Toots Thielemans and the Boston Pops Orchestra for 1991's The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration.^[6]

^ "The Sugarland Express - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
^ Klady, Leonard (June 28, 1996). "Box Office Behemoth". Daily Variety. p. S28.
^ "The "Sugarland Express" Gang". TexasMonthly September 1, 2001. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
^ Rohan, Linda Sue (2 June 2020). "Caught on camera — spot our hometowns in the movies". WilsonCountyNews.com. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^ "Movie Locations of the Great Southwest : The Sugarland Express". Taos Unlimited Movie Locations. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
^ "The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration: John Williams Conducts His Classic Scores For the Films of Steven Spielberg". Amazon. 1991. Retrieved November 6, 2015.

[1] "The Sugarland Express - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved April 24, 2019.

[behemoth-2] Klady, Leonard (June 28, 1996). "Box Office Behemoth". Daily Variety. p. S28.

[first-feature.com-3] "The "Sugarland Express" Gang". TexasMonthly September 1, 2001. Retrieved 2013-03-14.

[4] Rohan, Linda Sue (2 June 2020). "Caught on camera — spot our hometowns in the movies". WilsonCountyNews.com. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

[5] "Movie Locations of the Great Southwest : The Sugarland Express". Taos Unlimited Movie Locations. Retrieved 15 October 2021.

[6] "The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration: John Williams Conducts His Classic Scores For the Films of Steven Spielberg". Amazon. 1991. Retrieved November 6, 2015.

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