| | Getaway Blu-ray
| Category | Blu-ray DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Action Videos, Thriller, Suspense, Live-Action, Love Story, Thieves, Gangsters, On-The-Run, Couples | | Starring | Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Ali MacGraw, Slim Pickens, Bo Hopkins, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri | | Director | Sam Peckinpah | | Art Director | Ted Haworth | | Composer | Quincy Jones | | Director of Photography | Lucien Ballard | | Editor | Robert L. Wolfe | | Makeup | Al Fleming | | Producer | David Foster, Mitchell Brower | | Production Designer | Angelo Graham | | Screenwriter | Walter Hill | | Set Designer | Gene Nelson | | Special Effects | Bud Hulburd | | Story | Jim Thompson | | Stunts | Carey Loftin |
Closed Captioned; Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles; Spanish Subtitles; French Subtitles After the rugged rodeo drama JUNIOR BONNER, the impetuous Sam Peckinpah reteamed with Steve McQueen for this down-and-dirty heist picture. McQueen stars with his soon-to-be real-life bride Ali McGraw (with whom he fell in love during the film'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 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. Theatrical release: December 13, 1972
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. Getaway Quotes/Excerpts: "'The Getaway' was my first attempt at satire, badly done." -- SAM PECKINPAH Getaway Reviews: Ranked #5 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "Sam Peckinpah's most ferociously entertaining film."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "Peckinpah's testosterone-fueled actioner stars McQueen as an ex-con..."-- David Richardson, Ultimate DVD Getaway | List Price | $28.99 (You save $6.24) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1972 | | All Time Sales Rank |  82122  | | CD Universe Part number | 7377903 | | Catalog number | 113690 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 27, 2007 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 123 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Deluxe Edition; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Deluxe Edition; Dubbed; Subtitled |
Getaway Video | Getaway (1972) Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled; Deluxe Edition |  | $12.99 |
Getaway Movie Review  THIS FILM GAVE ME TEENAGE WOOD
Sally Struthers plays the wife of a veternarian (forget his name but he's one of the characters from Andy of Mayberry.)
The scene where the bad guy is doing the veternarians wife while he's tied up at the foot of the bed is hilarious, in a somewhat sadistic, Peckinpaw sort of way.
Submitted by rambrat (San Francisco, Ca)
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