The Getaway (Blu-ray, Deluxe Edition) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 27, 2007
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve McQueen | |
Performer: | Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri & Slim Pickens | |
Directed by | Sam Peckinpah | |
Edited by | Robert L. Wolfe | |
Screenwriting by | Walter Hill | |
Composition by | Quincy Jones | |
Art Direction by | Ted Haworth | |
Story by | Jim Thompson | |
Produced by | David Foster & Mitchell Brower | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Relentlessly depicts ruthless robbery and murder, not to mention adultery, kidnaping, bribery, extortion, and general mayhem. The vivid direction and lightning pace, however, make the film completely fascinating.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/4 --
The Getaway is a big, glossy, impersonal mechanical toy. It's like one of those devices for executive desks, with the stainless steel balls on the strings: It functions with great efficiency but doesn't accomplish anything.
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Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Peckinpah's testosterone-fueled actioner stars McQueen as an ex-con...
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 4/5 --
A trashy good time!
eFilmCritic.com
Ranked #5 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- Sam Peckinpah's most ferociously entertaining film.
Uncut
Rating: 2/5 --
The action and the violence of The Getaway are supported by no particular themes whatsoever. The movie just unravels.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Tough as nails and very effective.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Product Description:
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.
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.
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