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Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: **** |
The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessness of prison life better than most entirely-set-in-prison prison flicks... plus it's the only sequence centered solely on Steve McQueen as career criminal Doc McCoy sans the uninspired acting of ingenue/partner Ali MacGraw...
During a pivotal meeting — tempted by Texas millionaire Ben Johnson after having sex to get Doc paroled and then tortured with envy — she has a vacant expression as opposed to McQueen's sharpened countenance...
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Bo Hopkins in THE GETAWAY with Al Lettieri |
Meanwhile, GODFATHER villain Al Letteri (initially partnered with a cocky, trigger-happy Bo Hopkins) would have perfectly contrasted against McQueen, only Al also gets burdened by an annoying dame... in a screeching Sally Struthers as Letteri's traveling gun moll...
All the characters on a post bank-heist GETAWAY (including the posse of crooked Texas businessman) in a road movie that, despite the flaws, is loaded with classic Peckinpah slow-motion gunfights, fistfights, slap-fights, car chases, cars exploding and a gritty aesthetic best described as classic 1950's Film Noir B&W soaked into 1970's brick-red, cash-green, burnt-brown, pallid-blue, dusk-yellow, faded-gray technicolor... Yeah, that'll do.
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Steve McQueen in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen in THE GETAWAY |
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Bo Hopkins in THE GETAWAY |
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Al Lettieri in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen in THE GETAWAY with Ali McGraw
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Steve McQueen in the prison opening of THE GETAWAY
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Steve McQueen in the prison opening of THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen in the prison opening of THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen in the prison opening of THE GETAWAY |
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Bo Hopkins as yet another Peckinpah wild card in THE GETAWAY
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Steve McQueen in THE GETAWAY with Ali MacGraw
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Steve McQueen in THE GETAWAY with an obscured Peckinpah regular Richard Bright
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY with Ali MacGraw
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Sally Struthers hungers for Al Lettieri in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY with Ali McGraw
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Al Lettieri and Bo Hopkins in THE GETAWAY
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY with Ali McGraw
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Sam Peckinpah showing children intrigued by violence again in THE GETAWAY
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A better autograph and personality than performance for THE GETAWAY
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No doubt of the very naturally gorgeous Ali MacGraw in THE GETAWAY
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You can count on STEVE McQUEEN as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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STEVE McQUEEN as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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STEVE McQUEEN as Doc McCoy in THE GETAWAY |
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BO HOPKINS in THE GETAWAY |
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