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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
Dec 16, 1972 · Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw star as a couple on the run after a botched bank robbery in Texas. Watch the trailer, see photos, read reviews and trivia, and learn about the plot and cast of this Sam Peckinpah film.
- (35K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1972-12-16
Feb 11, 1994 · Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as a couple who flee from danger after a heist goes wrong. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this 1994 remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic.
- (19K)
- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Roger Donaldson
- 1994-02-11
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 ...
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.
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A movie review by Roger Ebert that criticizes the plot, the characters, and the style of Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway" (1972), a crime thriller starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. The review praises the train chase scene as a masterpiece, but finds the rest of the movie contrived and impersonal.
