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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Sam Peckinpah
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Actors:
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Slim Pickens,
Richard Bright,
Bo Hopkins,
Jack Dodson,
Ali MacGraw,
Al Lettieri,
Steve McQueen,
Ben Johnson,
Sally Struthers,
Dub Taylor
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Duration:
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122 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)93.5
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Plot Summary:
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Doc McCoy has been granted parole. The seize is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his generosity: robbing another bank! Beynon does not really intend to let McCoy walk away after the heist and neither does co-robber Rudy Butler, but stopping Doc proves a trifle hard.
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The Getaway
Fierce, amoral, terse and fast-in motion action melodrama which generally holds the interest despite its excesses.
The Getaway
Coming off the grave and commercial flop Junior Bonner, director Sam Peckinpah and important Steve McQueen were in foolhardy need of a slap movie. McQueen was offered this adaptation of a tough, fearless Jim Thompson untried and invited his pal Sam on game table when first-choice principal Peter Bogdanovich quit. The result was a smash hit that funded Peckinpah's remaining speed, hard up up McQueen and co-principal Ali MacGraw's marriages when they fell on Possibly man another and produced an effective, intermittently inspired thriller that remains a cult preferred. McQueen plays Doc McCoy, incarcerated in Texas for armed ransacking and slowly getting ground down before the burdensome prison system. Surprisingly, he makes parole. It's only later he discovers t...
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