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The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson.[1]

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  1. 139 relations: Abraham Chavez Theatre, Across 110th Street, Action film, Al Lettieri, Albert S. Ruddy, Alec Baldwin, Alfred Hitchcock, Ali MacGraw, AllMovie, Angie Dickinson, Audio commentary, Barbra Streisand, Ben Johnson (actor), Blu-ray, Bo Hopkins, Bonnie and Clyde (film), Box set, Brakeman, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Bulletproof vest, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Candice Bergen, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, CHUD.com, Crown Publishing Group, Cybill Shepherd, David Foster (film producer), David Morse, David Weddle, Directors Guild of America, Don Elliott, Dub Taylor, DVD, Dyan Cannon, El Paso Chihuahuas, El Paso Civic Center, El Paso, Texas, Emperor of the North Pole, Entertainment Weekly, Fandango Media, Featurette, Film International, Film producer, Film score, Final cut privilege, First Artists, Gene Siskel, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Great Depression, ... Expand index (89 more) »

  2. Films based on Jim Thompson novels
  3. Films directed by Sam Peckinpah
  4. Films scored by Quincy Jones
  5. Films shot in San Antonio
  6. Films with screenplays by Walter Hill
  7. First Artists films

Abraham Chavez Theatre

Abraham Chavez Theatre, known simply as the Chavez Theatre, is a 2,500-seat concert hall located in El Paso, Texas.

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Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street is a 1972 American neo noir action thriller film directed by Barry Shear and starring Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa and Paul Benjamin. The Getaway (1972 film) and Across 110th Street are 1970s action thriller films, 1970s crime thriller films, American action thriller films and American crime thriller films.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Al Lettieri

Alfredo Lettieri (February 24, 1928 – October 18, 1975) was an American actor.

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Albert S. Ruddy

Albert Stotland Ruddy (March 28, 1930 – May 25, 2024) was a Canadian-American film and television producer.

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Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Ali MacGraw

Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson (born Angeline Brown; September 30, 1931) is a retired American actress.

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An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.

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Ben Johnson (actor)

Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Bo Hopkins

William Mauldin "Bo" Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) Issue was an American actor.

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Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The Getaway (1972 film) and Bonnie and Clyde (film) are American chase films, American neo-noir films, films about bank robbery and films set in Texas.

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Box set

A boxed set or (its US name) box set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box, hence 'boxed', and offered for sale as a single unit.

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Brakeman

A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons.

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 Mexican-American neo-Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles. The Getaway (1972 film) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia are 1970s action thriller films, American action thriller films and films directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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Bulletproof vest

A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest, is an item of body armour that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the torso by firearm-fired projectiles and fragmentation from explosions.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. The Getaway (1972 film) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are films about bank robbery.

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Candice Bergen

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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CHUD.com

CHUD.com, also known as Cinematic Happenings Under Development, was an American film review and film news website created by Nick Nunziata in 1999 which is currently owned by Bigfoot Entertainment.

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Crown Publishing Group

The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories.

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model.

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David Foster (film producer)

David Foster (1929 – December 23, 2019) was an American film producer, with credits in films such as The Thing (1982), The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Core (2003).

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David Morse

David Bowditch Morse (born October 11, 1953) is an American actor.

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David Weddle

David Weddle is an American television writer and producer known for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996–1999), The Twilight Zone (2002–2003), Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009-2011), Falling Skies (2011-2013), and The Strain (2014-2017) with writing partner Bradley Thompson.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Don Elliott

Don Elliott Helfman (October 21, 1926 – July 5, 1984), known as Don Elliott, was an American jazz trumpeter, vibraphonist, vocalist, and mellophone player.

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Dub Taylor

Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994)Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, filmmaker and editor.

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El Paso Chihuahuas

The El Paso Chihuahuas are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.

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El Paso Civic Center

Judson F. Williams Convention Center, more commonly known as the El Paso Convention Center, is located on Santa Fe Street in downtown El Paso, Texas, adjacent to the Abraham Chavez Theatre.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Emperor of the North Pole

Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American action adventure film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, and Charles Tyner.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Featurette

In the American film industry, a featurette is a kind of film that is shorter than a full-length feature, but longer than a short film.

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Film International

Film International is a quarterly academic journal (with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering film studies.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees film production.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Final cut privilege

Final cut privilege (also known as final cutting authority) is the right or entitlement of an individual to determine the final version of a motion picture for distribution and exhibition.

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First Artists

First Artists was a production company that operated from 1969 to 1980. The Getaway (1972 film) and First Artists are first Artists films.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock.

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HD DVD

HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete.

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Heist film

The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime films and the caper story, focused on the planning, execution, and aftermath of a significant robbery.

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Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film written by Walter Hill and directed by Robert Culp. The Getaway (1972 film) and Hickey & Boggs are American neo-noir films and films with screenplays by Walter Hill.

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who reported on the American entertainment industry for predominantly foreign media markets.

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Huntsville Unit

Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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Huntsville, Texas

Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Jack Dodson

John Smeaton "Jack" Dodson (May 16, 1931 – September 16, 1994) was an American television actor best remembered for the milquetoast character Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off Mayberry R.F.D. From 1959 until his death in 1994, Dodson was married to television art director Mary Dodson.

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Jack Palance

Walter Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Ivanovich Palahniuk (Володимир Іванович Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.

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James Woods

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor.

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Jay Cocks

John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter.

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Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16, 1958) is an American–Canadian actress and professional poker player.

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Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)Redman, Nick.

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Jim Thompson (writer)

James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.

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John Simon (critic)

John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic.

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Junior Bonner

Junior Bonner is a 1972 American contemporary Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker and Ida Lupino. The Getaway (1972 film) and Junior Bonner are films directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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Kim Basinger

Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an American actress.

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Le Mans (film)

Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin.

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List of 1973 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1973 per Variety.

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List of American films of 1972

This is a list of American films released in 1972.

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Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 novel of the same name.

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Lucien Ballard

Lucien Ballard (May 6, 1908 – October 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen (born September 25, 1958) is an American actor.

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MovieMaker

MovieMaker is a magazine, website and podcast network focused on the art and business of filmmaking with a special emphasis on independent film.

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National General Pictures

National General Corporation (NGC) was a theater chain holding company, film distribution and production company and was considered one of the "instant majors".

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Pan and scan

Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Paul Monash

Paul Monash (June 14, 1917 – January 14, 2003) was an American television and film producer and screenwriter.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Петар Богдановић; July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Polly Platt

Mary Marr "Polly" Platt (January 29, 1939 – July 27, 2011) was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.

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Preppy

Preppy (also spelled as preppie), or prep, is an American subculture associated with the alumni of college-preparatory schools in the Northeastern United States.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.

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Richard Bright (actor)

Richard James Bright (June 28, 1937 – February 18, 2006) was an American actor, known for his role as Al Neri in the Godfather trilogy.

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Richard D. Zanuck

Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer.

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Robert Evans

Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera; June 29, 1930October 26, 2019) was an American film producer who worked on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974).

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Robert L. Wolfe

Robert L. Wolfe (July 5, 1928 – February 28, 1981) was an American film editor.

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Roger Donaldson

Roger Lindsey Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Roy Jenson

Roy Cameron Jenson, also known and credited as Roy Jensen (February 9, 1927 – April 24, 2007), was a Canadian American football player, stuntman, and actor.

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Safe house

A safe house (also spelled safehouse) is a dwelling place or building whose unassuming appearance makes it an inconspicuous location where one can hide out, take shelter, or conduct clandestine activities.

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Sally Struthers

Sally Anne Struthers (born July 28, 1947) is an American actress and activist.

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Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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San Marcos, Texas

San Marcos is a city and the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States.

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Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

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Slim Pickens

Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer.

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Southwest University Park

Southwest University Park is a baseball stadium in El Paso, Texas.

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Stanley Kauffmann

Stanley Kauffmann (April 24, 1916 – October 9, 2013) was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater.

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Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress.

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Steve McQueen

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.

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Straw Dogs (1971 film)

Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The Getaway (1972 film) and Straw Dogs (1971 film) are films directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 American Technicolor Western comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner. The Getaway (1972 film) and The Ballad of Cable Hogue are films directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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The Getaway (1994 film)

The Getaway is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. The Getaway (1972 film) and the Getaway (1994 film) are American action thriller films, American chase films, American crime thriller films, American heist films, English-language action thriller films, films about adultery in the United States, films about bank robbery, films based on Jim Thompson novels, films based on crime novels, films set in Texas and films with screenplays by Walter Hill.

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The Getaway (novel)

The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.

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The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, adapted from the Robert Syd Hopkins novel Monkey in the Middle. It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as a pair of elite mercenaries who become bitter rivals and are caught on opposite sides of a proxy war over a foreign dignitary in the streets of San Francisco. The Getaway (1972 film) and the Killer Elite are 1970s action thriller films and films directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry. The Getaway (1972 film) and the Last Picture Show are films set in Texas.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Panic in Needle Park

The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino (in his first lead role) and Kitty Winn.

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name.

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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The Getaway (1972 film) and The Wild Bunch are films directed by Sam Peckinpah and films set in Texas.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician.

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Typecasting

In film, television, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character, one or more particular roles, or characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Walter Hill

Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his action films and revival of the Western genre.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Water gun

A water gun (or water pistol, water blaster, or squirt gun) is a type of toy gun designed to shoot jets of water.

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What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)

What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

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Widescreen

Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens.

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1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved several significant events.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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See also

Films based on Jim Thompson novels

Films directed by Sam Peckinpah

Films scored by Quincy Jones

Films shot in San Antonio

Films with screenplays by Walter Hill

First Artists films

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Getaway_(1972_film)

Also known as The Getaway (1972 movie).

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