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The Getaway
1972
McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones. Read more
| Starring | Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers |
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| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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The Getaway
McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones.
| Starring | Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens, Bo Hopkins |
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| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 58 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 58 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 58 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Sep 1998 Blu-ray: 27 Aug 2007 HD DVD: 27 Aug 2007 Production year: 1972 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this gripping, landmark thriller, ex-convict Steve McQueen and his wife Ali MacGraw head off to Mexico after a bank robbery backfires, pursued by psychotic partner-in-crime Al Lettieri and the heavily armed henchmen of crime boss Ben Johnson. Directed by the master of screen violence, Sam Peckinpah, and scripted by Walter Hill from a novel by Jim Thompson, it's a modern western, a tough, disconcerting fable exploring the human soul, set in the barren landscapes of the Texan desert. The charismatic McQueen has to face the unpalatable truth about how MacGraw secured his release from jail, as their relationship — literally — comes under fire in a hail of bullets. In real life, though, the stars fell in love and subsequently married.
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An evident precursor to The Driver (Walter Hill scripted both, this one from Jim Thompson's novel). The major strength... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Peckinpah Classic
Though i was expecting a bloodier film, coming from the man who directed 'The Wild Bunch'.
Still, the film is a classic and Steve McQueen is excellent as the master of cool.
The film centres around Steve McQueen as a professional thief who is employed to do a 'job' in exchange for being taken out of prison. Needless to say, things go wrong and the film centres around (not surprisingly) McQueen and MacGraw's 'Getaway'. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
top notch
Mcqueen at his best and action films like they are meant to be ,gripping and worth seeing over and over.
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Getaway, The - HD DVD Version
McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones....
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The Getaway
McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones....
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