The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 58

6-C TIIE MIAMI HERALD FrI June 7 1974 snmmimr these jokers are wild" RENT A CAR FLAT RATES bay Week Month 624-1 107621-5566 COMEDY BOX REVUE SHOWTIME 10-30 PM ENTERTAINMENT 200 A -V By JOHN IIUDDY I Hirald Enlartiinmant Editor I I might as well go out on a dtmb right away: Sugar-Sand is the best film twe've seen this year a ersome con clusion if only because the by David picture Steven berg duced Richard Zanuck and AUCTION WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 AT THE YM-YWHA 8500 SW 8th St PRE-SALE 7 PM AUCTION 8 PM SPONSORED BYY-WOMEN EVERYONE WELCOME! wmsm enough to agree with the Texas trooper who brings in the Rangers with high-powered rifles to cut down the couple? Should Captain Tanner allow the half-demented mother and father to take their baby and head for Mexico? The filmgoer must make up his own mind and that I am afraid may be too much for many viewers judging from the response to in other parts of the country "Th Sustrland Express" Is rated Thera is one furious shootout and vio lenca at the end ivi 1 i a William Allierton RESTAURANTLOUNGE MIKE MOM FOR 1 SUNDAYS FROM i PM Now In Our Smart Wine Cellar LUNCH DINNER "Th Anrin Epr" PHONE 445-3636 2661 37ih WFMF AT TI1F Mil FS mill nF'iiMnn imt LU 36 4 Goldie Hawn information humor commentary Cut to: A ferris wheel in the middle of one town revealing that the Sugarland Express has become a bizarre blend of the Fourth of July and a freak show BUT EVEN now it is too late Lou Jean and Clovis ignore the pleas of Captain Tanner and turn up the road to the big wooden foster home The director photographs the house alone and under a dark sky with eerie music faintly audible in the background The house will soon be haunted Spielberg is saying with the ghost from the shoot-out we know must take place Yet even then provides no easy answers The conclusion at the foster home is neither a victory nor a defeat for Clovis and Lou Jean The audience itself is left to choose its own solutions its own heroes Are we foolish enough to cheer on Lou Jean and Clovis despite the fact holding a cocked pistol at the head of the innocent young policeman? 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ROMA LEONARD Singing MC HI-LIFERS ZANY TIP TOPPERS NITELY SPECIAL A 11:45 PM GROUP RATES SEBASTIAN RETURNS JUNE 19) tempts at every turn to talk the young couple into surrender Having thus constructed 1 what might seem to be a grim sad and unhappy yam director Spielberg and his writers throw us completely off balance by mounting a film that is filled with bright witty sparkling spirited moments is hilarious much of the time even when the first ominous strands of funeral music appear in the far corner of the soundtrack Brilliantly Spielberg crams enough action and laughs into his 109 minute feature to fill three or four films so much happening from the initial chase between the trooper and the couple (the trooper must contend with a drunken prisoner in his backseat the fugitives are with a bickering elderly couple) to the extra detail found throughout the film: THE FISTFIGHT In the background when too many tow trucks arrive at the accident scene the police car that forces the press van out of line the trooper who starts to recite his Guidebook when the fugitive couple argue in the hijacked patrol car Two young Louisiana troopers with nothing much else to do climb aboard two shiny new cruisers and race to the scene of the Sugarland Express As they hurl down the road one pulls alongside the other They talk on the radio Then the one officer starts singing a hillbilly song and both ride down the road TTOtr limit Null CLASSIC GUITARS HAND MADE FROM 22 OPEN 11 AM 8 PM 727 8 St 856-4107 CENTEI THE BEACH'S ONLY AFTER HOURS SPOT DRINKS ONLY $150 ON THE OCEAN AT 1 63rd STREET FREE SELF-PARKING FOR 850 CARS SHOW8AR PAT MARA Slnosr-Guitarist NOW! 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