Sugarland, TX lies on state route 6, SE bound from the west
side of Houston, eventually leading down into Galveston County and passing through
Alvin and then Santa Fe, whose high school had the recent shootings in May
2018. The culture and appearance of the
area is homogenous, with stretches of little businesses broken up by bayous. There is a “Grant Lake” park visible from
Route 6.
In 1974 Steven Spielberg filmed “The Sugarland Express”, (Universal) based
on a 1969 incident. Lou Jean (Goldie Hawn) wants to get her husband Clovis
(William Atherton) out of jail. With
some gender bending the plot starts, with kidnapping their child in foster
care, but soon as complications develop they take a police officer (Michael
Sacks) hostage, and pretty much “Waltz across Texas” as the police caravans
march.
This would be a very grave kind of situation to be caught up in as a civilian.
I think I saw this in New Jersey in the summer of 1974
before I moved into “The City”.
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