Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
- prison
- police
- stadium
- kidnapping
- hostage
- texas
- adoption
- texas ranger
- baby-snatching
- based on true story
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Gregory Walcott — Mashburn
- Steve Kanaly — Jessup
- Louise Latham — Mrs. Looby
- Harrison Zanuck — Baby Langston
- A.L. Camp — Mr. Nocker
- Jessie Lee Fulton — Mrs. Nocker
- Dean Smith — Russ Berry
- Ted Grossman — Dietz
- Bill Thurman — Hunter
- Ken Hudgins — Standby #1
- Buster Daniels — Drunk
- Directed
- Steven Spielberg
- Written
- Hal Barwood, Steven Spielberg, Matthew Robbins
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 486 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
