Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 14

i 14-A FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Wednesday Morning April 10 1974 Ar 4U1 IU UHOHL) LU' SS LO CINEMA-X THEATRE X-RATED DOUBLE FEATURES iLOOottuMhlMiml 4005 HIWAY 157 LEE if MARVIN THE SPIKES GANG if CASTQAff tl 720-10 00 'PG' 730 9 30 (PG) HELD CASStDY AND OVER! THE SUNDANCE KID" GOLDIE HAWN RIDES ON TEXAS 'EXPRESS' LERRCE IfidM rife ifjj Starring WILL GEER WALTON" OF CBS-TV'S WALTONS'' larftlit Naur No Posses GOLDIE HAWN on the lam Foa 1-00-300-500 700-900 OLDEST CITY Damascus Syria is the old-e continuously inhabited city in the world Damascus is much now as it was in Bi-lical times with its mosques and monuments Pnnrv OF EDDIE COYLE" Robert ADULTS $1 -CHILDREN 50c CO-STARRING: ELLEN GEER RICHARD KELTON IAN GEER FLANDERS How long has it been since been to a movie and watched your children laugh and cry? How long has it been since laughed and cried a little you reel Now Will Geer (Grandpa on CBS and his real life Grandson Ian Geer Flanders stars in 1 the exciting story of a deaf boy lost deep in the wilderness his friend the deer and the crazy Iff hermit who helps him survive will fill your whole heart with joy! Lee Marvin "THE SPIKES GANG" Charles Bronson "THE MECHANIC" CINEMA -X EMPIRE THEATRES OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY 707 Main St Empire 335 0183 RATED MOVIES $1 OFF WITH THIS AD It is hardly an express route that Sugarland lias finally ridden into town Filmed two years ago in southeast Texas and held up for reasons best known only to Universal the Goldie Hawn starrer is just now hitting the screens around the country including the Palace Belaire and Cinema-Six Flags An advance screening proves it to be well worth the wait a truly delightful and entertaining picture Perhaps its lure lies in the fact that it is based on a real-life happening back in 1969 when a fugitive couple kidnaped a Texas Highway Patrol officer and car and led a motorcade of trailing lawmen newsmen and curious motorists over the highway toward Sugar Land (two words on the map one word in the movie title) in an attempt to regain their child who had been placed in a foster home It is this very a helpless conga line of 75 cop cars with flashing red that makes the of the title and makes for the intriguing visual attraction of the picture ACTRESS BETTER EACH FILM I never thought Miss Hawn deserved that Oscar (for but have long since felt that she has become more and more of a tine actress each time out most notably in Are and now Sugarland Blonde gum-chewing loose and vacant-eyed she is the former prison inmate who visits her husband still an inmate in the Texas prison system and walks him out to freedom one visiting day much against his wavering better judgment They commandeer a car outside the gates eventually wrecking it and then kidnap the DPS officer who investigates the crash With the own gun at his head they begin the drive toward the foster home and their child as the line of pursuers begins forming behind them Neophyte director Steven Spielberg (linked romantically with his star in recent dispatches) plays a grim situation for both warmth and comedy In fact an over- riding element to the picture is how people along the way filled in by newscasts turn the man-and-wife fives into sympathetic heroes shoving food and baby toys into the car window along with requests for autographs when the squad car makes Spielberg fashions Miss Hawn as the epitome of the baby-doll bride the girl from the wrong side of the expressway who wants to hold up service stations along the not for money but for the trading stamps she can steal He has an especially telling scene during a layover one night when the fleeing couple watch a drive-in movie from a vantage point about a block away from the screen Their very un-adult laughter giggling like kids at a Saturday matinee as the silent misadventures of the cartoon coyote are reflected on their faces through a window pane becomes sobering as the husband slowly realizes the beep-beep roadrunner always and his are all parked out there just waiting ACTORS DO FINE JOB William Atherton as the young husband who will always be manipulated and will always end up a loser is outstanding So is Michael Sacks as the kidnaped officer who begins to feel a friendship bond with his captors as the trek continues over those shimmering ribbons of highway toward Sugar Land Ben Johnson always capable in the saddle is rock steady as the Highway Patrol captain leading the chase once again donning plainclothes in a role reminiscent of his recent Melvin Purvis in Interesting as it is tends to fall apart in its final sequences The conclusion of course was dictated by the actual headlines in 1969 but some of the more burlesqued aspects of the leave a credibility gap Especially the scene where Johnson shoots out the tires of a trailing TV news unit causing it to crash and overturn in a stream Highly unlikely But overall this Texan liked the picture And love it in Floresville where 3000 residents were used as extras ENTERTAINMENT EXCELLENCE enriching Th Antncon Unurt Lill PAPILLON STEVE McQUEEN DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1 00 3 45-6 30 9 15 jlj I This time tne bullets are bitting pretty close to homej 'Clint liitvoot Magnum Forte 8 1 003 105 20 i 7 30 9 40 fWamojnt rtv pie ent ROBOT RGDFORDondfTlin ARROW 1 11 "I hervenf hod 7 sudi good lime oF 0 new mone in yeas 1 RAQUll VEICH 4 1 I I Hz 1 1 1 Exclusive Engagement! mms W3S' NO PASSES ACCEPTED 1: foiKu MUFpmci ivahabu cm RUAHow! 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