Getaway!

Titolo originale: The Getaway
Regia: Sam Peckinpah |
Anno: 1972
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Crime Thriller
Tag: robbery | based on novel or book | texas | heist | con artist | murder | organized crime | on the run | bag of money | gunfight | bank robbery | double cross | neo-noir |
Cast: Steve McQueen | Ali MacGraw | Ben Johnson | Sally Struthers | Al Lettieri | Slim Pickens | Richard Bright | Jack Dodson | Dub Taylor | Bo Hopkins | Roy Jenson | John Bryson | Bill Hart | Tom Runyon | Whitney Jones | Raymond King | Ivan Thomas | C.W. White | Brenda W. King | W. Dee Kutach | Brick Lowry | Martin Colley | O.S. Savage | Dick Crockett | A.L. Camp | Bob Veal | Bruce Bissonette | Maggie Gonzalez | Jim Kannon | Doug Dudley | Stacy Newton | Tommy Bush | Stephen Douglas Butler | R.C. Keene | Margaret Mazzola | Hal Smith | Tommy Splittgerber |

"Doc" McCoy è rinchiuso in prigione perché i suoi complici lo hanno incastrato dopo aver scambiato un prigioniero per un bel po' di soldi. Doc sa che Jack Benyon, un ricco uomo "d'affari", sta per combinare qualcosa di grosso, una rapina in grande stile... quindi Doc scambia la sua libertà con la partecipazione alla rapina, messa a segno con alcuni complici. Questi ultimi vengono truffati da Doc che va in Messico con il malloppo e la moglie Carol, inseguito dalla sua ex banda e dalla polizia. Tratto da un romanzo di Jim Thompson, adattato e sceneggiato per il grande schermo da Walter Hill.

Approfondimenti

The scene with one of the robbers' bodies is lying on the ground and curious kids walking by is a st [...] D
Doc and Carol's adventure in the back of the garbage truck was the inspiration for the trash compact [...] D
At the time, Sam Peckinpah wanted to make L'imperatore del Nord (1973). The film's producer made a d [...] D
A conflict arose with Paramount concerning the film's budget. David Foster had 30 days to set up a n [...] D
Writer Jim Thompson was originally hired to adapt his own novel for the movie. Thompson worked on th [...] D
Steve McQueen had a knack with props, especially the weapons he used in the film. Walter Hill rememb [...] D
Al Lettieri was brought to Sam Peckinpah's attention by producer Albert S. Ruddy, who was working wi [...] D
The movie was supposed be directed by Peter Bogdanovich and star Cybill Shepherd, his girlfriend at [...] D
Steve McQueen recommended Sam Peckinpah as director, having just worked with him on L'ultimo buscade [...] D
Under his contract with First Artists, Steve McQueen had final cut on the film and when Sam Peckinpa [...] D
When Carol McCoy lists the exits to the First Bank of Beacon City, "One on Hopkins, one at Guadalupe [...] D
Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen got into occasional heated arguments during filming. The director re [...] D
When the police pull up to Jackson's body, the cross street is Hopkins Street. Jackson was played by [...] D
Impressed by his performance in Panico a Needle Park (1971), Walter Hill recommended Richard Bright [...] D
Hints that Rudy will be bad luck: His pedal-boat number is 13, and he plays with a black kitty at se [...] D
As hotelkeeper Laughlin (Dub Taylor) takes cover under a table during a violent shootout in his lobb [...] D
For this film, Ali MacGraw learned how to fire a gun and drive a car. D
Steve McQueen had been encouraging his publicist David W. Foster to become a film producer. His firs [...] D
The train station scenes were filmed in the former Southern Pacific Sunset station in San Antonio. A [...] D
Barry Foster suggested Ali MacGraw, then married to Robert Evans, for the film. Evans arranged a mee [...] D
At the drive-in restaurant, Doc and Carol are listening to a radio station that identifies itself wi [...] D
When Sam Peckinpah took over the film, he intended the female lead for Dyan Cannon, but changed his [...] D
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 3.5 seconds (1917 shots). D
The film was the eighth highest grossing picture of the year. D
"U.S. gunship downed over Laos, killing 14" reads the headline of a newspaper that Doc McCoy holds w [...] D
Shot almost entirely in sequence. D
Steve McQueen's semi-automatic handgun is a Colt M1911A1. D
The film was rated PG by the MPAA in the United States. A few years later, in retrospect, this was c [...] D
While Ali MacGraw appeared in this film, her husband Robert Evans was producing Il padrino (1972). C [...] D
This was the second movie in 1972 in which Al Lettieri played a bad guy in a movie about bad guys. I [...] D
Sam Peckinpah's intake of alcohol increased dramatically while making the film, and he was fond of s [...] D
When Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw are standing outside the car and McQueen suddenly slaps her, the [...] D
Sam Peckinpah shot the opening prison scenes at the Huntsville penitentiary, with Steve McQueen surr [...] D
Actual marked police cars were used in two of the towns used for shooting. "San Marcos Police Depart [...] D
The so-called bulletproof vest appeared to be body armor worn by Vietnam-era helicopter door gunners [...] D
According to David Foster, Ali MacGraw and Sam Peckinpah got along well, but she was not happy with [...] D
There was an extra playing Bo Hopkins' body. After he was shot, the stunt man did the roll from the [...] D
It was Steve McQueen's idea to have his character shoot and blow up a squad car, in the scene where [...] D
Farrah Fawcett was considered for the role of Carol McCoy. D
Sam Peckinpah originally wanted Jack Palance to play the role of Rudy Butler but could not afford hi [...] D
Evocative harmonica solos courtesy of jazz great Toots Thielemans. The music played at the end title [...] D
Matthew King Kaufman, co-manager of the band Earthquake, won some compensation for the unauthorized [...] D
Ernest Borgnine was originally announced as being part of the cast. D
The radio station playing at the drive-in restaurant is WHIL, an obvious reference to scriptwriter W [...] D
The orange Volkswagen Beetle that Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw pass as they flee town after the ban [...] D
According to "The Garner Files", Luis Delgado was working as Steve McQueen's stand-in. Delgado's wif [...] D
W. Dee Kutach, the Texas prison parole board chairman who denies Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) his parol [...] D
Interesting cultural facts: 1. The river swing scene is a popular spot at what was then Southwest Te [...] D
Throughout the filming, Ali MacGraw visibly wore a Love bracelet (Cartier) which had been a gift fro [...] D
Walter Hill named this as his favourite of the films he's written. D
Sam Peckinpah wanted Stella Stevens for the part of Carol McCoy, having worked with her on La ballat [...] D
Sam Peckinpah read the novel when it was originally published and talked to Jim Thompson about filmi [...] D
The film's original score was composed by frequent Sam Peckinpah collaborator Jerry Fielding, but wa [...] D
Despite being third-billed and having co-starring billing, Ben Johnson has only a handful of scenes. [...] D
Sam Peckinpah originally wanted Stella Stevens for his leading lady (after working with her in La ba [...] D
Paul Newman was considered for the role of Doc McCoy, but his agent didn't approve of the novel. D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...] D

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The gray Mercury driven by Carol at the drive-in hits at least one other car head on, yet in later s [...] D
(at around 1h 12 mins) There is nobody next to ticket office. On the next shot, there is a man at th [...] D
Doc checks into the hotel. Given room 318 and told, "Nobody on the floor. You're by yourself." Yet l [...] D
When Doc and Carol flee their shootout with the cops in the small town of Fabens, south of El Paso, [...] D
In the final shootout with Rudy in the hotel, Rudy's pistol alternates between the 6 inch barreled . [...] D
After the robbery, Doc meets Rudy at the barn. Doc fires a model 1911 pistol in .45 ACP at Rudy, but [...] D
In the train station, when Carol discovers that her locker key has been switched, she is holding the [...] D
During the chase after the drive-in a crew member holding a camera is clearly visible in the front p [...] D
Doc and Carol are stuck in the garbage truck at night. However, some shots of the vehicle's pneumati [...] D
When Rudy retrieves his gun from where Doc dropped it just before the final shoot out, he flips the [...] D
After Doc and Carol get away into Mexico with the truck driver, they offer him $30,000 for his truck [...] D
(at around 10 mins) Doc walks past the guardroom, by several yards, outside the prison, but in the n [...] D
When Rudy, Fran and Harold are in the car, Rudy throws a paper plate and BBQ sauce gets on the winds [...] D
During the bank robbery, the same couple walks past the main entrance twice. D
After the robbery, Doc and Carol's blue car plows through a neighboring porch. The windshield is cle [...] D
When Carol and Doc open the station locker and they realize that the grifter has stolen their money, [...] D
While waiting for Doc at the train station with the money bag, there was no reason for Carol to put [...] D
When Doc and Carol pull up to Benyon's Ranch, the driver's side of the white Ford wagon has 2 differ [...] D
Driving off in the raggedy old truck. Cardboard barrel on the left with a green striped steel barrel [...] D
After Doc and Carol arrive at the Ranch, as Doc exits the vehicle there is no one in the front seat. [...] D

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