The Getaway

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 ...more

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, ...more