The Getaway

SYNOPSIS

In this gripping landmark thriller, ex-convict Steve McQueen and his wife Ali MacGraw head off to Mexico after a bank robbery backfires, pursued by crazed partner-in-crime Al Lettieri and the heavily armed henchmen of crime boss Ben Johnson. Directed by the master of screen violence, Sam Peckinpah, and scripted by Walter Hill from a novel by Jim Thompson, it's a modern western, a tough, disconcerting fable exploring the human soul, set in the barren landscapes of the Texan desert. The charismatic McQueen has to face the unpalatable truth about how MacGraw secured his release from jail as their relationship - literally - comes under fire in a hail of bullets. In real life, though, the stars fell in love and subsequently married.