Classy chase and intrigue thriller being the first movie directed by the great Steven Spielberg .Nice film with fine performances from Goldie Hawn, Wiliam Atherton, Michael Sacks and Ben Johnson giving one of his best ones as an understanding, tough police chief. Clovis Poplin is serving the remainder of his one year prison sentence in pre-release at the TDC Pre-Release Facility for petty larceny. His wife Lou Jean is also newly released from prison and comes to visit him with the intention of breaking him out because she just lost their child to foster parents that intend to adopt Baby Langston. She threatens to leave him for good if he does not go along with her plan. Clovis and Lou Jean are uneducated and not playing with a full deck; Clovis is naïve and easily manipulated and Lou Jean is beautiful, but annoying, ignorant, impulsive, and borderline sociopathic. She helps her husbabd break out of prison. In their flight to freedom, they hijack a police car, holding the policeman hostage. It's Not Every Day You Take a Ride Like This!.A girl with a great following. Based on a real life event which happened in Texas in 1969. The true story of a girl who took on all of Texas...and almost won. Every cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her.
This Spielberg's first feature film contains thrills, emotion, pursuits and spectacular scenes. The real incident took place in May of 1969, this one is about February of 1973, just west of Houston, Texas (Sugarland in actuality), in which a young woman helps her husband break out of jail; in their flight to freedom, they hijack a police car, holding the policeman in hostage. A chase film in which the mechanics of the thing are devilishly well achieved, and this one really ramble a bit. There's a well-wrought storyline and on-the-ball filmmaking by Spielberg: it's just too darned long though. Goldie Hawn's sympathetic acting, it's all show and no heart. Pretty good William Atherton and Michael Sacks. Ben Johnson is magnificent as the head of the pursuing cops. And somenotorious secondaries appearing here and there Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly and Louise Latham.
It displays a sensitive and evocative musical score by John Williams. As well as colorful and brilliante cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. Based on a true story, adapted by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins; the motion picture was very well and superbly directed by Spielberg, being his film debut. Although his first one was sactually ¨Duel¨ with Dennis Weaver while in US it premiered in Television, it was released threatically in Europe . Here Steven maintains the whole nightmarish situation at total tension and fever pitch. Spielberg successful film to be continued by a series of hits, such as : Jaws, Close encounters in third phase , Raiders of the lost ark, ET, The color purple, Amazing stories, Empire of the sun, Hook, Jurassik Park, Amistad, Schindler list, Lost world, A. I. , Minority report, The terminal, Munich, War of the words, Indiana Jones and the last crusade and many others. Rating : Notable, better than average, 7.5/10. An absolute cracker that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
This Spielberg's first feature film contains thrills, emotion, pursuits and spectacular scenes. The real incident took place in May of 1969, this one is about February of 1973, just west of Houston, Texas (Sugarland in actuality), in which a young woman helps her husband break out of jail; in their flight to freedom, they hijack a police car, holding the policeman in hostage. A chase film in which the mechanics of the thing are devilishly well achieved, and this one really ramble a bit. There's a well-wrought storyline and on-the-ball filmmaking by Spielberg: it's just too darned long though. Goldie Hawn's sympathetic acting, it's all show and no heart. Pretty good William Atherton and Michael Sacks. Ben Johnson is magnificent as the head of the pursuing cops. And somenotorious secondaries appearing here and there Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly and Louise Latham.
It displays a sensitive and evocative musical score by John Williams. As well as colorful and brilliante cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. Based on a true story, adapted by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins; the motion picture was very well and superbly directed by Spielberg, being his film debut. Although his first one was sactually ¨Duel¨ with Dennis Weaver while in US it premiered in Television, it was released threatically in Europe . Here Steven maintains the whole nightmarish situation at total tension and fever pitch. Spielberg successful film to be continued by a series of hits, such as : Jaws, Close encounters in third phase , Raiders of the lost ark, ET, The color purple, Amazing stories, Empire of the sun, Hook, Jurassik Park, Amistad, Schindler list, Lost world, A. I. , Minority report, The terminal, Munich, War of the words, Indiana Jones and the last crusade and many others. Rating : Notable, better than average, 7.5/10. An absolute cracker that will keep you on the edge of your seat.