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The Getaway (HD DVD) (1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw Director: Sam Peckinpah Rating: PG
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In The Getaway, Doc McCoy (Steve MacQueen) has been granted parole. The catch is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favour from McCoy for his generocity: robbing another bank! Beynon does not really intend to let McCoy walk away after the heist and neither does co-robber Rudy Butler, but stopping Doc proves a trifle difficult.
After the rugged rodeo drama JUNIOR BONNER, the impetuous Sam Peckinpah reteamed with Steve McQueen for this down-and-dirty heist picture The Getaway. McQueen stars with his soon-to-be real-life bride Ali McGraw (with whom he fell in love during the film The Getaway's production) as the beautiful, but dangerous, married couple Doc and Carol McCoy. After being released from prison--for reasons Doc would rather not acknowledge--Doc shacks up in a hotel with Carol to plot a small-town bank robbery. Of course, the heist doesn't go as smoothly as planned, resulting in an action-packed journey that sends the lovers on a reckless romp through the beautiful Texas landscape.
Peckinpah's big screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Getaway features the trademark qualities that helped to make him such an alternately reviled and revered figure: namely, his vision of a world in which even the good guys are bad guys. Lucien Ballard's gorgeous cinematography contrasts wonderfully with the gritty subject matter, lifting the potentially standard picture to a more artistic plateau. The chemistry between the incomparably cool McQueen and the magnetic McGraw also confirms The Getaway's status as a defining film of the genre.
"'The Getaway' was my first attempt at satire, badly done." -- SAM PECKINPAH
Theatrical release: December 13, 1972
The Getaway was shot on location in various Texas locations.
Peckinpah, who died in 1984, is well known for making some of the most controversial films of the late 1960s and 1970s. However, he began putting his imprint on the film world a decade earlier as the dialogue director for many of Donald Siegel's films, the first of which was 1954's RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11. While working with Siegel, Peckinpah was a jack-of-all-trades who wrote screenplays (including 1956's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS), and also learned to direct action films.
The Getaway was remade in 1984 with husband-and-wife team Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
The Getaway: Deluxe Special Edition is also available as part of the The Essential Steve McQueen Collection |
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Starring:
Steve McQueen | Ali MacGraw | Ben Johnson | Sally Struthers | Al Lettieri | Slim Pickens | Richard Bright | Jack Dodson | ...more
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Directed By:
Sam Peckinpah
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Genre:
Action/Adventure, Thriller/Suspense
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DVD Release Date:
February 27, 2007
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
PG
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Year:
1972
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Regional Coding:
This Title originates from North America
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Number of Discs:
1
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Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
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Screen Ratio:
Anamorphic (16:9), Widescreen Edition - 2.35:1 (1080p)
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English (Dolby Digital Plus 1.0 Mono)
French (Dolby Digital Plus 1.0 Mono) | |
Running Time:
123 minutes
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Studio:
Warner Brothers
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UPC/Barcode Number:
085391136910
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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Color: Yes
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