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The Getaway ()

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A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
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Doc McCoy
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Carol McCoy
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Jack Beynon
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Fran Clinton
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Rudy Butler
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Cowboy
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The Thief
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Harold Clinton
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Laughlin
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Frank Jackson
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Cully
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The Accountant
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Swain
Tom Runyon ...
Hayhoe
Whitney Jones ...
The Soldier
Raymond King ...
Boy on the Train
Ivan Thomas ...
Boy on the Train
C.W. White ...
Boy's Mother
Brenda W. King ...
Boy's Mother
W. Dee Kutach ...
Parole Board Chairman
Brick Lowry ...
Parole Board Commissioner
Martin Colley ...
McCoy's Lawyer
O.S. Savage ...
Field Captain
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Bank Guard
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Hardware Store Owner
Bob Veal ...
TV Shop Proprietor
Bruce Bissonette ...
Sporting Goods Salesman
Maggie Gonzalez ...
Carhop
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Cannon
Doug Dudley ...
Max
Stacy Newton ...
Stacy
Tommy Bush ...
Cowboy's Helper (as Tom Bush)
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Male Teen at Drive-Up-Diner (uncredited)
Robert M. Cousins ...
Prison Warden (uncredited)
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Beacon City parade / robbery witness (uncredited)
Margaret Mazzola ...
Car Hop #1 (uncredited)
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Various Radio Announcers (uncredited)
Tommy Splittgerber ...
Train Station Ticket Agent (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sam Peckinpah

Written by

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Walter Hill ... (screenplay)
 
Jim Thompson ... (novel)

Produced by

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Mitchell Brower ... producer
Gordon T. Dawson ... associate producer
David Foster ... producer
Steve McQueen ... executive producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Quincy Jones

Cinematography by

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Lucien Ballard ... director of photography

Editing by

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Robert L. Wolfe ... (as Robert Wolfe)

Editorial Department

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Mike Klein ... assistant film editor
Bill Lindemann ... assistant film editor (as William G. Lindemann)
Roger Spottiswoode ... editorial consultant

Casting By

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Patricia Mock

Art Direction by

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Angelo P. Graham ... (as Angelo Graham)
Ted Haworth

Set Decoration by

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George R. Nelson

Makeup Department

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Kathryn Blondell ... hair stylist (as Kathy Blondell)
Al Fleming ... makeup artist
Jack Petty ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Don Guest ... production manager (as Donald Guest)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Newt Arnold ... assistant director
Gordon T. Dawson ... second unit director
Ron Wright ... assistant director
Lorin Bennett Salob ... second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Chalo González ... assistant property master (as Chalo Gonzalez)
Les Hallett ... assistant property master
Robert J. Visciglia Sr. ... property master (as Robert J. Visciglia)
Jarrell Jay Knowles ... props (uncredited)
Wes Webb ... carpenter (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Michael Colgan ... sound editor (as Mike Colgan)
Garth Craven ... sound consultant
Michael J. Kohut ... boom operator (as Michael Kohut)
Richard Portman ... re-recording mixer
Josef von Stroheim ... sound editor (as Joe von Stroheim)
Charles M. Wilborn ... sound mixer
Walter A. Gest ... sound re-recordist (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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Bud Hulburd ... special effects

Stunts

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Gary Combs ... stunts (uncredited)
Dick Crockett ... stunts (uncredited)
Cody Diamond ... stunts (uncredited)
Donna Garrett ... stunts (uncredited)
Bill Hart ... stunts (uncredited)
Whitey Hughes ... stunts (uncredited)
Loren Janes ... stunt double: Steve McQueen (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited)
Carey Loftin ... stunts (uncredited)
Bob Terhune ... stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Gaylin P. Schultz ... key grip
Mel Traxel ... still photographer
Harry Young ... first assistant camera (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Kent James ... costumer: men
Barbara Siebert ... costumer: women
Ray Summers ... costume supervisor
James M. George ... wardrobe (uncredited)

Music Department

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Dan Carlin Sr. ... music editor (as Dan Carlin)
Don Elliott ... musical voices
Jerry Fielding ... composer: unused music
Toots Thielemans ... musician: harmonica solos
Ray Brown ... musician: acoustic double bass (uncredited)
Dennis Budimir ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Don Elliott ... musician: vibraphone (uncredited)
Clare Fischer ... musician: synthesizer (uncredited)
Dave Grusin ... musician: keyboards (uncredited)
Harvey W. Mason ... musician: drums (uncredited)
Richard Nash ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Chuck Rainey ... musician: electric bass (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Michael Preece ... script supervisor

Transportation Department

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Joseph Lockwood ... driver (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Joan Arnold ... production secretary
Joie Gould ... assistant to producer
Katherine Haber ... dialogue director (as Katy Haber)

Thanks

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Warren Skaaren ... thanks: executive director, Texas Film Commission
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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Carter "Doc" McCoy is a career robber, currently in his fourth year of a 10-year prison sentence at the Texas State Penitentiary. After his request for parole is denied although he's a model prisoner, Doc, unable emotionally to endure life inside, asks his loving wife Carol McCoy to contact crooked businessman Jack Beynon, a man with political connections, to secure his release in return for being "for sale" to Beynon. Beynon is able to get Doc released, the sale price being for Doc to plan and execute a robbery at a small bank branch in Beacon City, Texas where Beynon knows that $750,000 will be kept in the vault for the next two weeks. Rather than Doc using his own men for the job, Beynon directs that the only other people involved will be the men of his own choosing, Rudy and Frank. There are to be no casualties, which is all right with Doc who is not a murderer. After the robbery is completed and the monies divvied up accordingly, Doc and Carol will cross the border into Mexico to live out their lives away from capture. The robbery doesn't go according to Doc's plan, and Doc and Carol go on the run making their way into Mexico with their share of the loot. Various people are in their pursuit, some who know that they will try to cross into Mexico at one of the two major West Texas border crossings. Other bystanders get directly or indirectly involved in the proceedings; two of those people, seeming straight-laced couple Fran and Harold Clinton, get much more intimately involved than the others. Though it all, Doc and Carol must work through some of their own issues, which arise out of a revelation about Doc's release from prison. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • Getaway (France)
  • Guet-apens (France)
  • Le Guet-apens (France)
  • The Getaway - Ihre Chance ist gleich Null (Germany)
  • The Getaway - Ihre Chance ist gleich null (Germany)
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Runtime
  • 123 min
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Box Office

Budget $3,352,254 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $58,831,997

Did You Know?

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Trivia Sam Peckinpah's intake of alcohol increased dramatically while making the film, and he was fond of saying, "I can't direct when I'm sober." See more »
Goofs After the robbery, Doc and Carol's blue car plows through a neighboring porch. The windshield is clearly shattered by one of the broken porch columns. As soon as they are out of town, the blue car is immaculate. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002). See more »
Soundtracks The Stars and Stripes Forever See more »
Quotes Rudy Butler: That's a walk-in bank. You don't have to be Dillinger for this one.
Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Dillinger got killed.
Rudy Butler: Not in a bank.
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