The Getaway

This is Sam Peckinpah completely selling out to Steve McQueen in order to find some kind of financial success, and it works. It’s not deep. It’s not moving. It is pretty consistently entertaining, though. This is a Steve McQueen vehicle first and foremost, and Peckinpah brings the professional quality to the action and direction something like this needs.

Doc McCoy (McQueen) gets rejected for parole in prison, so he tells his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to go to Jack Beynon (Ben Johnson) and...