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	1972 The Getaway - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
		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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	Amazon.ca: The Getaway (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Sam Peckinpah,Steve McQueen,Ali MacGraw,Ben Johnson,Sally ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the mutton-chops to the gritty texture of the movie there is little doubt as to what decade this came from.
		The result, when Doc finds out, is that he and his wife spend most of the movie squabbling about their relationship while they try to get safely to the Mexican border.
		This movie is very metaphorical in the sense that viewers will really relate to Doc and his wife.
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	‘The Getaway’ (R)
		A pack of mean-spirited, macho louts and their Pamprin-deprived molls go on a stealing and killing spree in "The Getaway," an utterly pointless remake of Sam Peckinpah's hair-raising road movie.
		Updated and dumbed down, this anemic variation on the bloodier 1972 original is primarily an opportunity for those vast legions of Baldwin-Basinger voyeurs.
		In terms of structure, "The Getaway" is virtually a carbon copy of the first film, which was written by Walter Hill, who adapted from Jim Thompson's pulp thriller.
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	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Getaway
		In the realm of action stars, one of those giants is Steve McQueen, man who didn't have spectacular thespian talents but who nevertheless managed to leave huge impact on Hollywood history in 1960s and 1970s by playing many memorable roles in equally memorable films.
		The plot of the film is based on the novel by famous pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson (and later adapted to the screen by Walter Hill).
		However, whether THE GETAWAY is worse film than it should have been or not, it is still a very good piece of cinema that might still entertain those viewers who are thirsty for the well-written stories and characters that doesn't seem to be with us any more.
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	Blu-ray Review: The Getaway (1972) \| High-Def Digest
		First off, a confession: before watching the next-gen editions of the 1972 cult classic 'The Getaway' for this review, my only previous experience with the movie was having seen the utterly dreadful 1992 remake starring the then husband-and-wife team of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
		Though technically McQueen and McGraw were not actually married at the time of 'The Getaway' (they got hitched soon after), their burgeoning love story is clear in every frame of the film.
		Next, we have a 30-minute documentary, "Main Title 1M1: Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckinpah and The Getaway.'" Directed by Nick Redman (who also moderated the audio commentary), it is a surprisingly candid, highly personal eminiscence by three of the women in Jerry Fielding's life: his wife Camille, daughter Elizabeth, and Peckinpah confidante Katy Haber.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Getaway (xhtml)
		The story is as contrived as everything else about the movie (you keep wondering what set this plot into motion).
		We've seen the whole routine in a dozen other movies, and we know you can't rob a bank until you've collected several hundred telephoto photographs of its exterior.
		The movie's climax (which I will not reveal for fear of disappointing you) takes place only because McQueen, MacGraw, and a hood named Rudy go to the greatest pains to find themselves in El Paso at the same time.
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	The Getaway - Moviefone
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	The Getaway Soundtrack (Unused) - Jerry Fielding
		This is the long awaited (and previously unavailable) release of Jerry Fielding's unused soundtrack to the classic Sam Peckinpah movie from 1972, The Getaway, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw.
		A few months before the movie's release, Fielding's soundtrack to The Getaway had been recorded, put in place over the movie, proved succesful with test audiences and the posters had been distributed to theatres with Fielding's name printed on them.
		Portions of Jerry Fielding's rejected soundtrack to The Getaway were included on a private Jerry Fielding compilation in 1992; finally, this CD features the premiere authorized release of the complete score in excellent stereo sound.
	www.moviegrooves.com /shop/getawayfieldingsoundtrack.htm (373 words)

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		Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway is not the sort of movie I generally watch.
		The movie does however, like the book, focus on the relationship between Doc McCoy and his wife and the way they struggle to trust each other.
		And the movie is as much about her as it is about Doc.
	community.livejournal.com /moviebuffs/1491575.html?mode=reply (277 words)

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		Now McCoy and his wife Carol (MacGraw) must make their way to El Paso with the money, avoiding capture by the authorities (by this time McCoy's face is plastered all over the news), Beynon's trigger-happy goons, and one of the aforementioned jokers, all in a effort to make it safely across the border into Mexico.
		There were a couple of really interesting aspects about this movie for me, one being that while Peckinpah's trademark usage of slow motions shots during the violent sequences is present, it seemed a little toned down from some of his other films, but that wasn't a bad thing.
		One of the many things that gives 1972's The Getaway the edge over its now almost-forgotten remake is that, unlike Alec Baldwin, Steve McQueen doesn't act like a movie star - he is a movie star.
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	Laramie Movie Scope: Munich
		The assassins at first are convinced they are right to kill the terrorists, but one by one they begin to have doubts about the wisdom of their actions.
		Other members of the cell are getaway driver Steve (Daniel Craig of “Layer Cake”), cleanup man Carl (Ciarán Hinds of “Calendar Girls”), explosives expert Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz of “Jacob the Liar”) and document forger Hans (Hanns Zischler of “Undercover”).
		It rates a B. Click here for links to places to buy or rent this movie in video and/or DVD format, or to buy the soundtrack, posters, books, even used videos, games, electronics and lots of other stuff.
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	Children SHouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972) - The Bad Movie Report (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The movie opens in a clichéd enough fashion - a mysterious figure with a shovel stands at a graveside at night.
		Alan has brought the gang out to this island getaway for some sort of conceptual theatrical game, or just to seek thrills; he explains the island was once a resort, but fallen upon hard times, and is now used as a Potter's Field for the nearby city.
		This is the way horror movies used to be made, with a king-size hunk of exposition at the front to identify what was normal, what was going to be messed by the intervention of dark forces.
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	deseretnews.com - Movie review: The Getaway \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		We already have a perfectly serviceable version of the Jim Thompson novel, adapted in 1972 by director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter Walter Hill.
		The stars were Steve McQueen, strutting his macho stuff, and Ali MacGraw, at her most vacuous.
		"The Getaway" is rated R for considerable violence, sex, nudity, profanity and vulgarity.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,673,00.html (438 words)

	Secrets behind The Getaway
		The Getaway, however, is not considered one of Peckinpah's more personal works.
		Ultimately, The Getaway would earn a place in Hollywood history because of the incendiary on-set romance between the freshly divorced McQueen and costar MacGraw.
		That said, The Getaway thwarts viewers' expectations of a steamy story of a bandit couple on the run; McQueen and MacGraw barely touch each other.
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	celluloid eyes: The Getaway (1972)
		I've seen clips of the movie, as we all have, and it is enough to assure me that I am not missing some great performance by Ms.
		The Getaway was diverting and I'm not sorry we rented it but I don't have the slightest desire to see it again.
		I can't wait for other Peckinpah movies to be released on DVD this year—Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and Ride the High Country—but even Steve McQueen wouldn't entice me to own this particular movie on DVD, or to see it in a theater.
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	The Getaway (1972)
		The movie was supposed be directed by Peter Bogdanovich and star Cybill Shepherd, his girlfriend at the time.
		This movie seems almost flawless with its excellently executed car chases, it's suspenseful and exciting shoot-outs, and its riveting emotional sequences.
		While it is a violent movie (especially for the year it was released!) its moments of comic relief and even serenity make this movie worthy of any moral person's eyes.
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	Road Movies: Media Resources Center UCB
		They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
		Humbert moves into the Haze home as a boarder and eventually marries Charlotte in order to be closer to Lolita; when Charlotte finds out about Humbert's attraction to her daughter, she flees the house in a rage, only to be killed in an auto accident.
		When Emilia, an Argentinian grandmother, is invited to be the matron of honor at the wedding of a distant niece, she invites her whole family to accompany her in a 1956 Chevy Viking camper on a cross-country journey to the border of Argentina.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/roadmovies.html (6288 words)

	The Big Bird Cage (1972) - The Bad Movie Report (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Django is shocked when his first duty is to take Blossom to the infirmary so she can recover; but his sudden appearance gives Blossom strength.
		The Big Bird Cage breaks down, and Zappa forces one of the girls to crawl underneath to repair it; when the structure further collapses, she is crushed.
		One of the more bizarre subplots in the movie is the antagonistic relationship between the 7 foot tall (or so it seems) lesbian Karen and the diminutive fl woman Mickie (Carol Speed), which is terminated by the crushing scene at the Bird Cage.
	www.stomptokyo.com /badmoviereport/reviews/B/birdcage.html (2075 words)

	EI > Video Risks > BLOODY SAM > The Getaway (1972) (1972)
		Sam gave it to audiences in 1972 as Carter "Doc" McCoy (Steve McQueen) and his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) shot their way across the Southwest in search of a place they could call their own.
		Doc is released early from a Texas penitentiary by Jack Beynon (Ben Johnson), a powerful banker, in order to pull off the robbery of a mob bank.
		The devotion of his cast and crew during the shooting is a testament to what a true artist and friend he was to those who collaborated with him.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/videorisks/sp-thegetaway.php (925 words)

	The Getaway (1972) HD DVD Review
		There were many movie theaters and they were like palaces with great screens and ornamental interiors that heralded a time that had already passed, the golden age of Hollywood movies.
		A whole new generation of filmmakers were just capturing the attention of movie goers and bringing with them a new breed of star that would link the classic old Hollywood stars of the first half of the century with an entirely new wave method actors.
		As much as it is a chase film and an action crime drama, The Getaway is also a western complete with corrupt law enforcement, a bank heist that goes wrong, a reluctant antihero and his wife seeking to start over south of the border in Mexico, and ruthless villains.
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	The Osterman Weekend
		Some other movies by Peckinpah: In 1969, he shot The Wild Bunch, a "slow-motion Western action comedy".
		In 1972, he made the road-movie The Getaway (1972) featuring his friend Steve McQueen as well as Ali McGraw.
		The characters in his movies do not use violence without "reason".
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Getaway (1972)
		A PG-rated Sam Peckinpah movie, 1972's The Getaway was also one of his most commercial efforts to date, but it still offers enjoyable returns.
		But if The Getaway is famous for one thing, it's that it was the film that broke up producer Robert Evans and star Ali MacGraw's marriage — she fell in love with McQueen on the set, and one can witness the chemistry, especially since MacGraw was never much of an actress.
		That said, it still hinges upon a dysfunctional relationship in which the wife slept with another man to get her husband out of jail… which is quintessential Peckinpah.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/g/getaway.q.shtml (495 words)

	HD-DVD review of Getaway, The (Delxue Edition) - DVDTOWN.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the 1994 remake of "The Getaway" with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger would have undoubtedly flattered Sam Peckinpah, Steve McQueen, and Ali MacGraw.
		I'm sure if Peckinpah and McQueen were still alive, though, they wouldn't have felt threatened by the imitation; the newer movie doesn't hold a candle to their 1972 original.
		Today, we take blood and guts for granted in action and adventure movies, but it was directors like Peckinpah who began the trend toward greater realism.
	www.dvdtown.com /reviews/getawaythe/4386 (716 words)

	‘The Getaway’ (R)
		When they brought this extra-dimension into their movies, it charged up even the silliest star vehicles.
		In "The Getaway," a remake of the 1972 adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel, spouses Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger -- the latest flavors of the month to tie the knot -- slum their way through a glam-noirish extended video.
		One can only hope the real Baldwin-Basinger marriage is more exciting than this movie version.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thegetawayrhowe_a0b030.htm (537 words)

	HD DVD Review: The Getaway (1972) \| High-Def Digest
		Like with 'Bullitt,' which hits HD DVD day-and-date with 'The Getaway,' Warner has pulled out a nice selection of new and vintage extras.
		The HD DVD (and Blu-ray) versions of 'The Getaway' come with what could be considered a trio of exclusives.
		Add to that another top shelf HD DVD catalog effort from Warner -- great transfer, soundtrack and extras -- and 'The Getaway' is a no-brainer for Peckinpah devotees.
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	EI > Video Risks > BLOODY SAM > The Getaway (1972) (1972)
		It was his biggest commercial success, and it was proof that Sam could take an ordinary action film and make it something more through rich characters.
		It wasn't a controversial movie, it was just great audience pleasing fun.
		Carol can drive a getaway car or shot a pump shotgun to beat the band.
	einsiders.com /reviews/videorisks/sp-thegetaway.php (925 words)

	Getaway DVD Movie
		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.
		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.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6851701/a/Getaway.htm (448 words)

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