Product Description

Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside - and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence - from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.

DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary by Peckinpah Biographers/Documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David WeddleFeaturette:Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckinpah and The GetawayTheatrical Trailer:

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20858 in DVD
• Brand: MCQUEEN,STEVE
• Released on: 2005-05-31
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 122 minutes

Amazon.com
It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. Not a great film, but a must for McQueen and Peckinpah fans. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Roger Donaldson's remake of the 1972 Sam Peckinpah movie, which starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw as husband-and-wife criminals on the lam, is so smoothly efficient that it makes the original's slickness and crassness look touchingly primitive. What's infuriating about the new movie is that Donaldson and his screenwriters, Walter Hill and Amy Jones, don't make the slightest effort to find a fresh perspective on the material. Alec Baldwin is very skillful, but this remake is so unmistakably still a Steve McQueen picture that he looks at times as if he had been superimposed on the film by some computer trickery in the editing room. (And Kim Basinger, too, is hampered by the script's fidelity to the 1972 movie.) The original was a big hit, and the filmmakers aren't about to mess with a proven commodity. Donaldson's version is craftsmanlike yet smug: it makes you feel nostalgia for the less pristine crumminess of bygone trash. With James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, and Michael Madsen (monotonously reprising the deadpan-sadist shtick he perfected in "Reservoir Dogs"). Based on a novel by Jim Thompson. -Terrence Rafferty
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