Getaway

UPC: 012569693876

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language]

Summary: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to get him out of prison. Carol secures Doc's freedom, on the condition that he does one more bank job for Benyon. Doc and his accomplices Rudy (Al Lettieri) and Jackson (Bo Hopkins) get the cash, but Doc soon discovers how Rudy intends to keep it all for himself and how Carol convinced Benyon to get him sprung. While Rudy hijacks a veterinarian and his wife (Sally Struthers) to take him to get Doc in El Paso, Doc and Carol make their own embattled way south with the money, threatening to desert each other before reaching a trash dump rapprochement after a harrowing garbage truck episode. All sides converge in El Paso for a shootout, but trust a happily married old-timer (Slim Pickens) to help Doc and Carol have a future. With violence shot in his trademark balletic style, Peckinpah does not hide the damage that Doc can do, whether to a cop car or an enemy. Still, as in such other morally relative outlaw movies as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Peckinpah's western The Wild Bunch (1969), Doc may be a criminal and killer when necessary, but his and Carol's loyalty to each other elevates them above their crooked milieu. With its non-traditional traditional couple played by the then hot (and notoriously adulterous) stars McQueen and MacGraw, The Getaway was a substantial hit. It was lackadaisically remade with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in 1994. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Crime

Awards: Best Original Score – null Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Commentary by Peckinpah biopgraphers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
"Virtual" commentary by Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and Sam Peckinpah
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English, Fran?ais
Subtitles: English, Fran?ais and Espa?ol

Getaway

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/31/2005

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 123 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. The Huntsville Grind [7:52]
2. For Sale to Benyon [2:47]
3. Swimming in Freedom [4:46]
4. Nervous Reunion [5:52]
5. Doc's Job, Benyon's Show [2:43]
6. Preparations [2:54]
7. Making Sure Everybody Understands [3:49]
8. The Heist Begins [6:44]
9. Robbery Gone Bad [3:15]
10. Didn't Make It; Rudy's Vow [4:20]
11. Doing It Doc's Way [2:25]
12. Doc and Benyon get the Picture [3:11]
13. No Way to Explain It [2:40]
14. Rudy's Travel Plans [2:26]
15. The McCoys' Travel Plans [1:41]
16. Inspecting Fran [1:32]
17. Bagging the Bagman [:53]
18. Headed for the Laughlin Hotel [9:27]
19. Full of Ifs [1:38]
20. Blasting Out of a Tight Spot [5:25]
21. Food Game [7:55]
22. Burgers and Bullets [1:50]
23. Getting Trashed [4:05]
24. Harold's Hangup [3:25]
25. Getting Dumped [:23]
26. "I Chose You, Not Him" [3:09]
27. Rudy's New Rules [2:51]
28. Checking Into Room 318 [2:45]
29. Doc Plays a Hunch [3:40]
30. The Shooting Starts [3:27]
31. Advice to the Hitchhikers [4:13]
32. A Deal on Wheels [2:57]
33. End Credits [2:48]

Brendon Hanley

From the groundbreaking Wild Bunch to the fascinating Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah's list of achievements between 1969 and 1974 rivals that of any other American director of the time. In the middle of this watershed period was The Getaway, a film originally intended to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Ostensibly a standard heist flick, The Getaway is one of the most underrated crime thrillers of the 1970s. Very much in keeping with the gritty, violent style of the time, the film is an entertaining blend of hard-boiled characterizations and suspenseful thrills. The Getaway paired two of the biggest sex symbols of the era, Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, who was fresh off her star-making performance in the weepy Love Story; they began a notorious love affair on the shoot, after which MacGraw divorced producer Robert Evans. The screenplay for The Getaway was the first picture based on a novel by noir writer Jim Thompson; the adaptation was by Walter Hill, who went on to become a successful action director. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Dick Crockett  Actor 
Stacy Newton  Actor 
Roy Jenson  Actor 
Tom Runyon  Actor 
Whitney Jones  Actor 
Dub Taylor  Actor 
John Bryson  Actor 
Bo Hopkins  Actor 
A.L. Camp  Actor 
Richard Bright  Actor 
Bill Hart  Actor 
Walter Hill  Screenwriter 
Quincy Jones  Composer (Music Score) 
Sam Peckinpah  Director 
Mitchell Brower  Producer 
David Foster  Producer 
Steve McQueen  Actor 
Ali MacGraw  Actor 
Ben Johnson  Actor 
Sally Struthers  Actor 
Al Lettieri  Actor 
Slim Pickens  Actor 
Jack Dodson  Actor 

Country: USA