The Getaway (35mm)

(Sam Peckinpah, US 1972, 123 min., 35mm)

Unreformed bank robber Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) asks his wife, Carol (Ali McGraw) to contact crooked businessman Jack Beynon (Ben Johnson) to spring him from jail early, in exchange for pulling a job. Instead of setting up the robbery with people he knows, Doc is forced to work with Beynon’s men and when the heist goes wrong, Doc and Carol find themselves on the run, from Beynon, double-crossing Rudy Butler (Al Lettieri), and the police. Adapted from the Jim Thompson novel by Walter Hill, Peckinpah’s box office smash is an exciting and dramatically complex action picture.