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Encyclopedia > The Getaway (1972 movie)

The Getaway is a 1972 crime movie, starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. The screenplay was written by Walter Hill, and the film was directed by Sam Peckinpah. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Steve McQueen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Ali MacGraw (born April 1, 1938) is an American actress. ... Jim Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory-April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels of the pulp fiction kind. ... Walter Hill Walter Hill (born California 1942) is a prominent American film director. ... Sam Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director famous for his films with extremely bloody climaxes. ...


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"Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich 'business'-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison."


A 1994 remake, under the same title, featured Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, and James Woods 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Alec Baldwin Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were married from 1993 to 2002. ... Kim Basinger Kim Basinger (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is a notable American film actress who entered the profession after great success as a model. ... Michael Madsen Michael Madsen (born September 25, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, the brother of actress Virginia Madsen. ... James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. ...


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1972 The Getaway - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills (321 words)
It’s a messy heist, and when Doc and wife Carol (MacGraw) make off with the loot, they find their problems are only just beginning… Peckinpah brings some unexpectedly arty touches to his adaptation of Jim Thompson’s hard-boiled novel, deploying disjointed sound, freeze frames and slow motion to constantly keep us on our toes.
But he never loses sight of the movie’s real meat - a series of tense scenes as the McCoys cope with the unwelcome attentions of rival crooks determined to get their hands on the ill-gotten gains.
But his finale is pretty much a travesty: while no Hollywood movie could ever have concluded with the book’s spectacularly bleak, fl joke, it’s painful to see scriptwriter Walter Hill taking such a lame, sunny route as an alternative.
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