Getaway

UPC: 085391136903

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 biographers/
documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
"Virtual" Reel 1 commentary by Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and Sam Peckinpah
New featurette Main Title 1M1 Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckinpah and The Getaway
Reel 4 bank robbery sequence with alternate Jerry Fielding score
Audio-only bonus: alternate Jerry Fielding score
Sam Peckinpah movie trailer gallery

Getaway

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 02/27/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 123 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Getaway
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31
32. Chapter 32
33. Chapter 33

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