The Getaway

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Thriller
12/13/1972
123
PG

It takes two to make it … The big two.

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

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Revenue:
$36,734,619
Budget:
$3,352,254

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  • Wuchak

    Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and others chasing a bag of cash in Texas

    A prisoner in Huntsville (McQueen) is released early due to his wife (MacGraw) making a deal with a corrupt official (Ben Johnson). The cost of his freedom is to head a bank heist in San Marcos with the officers questionable henchmen (Al Lettieri and Bo Hopkins). O, what a tangled web we weave.

    The Getaway (1972) is a crime thriller written by Walter Hill based on Jim Thompsons book and was director Sam Peckinpahs second most successful film at the box office, after Convoy six years later. It was remade in 1994 with Alec Baldwin and influenced soon-to-come movies like The Outfit, "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry," "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and The Gauntlet, as well a...

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