Product Details
- Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Sam Peckinpah
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- EAN: 9786303111872
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- Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6303111874
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- Label: Warner Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Home Video
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- Release Date: 1994-06-15
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- Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1972-12-13
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- Title: Getaway
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- UPC: 085391112235
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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
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