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I love this movie, despite all the graphic bloodshed. I don't know why people are always trying to remake Steve McQueen films. All they ever do is fail miserably. This is one if his best; an adventurous, exciting movie, plus a love story, all in one. Steve and Ali are Doc and Carol McCoy, a couple on the run. They're racing from Texas to the Mexican border with money stolen in a bank robbery, after having been double-crossed by their partners in the heist. I highly recommend this one. Always a thrill. Watch for Sally Struthers as Fran, who's also part of the chase. She's with Rudy, who's out for revenge on Doc and Carol. Music by Quincy Jones. Stay away from the remake, and go with this one!
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....subtitled "Ain't No Starbucks in These Here Parts of Texas"
....subsubtitled "When Ali Talks of 'Leavin' this Dump', She's Speaking Literally.
This film is so Texas smoky and dusty and brown Stetson-y that you can feel the gritty, sweaty heat on the back of your neck. It has every thing going for it, including stellar direction by Peckinpah and acting by Machismo McQueen...simply, a great thing for us McQueen Obsessives... Some random observations: Ali converts from a Vogue fashion model to a wet-haired trailer trash (and refuse type trash) babe. Struthers adds to the series of double dealings and underhandedness by falling for the BAD badguy right in front of her addled hubband (she tells the hotel keeper that the kitten's name is "poor little Harold", in memory--sarcastically--of her husband). McQueen tells his wife to "punch it" whenever they have to take off from some roadside drive in or dive in by pump-shotgun fire. Ali gets duped by an oily Texan good samaritan who takes off with the stash, but that's okay, Doc gets it back. The boss's brother and posse rides (six Stetsons to the sky) into town in a long Caddy L-Dog top down ragtop--the only thing missing on this ride are the longhorns on the hood. Tawlk about Texas gangsters!??! And after a Peckinpahian shoot out at a godforsakened Texas transient hotel (You know the kind, like the ones you can just about smell the rancid gin and urine oozing thru the plaster cracks), Slim Pickens shows up to save the day. And they all head for the border, just like in "The Wild Bunch" (in fact, doesn't the same trigger happy dude wind up in both films?).
And McQueen barely breaks out in a sweat. Well, so I exaggerate a lil. Anyhoo, find out what the heck I'm talking about by re-seeing this film. You, too, will agree that it certainly qualifies as a masterpiece.
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I have been watching this movie since I was 13 over and over again. I am 40 as of this writing.
The story behind "The Getaway" involves Steve McQueen as a convict just released from jail who immediatley gets recruited by who I would describe as the "Southern Texas Mafia" to pull a bank robbery in a sleepy Texas town. The proceeds from the robbery would then get split amongst those who helped to pull the job and the orchestrators behind it. Of course, the robbery goes haywire, and some innocent customers and robbery participants are shot and killed. Steve McQueen and wife portrayed by Ali McGraw (who actually participates in the robbery by driving one of the getaway cars) end up with all the money. However, one of the fellow bank robbers who survived the botched hold up played by Al Letteri (Sollazo in the Godfather)is determnied to find McQueen and get his share of the money if not all of it even if it means killing him and his wife.
Why is it that I love this movie so much and watch it over and over ? Is it the CLASSIC gritty and tough guy performace by Mr McQueen, the slow motion and violent shootouts, the beautiful Ali McGraw who can drive a car and handle a .38 snubnose like a pro that appeals to my male hormones ?
Is it the serious Quincy Jones soundtrack complete with juice harp solos that i just cant get enough off ?
Is it seeing actors like Sally Struthers portray a sex starved housewife in this movie who runs off with one of the bankrobbers and makes husband Jack Dodson (Howard Spague from the Andy Griffith show) suffer humilation ?
Is it some of the classic primitive dialouge in the movie that is hilarious yet insulting ? For example, Sally Struthers: "Have you seen Rudy ? Bank robber: " No you dumb broad" Cut to next scene.
is it Slim Pickens ?
Im not sure, but AMC would not rerun this film over and over again if it was not classic entertainment. Nor would there be a remake of the file 10 years later (...). Dont take it from me though. watch it for yourself and you be the judge.
One note: To this day I am surprised this flick received a PG rating. There are some pretty violent (bloody) scenes in it.
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This is an adaption of Jim Thompson's novel "The Getaway". In the book Doc and Carol are trying to get down to Mexico where a man called El Rey has a criminal sanctuary lying in a small coastal group of mountains... El Rey's kingdom is no utopia however. There is nothing but the best to be had and it all cost plenty. When your money runs out so does your luck you are taken to a little village to starve to death. It is a place of cross and double cross as people try to make their money stretch further. It's a waking nightmare for Doc and Carol. The movie leaves all of this out which takes the movie from the action morality tale the book is to just an action film. McQueen makes an excellent choice for Doc however, and except for the omission of the El Rey sequence and a few other parts of the book this is not a bad adaption.
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I waited over a year to see this film, it wasn't worth it. I wasn't aloud to see it because it was supposedly too violent. When I did see it I was really disppointed. There was very little violence at all, and what there was went too fast. In the final shootout at the end (which I thought would be a huge, explosive borderline massacre by the police) was a poorly choreographed hotel gunfight. Steve McQueen could have done better. Peace out.
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