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:''"The Sugar Land Express" also was the nickname of the American football player Kenneth Hall.'' ''The Sugarland Express'' is a 1974 American neo-noir drama film co-written and directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical feature film directorial debut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The "Sugarland Express" Gang )〕 It stars Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, William Atherton, and Michael Sacks. 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. Other scenes for the film were filmed in San Antonio, Lone Oak, Floresville, Pleasanton, Converse and Del Rio, Texas. ''The Sugarland Express'' marks the first collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams. Williams has scored all but three of Spielberg's directed-films since (''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', ''The Color Purple'', and ''Bridge of Spies ''being the only exceptions); this is the only score he has composed for Spielberg which 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration: John Williams Conducts His Classic Scores For the Films of Steven Spielberg )〕 ==Plot== In May 1969, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) visits her husband Clovis Michael Poplin (William Atherton) to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster parents. Even though he is four months away from release from the Beauford H. Jester Prison Farm in Texas, she forces him to escape to assist her in retrieving her child. They hitch a ride from the prison with an elderly couple, but when Texas Department of Public Safety Patrolman Maxwell Slide (Michael Sacks) stops the car, they take the car and run. When the car crashes, the two felons overpower and kidnap Slide, holding him hostage in a slow-moving caravan, eventually including reporters in news vans and helicopters. The Poplins and their captive travel through Beaumont, Dayton, Houston, Cleveland, Conroe and finally Wheelock, Texas. By holding Slide hostage, the pair are able to continually gas up their car, as well as get food via the drive-through. Eventually, Slide and the pair bond and have mutual respect for one another. The Poplins bring Slide to the home of the foster parents, where they encounter numerous officers, including the DPS Captain who has been pursuing them, Captain Harlin Tanner (Ben Johnson). A pair of Texas Rangers shoot and kill Clovis and the Texas Department of Public Safety arrests Lou Jean. Patrolman Slide is found unharmed. Lou Jean spends fifteen months of a five-year prison term in a women's correctional facility. Upon getting out, she obtains the right to live with her son, convincing authorities that she is able to do so. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sugarland Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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