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The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The film was directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Walter Hill, and stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri and Sally Struthers. The plot follows imprisoned mastermind robber Carter "Doc" McCoy, whose wife Carol conspires for his ...
- $3.3 million
- Quincy Jones
- December 13, 1972
Feb 11, 1994 · The Getaway: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods. An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
- (19K)
- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Roger Donaldson
- 1994-02-11
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.
- (35K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1972-12-16
The Getaway is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. The screenplay was written by Walter Hill and Amy Holden Jones, based on Jim Thompson 's 1958 novel of the same name. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods and Jennifer Tilly. The film flopped at box office, but it enjoyed lucrative ...
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Feb 11, 1994 · "The Getaway" is a particularly nasty and mean-spirited action picture, with the dramatic depth of an arcade game. It is about a lot of people who doublecross and shoot each other, usually several times. None of these people have personalities, backgrounds, values or other points of interest. The film is fairly unique in one respect: Everyone in it is slime, and the "heroes" are approximately ...
When convict Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) is refused parole, he enlists his wife, Carol (Ali MacGraw), to strike a deal with crooked Texan Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson), who agrees to pull strings for ...
- (24)
- Action
- PG
While Doc stashes their getaway car in the train station's garage, Carol puts the valise with the stolen money into a locker. Because the bag is heavy, she accepts help from a stranger, who turns out to be a con man, and switches locker keys with her and steals the bag for himself. Doc chases the con man onto the train, but briefly loses him.
