The Getaway
1972, PG, 122 min.
D: Sam Peckinpah; with Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw.

The Getaway is probably Peckinpah’s most commercially popular film. The star wattage of on- and off-screen couple Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw explained much of the popular interest in the movie. But beyond that, The Getaway is a solid chase movie about a bank robber and his wife. The story comes from Jim Thompson’s book, and the screenplay was written by Walter Hill.

This article appears in November 5 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.