The Sugarland Express
1974, PG, 110 min.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton.

With this first theatrical feature, Steven Spielberg proved he had the right stuff to become America’s purest and most accomplished film entertainer. Based on true events, the film tells the story of an escaped convict and his wife who lead the police on a car chase across Texas in order to retrieve the baby in Sugarland and forestall his imminent adoption.

This article appears in July 27 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.