I watched The Getaway again this evening, and spent considerable time reading the reviews here, good and bad. My advice to the reader is, if you do not have this DVD movie in your collection of action movies, and you see it in a store, buy it regardless of the price. If it's a rental you will definitely not want to take it back. I have most of Peckinpah's films and this is my #2 favourite after The Wild Bunch. McQueen is the thinking man he was in Bullitt, and ex model Ali McGraw looks beautiful even when she is hurled out of the back of a garbage truck, the romance and chemistry between the pair is very sensitive and believable, with Quincy Jones music featuring legendary harmonica player Toots Thielemans. Perhaps he played at their wedding, they were married 5 yrs immediately after this movie. I do not think it was a shotgun wedding. The movie is a lot about shotguns. The cast is outstanding along with Brando's protégé Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens, Ben Johnson. It is after all a story of violence amongst bank robbers and corrupt cops, exciting car chases of course, with famed stuntman McQueen teaching Ali McGraw how to drive and shoot. I nevertheless love this Peckinpah film. I liked seeing them together Steve Mc Queen and Ali McGraw, and I really wish we could see something like it today in our movie theaters. First rate 9 stars Malcotoro in Toronto Jan 2007
Review of The Getaway
