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The Getaway Details

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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
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
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 DVD Certificate 18.gif
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
  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Getaway

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
  • 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

    Rated - 5 stars

    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'.

      • James Martin from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    top notch

    Mcqueen at his best and action films like they are meant to be ,gripping and worth seeing over and over.

      • A customer from england
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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....