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Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway" is a big, glossy, impersonal mechanical toy. It's like one of those devices for executive desks, with the stainless steel balls on the strings: It functions with great efficiency but doesn't accomplish anything.
83% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 81% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings When convict Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) is refused parole, he enlists his wife, Carol (Ali MacGraw), to strike a deal with crooked...
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- Sam Peckinpah
- PG
- Steve Mcqueen
King of cool Steve McQueen teams with "Bloody Sam" Peckinpah for this thoroughly engaging story of a couple on the lam following a botched robbery. Walter Hill adapts the novel by Jim Thompson in this story of Carter "Doc" McCoy (McQueen), a criminal currently doing time.
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Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 83% based on 23 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's consensus reads, " The Getaway sees Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen, the kings of violence and cool, working at full throttle."
Dec 16, 1972 · The Getaway: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers. A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1972-12-16
Jan 19, 2022 · Sam Peckinpah’s star-powered crime thriller “The Getaway” sees Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw on the run along the U.S./Mexico southern border. McQueen was a huge movie star at the time and had a say in most aspects of the film.
Mar 21, 2007 · The Getaway devotes quite a bit of time to the relationship between its husband and wife bank robbers, but it's still unmistakably an action movie, closing with a brutal shootout in the El Paso hotel and scattering a slew of destructive car chases throughout.