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The Getaway

( Catalog Number 11122 )
(2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

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Best Version on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer

The Getaway
1972 - 123 min. - Color
Genre: Action
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
After the rugged rodeo drama JUNIOR BONNER, the impetuous Sam Peckinpah reteamed with Steve McQueen for this down-and-dirty heist picture. McQueen stars with his soon-to-be real-life bride Ali McGraw (with whom he fell in love during the film's production) as the beautiful, but dangerous, married couple Doc and Carol McCoy. After being released from prison--for reasons Doc would rather not acknowledge--Doc shacks up in a hotel with Carol to plot a small-town bank robbery. Of course, the heist doesn't go as smoothly as planned, resulting in an action-packed journey that sends the lovers on a reckless romp through the beautiful Texas landscape.

Peckinpah's big screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel features the trademark qualities that helped to make him such an alternately reviled and revered figure: namely, his vision of a world in which even the good guys are bad guys. Lucien Ballard's gorgeous cinematography contrasts wonderfully with the gritty subject matter, lifting the potentially standard picture to a more artistic plateau. The chemistry between the incomparably cool McQueen and the magnetic McGraw also confirms THE GETAWAY's status as a defining film of the genre.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

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

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Cast for The Getaway

Steve McQueen - Doc McCoy
Ali MacGraw - Carol McCoy
Ben Johnson - Jack Benyon
Sally Struthers - Fran Clinton
Al Lettieri - Rudy
Slim Pickens - Cowboy
Whitney Jones - Soldier
Tom Runyon - Hayhoe
Stacy Newton - Stacy
Dub Taylor - Laughlin
John Bryson - Accountant
A.L. Camp - Hardware-Store Owner
Richard Bright - Railroad Station Thief
Roy Jenson - Cully
Bo Hopkins - Frank Jackson
Dick Crockett - Bank Guard
Bill Hart - Swain
Jack Dodson - Harold Clinton

Crew for The Getaway

Sam Peckinpah - Director
Mitchell Brower - Producer
David Foster - Producer
Walter Hill - Screenwriter
Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer
Quincy Jones - Composer (Music Score)
Roger Spottiswoode - Editor
Robert Wolfe - Editor
Angelo P. Graham - Art Director
Edward Haworth - Art Director
Ted Haworth - Art Director
George R. Nelson - Set Designer
Ray Summers - Costume Designer
Al Fleming - Makeup
Jack Petty - Makeup
Bud Hulburd - Special Effects
Newt Arnold - First Assistant Director
Carey Loftin - Stunts
Garth Craven - Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Portman - Sound/Sound Designer
Charles M. Wilborn - Sound/Sound Designer

Feature Details

Title: The Getaway
Feature Release Date: 1972
Genre: Action
Rating: PG
Color: Color
Runtime: 123 Minutes
Chapters: 34
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 24 Oct 1995
Catalog Number: 11122
UPC: 085391112266
ISBN: 0-7907-2226-7
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: Warner Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 11122-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in...

The Getaway

( Catalog Number 11122 )
(2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer

The Getaway
1972 - 123 min. - Color
Genre: Action
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
After the rugged rodeo drama JUNIOR BONNER, the impetuous Sam Peckinpah reteamed with Steve McQueen for this down-and-dirty heist picture. McQueen stars with his soon-to-be real-life bride Ali McGraw (with whom he fell in love during the film's production) as the beautiful, but dangerous, married couple Doc and Carol McCoy. After being released from prison--for reasons Doc would rather not acknowledge--Doc shacks up in a hotel with Carol to plot a small-town bank robbery. Of course, the heist doesn't go as smoothly as planned, resulting in an action-packed journey that sends the lovers on a reckless romp through the beautiful Texas landscape.

Peckinpah's big screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel features the trademark qualities that helped to make him such an alternately reviled and revered figure: namely, his vision of a world in which even the good guys are bad guys. Lucien Ballard's gorgeous cinematography contrasts wonderfully with the gritty subject matter, lifting the potentially standard picture to a more artistic plateau. The chemistry between the incomparably cool McQueen and the magnetic McGraw also confirms THE GETAWAY's status as a defining film of the genre.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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

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

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Cast for The Getaway

Steve McQueen - Doc McCoy
Ali MacGraw - Carol McCoy
Ben Johnson - Jack Benyon
Sally Struthers - Fran Clinton
Al Lettieri - Rudy
Slim Pickens - Cowboy
Whitney Jones - Soldier
Tom Runyon - Hayhoe
Stacy Newton - Stacy
Dub Taylor - Laughlin
John Bryson - Accountant
A.L. Camp - Hardware-Store Owner
Richard Bright - Railroad Station Thief
Roy Jenson - Cully
Bo Hopkins - Frank Jackson
Dick Crockett - Bank Guard
Bill Hart - Swain
Jack Dodson - Harold Clinton

Crew for The Getaway

Sam Peckinpah - Director
Mitchell Brower - Producer
David Foster - Producer
Walter Hill - Screenwriter
Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer
Quincy Jones - Composer (Music Score)
Roger Spottiswoode - Editor
Robert Wolfe - Editor
Angelo P. Graham - Art Director
Edward Haworth - Art Director
Ted Haworth - Art Director
George R. Nelson - Set Designer
Ray Summers - Costume Designer
Al Fleming - Makeup
Jack Petty - Makeup
Bud Hulburd - Special Effects
Newt Arnold - First Assistant Director
Carey Loftin - Stunts
Garth Craven - Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Portman - Sound/Sound Designer
Charles M. Wilborn - Sound/Sound Designer

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