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3	''The Getaway'' is a 1972 crime drama film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] and Creator/AliMacGraw. It was based on the novel of the same name by Creator/JimThompson. Creator/WalterHill wrote the screenplay.
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5	Gordon "Doc" [=McCoy=] is denied parole after serving four years of a ten-year sentence for armed robbery. Having had enough of jail, he gets his wife Carol to approach Benyon, a crooked politician. Carol secures Doc's release in a way that Doc later does not approve of at all. Newly freed Doc is given a job by Benyon: rob a certain small-town bank. Doc, Carol, a thug of Benyon's named Rudy, and a RedShirt thug pull off the bank robbery, but not without spilling some blood. As is usual with bank robberies in the movies, the criminals start turning on each other, and Doc and Carol wind up having to flee from Benyon's goons and the law both.
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7	A {{remake}}, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/KimBasinger, was released in 1994.
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9	Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/TheGetaway third-person video game series]], or the pinball table ''[[Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2 The Getaway: High Speed II]]'', or the 2013 film ''Film/{{Getaway}}''.
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12	!!Tropes seen in both films:
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14	* ActionGirl: Carol, who helps with the robbery and who isn't afraid to pick up a gun and start shooting during the climactic firefight.
15	* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novel, Doc kills the guard, while in the movie it's Frank that kills the guard. And in the novel, Doc also kills Fran, while Fran survives the movie.
16	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Fran falls for Rudy almost instantly, finding him much more sexy and exciting that her milquetoast veterinarian husband.
17	** Possibly because of LimaSyndrome (on the part of Rudy, only towards Fran) and StockholmSyndrome (on the part of Fran, towards Rudy), making this AMatchMadeInStockholm.
18	** To a lesser extent with Doc and Carol. Although the two are genuinely in love and HappilyMarried, the bottom line is, Doc is a bank robber and this is probably a huge part of his appeal to Carol.
19	* AntiHero: Not only is Doc a bank robber, he hits his wife. About the only good thing that can be said of him is that unlike just about every other character in the movie, including Carol, he doesn't kill unless he has to.
20	* BaitAndSwitch: Doc goes to Benyon his share of the money. As they talk, Benyon tells him about his and Carol's liaison and insinuates that he has been set up for an ambush. All the while, we see Carol walking into the room, gun drawn. . .but she shoots Benyon, not Doc. Though there is a moment where they aim at each other, frozen in shock and horror.
21	* BallisticDiscount: Done in the 1994 remake, though Doc mercifully doesn't shoot the guy and probably wasn't even planning to rob him until he realized the police were nearby and he needed to escape. The jaded store owner practically does everything ''without'' Doc ordering him to, indicating that he's been through this many times before.
22	* BankRobbery: A crooked politician hires Doc to rob a bank.
23	* BetaCouple: Fran and Rudy, who hook up while Rudy is chasing after Doc and Carol (and kidnapping Hal and Fran).
24	* BleedEmAndWeep: Carol is shell-shocked after she kills Beynon.
25	* BulletproofVest: Doc realises that Rudy is attempting to betray him and shoots him several times and leaves him for dead. He survives thanks to his bulletproof vest.
26	* TheCameo: You can't see him, but that's Creator/JamesGarner driving the orange VW that Doc and Carol zoom past while fleeing the bank robbery.
27	* ClosestThingWeGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.
28	* DisneyVillainDeath: Doc kills a man this way, shooting the elevator cables out so that the crash breaks every bone in his body when the elevator crashes to the bottom.
29	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Carol in both versions.
30	* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Hal. Being tied up and ForcedToWatch your wife having vigorous sex with a criminal will do that to a guy.
31	* DumbBlonde: Fran in the original, and ''how''.
32	* EmasculatedCuckold: Fran and Rudy do this to her husband Hal in thoroughly humiliating fashion, with Fran fawning over Rudy the second she meets him, even though he's an escaped criminal having taken them hostage, and him immediately bullying Hal and ordering him around. By the time they actually have sex in front of him, it's his breaking point and he hangs himself.
33	* FakeShemp: An extra playing Bo Hopkins' corpse. After he was shot, a stunt man did the roll from the car, and the extra was on the pavement as the police cars drove up and the kids looked on.
34	* GarbageHideout: Doc and Carol jump into a dumpster to evade detection by the cops.
35	* GroinAttack: During the robbery, Rudy shoots Frank in the groin and kicks him out of a moving car, killing him.
36	* HappilyEverBefore: The film omits the final chapter of the book.
37	* ImagineSpot: Doc and Carol visit a park after he gets out of prison and he imagines them jumping into the lake for a swim.
38	* LaserGuidedKarma: After hanging all over and flirting with Rudy, sleeping with him right in front of her husband, then not having the slightest bit of remorse after he kills himself, Fran is left alone and devastated--and stranded in a strange town miles from home when Rudy himself is killed.
39	* NavelDeepNeckline: Carol wears a blouse open to the navel--it doesn't even have any buttons--to get Benyon to get Doc out of jail.
40	* NoHonorAmongThieves: Rudy kills Frank, which might be understandable as Frank had screwed up the plan and shot the guard. Then he tries to kill Doc and take all the money, but Doc is a quicker draw and shoots Rudy. Then it turns out that Benyon was going to have Carol kill Doc--but Carol shoots Benyon instead.
41	* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Doc and Carol, driving off down a dusty Mexican road, having escaped the law and bought the truck from the cowboy for $30,000.
42	* OutlawCouple: Doc and Carol.
43	* PerformanceAnxiety: Doc and Carol are understandably nervous about making love after he gets out of prison.
44	* PervyPatdown: Benyon's henchman is clearly enjoying frisking Carol. Plus, she's in a skimpy, skintight dress, so it's already obvious that she's not carrying a weapon.
45	* PhallicWeapon: Fran is not at all subtle when she tells Rudy that he doesn't need to point a gun at her, she'll do ''anything'' he wants, while she fondles the barrel of said weapon.
46	* PragmaticAdaptation: Thompson's novel included a surrealistic, controversial ending in which Doc and Carol end up in a weird hotel that seems to actually be {{Hell}}. The movie got rid of that ending for a more conventional one in which Doc and Carol actually do get away.
47	* PrisonersWork: The opening credits montage showcases Doc's prison routine, which includes him working on a license plate line.
48	* RunForTheBorder: Amazingly, unlike how this usually turns out in crime dramas, Doc and Carol make it, given a lift out of a jam and across the border by a genial cowboy.
49	* ScarpiaUltimatum: This happens in the remake. Doc had been stuck in a Mexican jail (NOT nice) for a while, and suddenly got released. However, now a crooked businessman wants him to pull OneLastJob, and the plot starts rolling... anyway, towards the end, the businessman betrays them (of course) and in the process reveals that Carol actually slept with him in order to get her hubby out of prison. He's not happy, but it does work out in the end... which makes it a rare example where it actually went through — albeit 'offscreen.'
50	* ScreamingWoman: It becomes plain that Fran is over her head during the climactic shootout, as Rudy, Doc & Carol, and Benyon's goons are shooting up both a hotel and each other. Doc punches her to shut her up, while in the remake, it's Carol who does this.
51	* SettingUpdate: The novel was set in the 1940s, while both films are set in their respective contemporary times.
52	* SexForServices: How Carol got Beynon to spring Doc from prison. Given the NavelDeepNeckline blouse she wore to the meeting, this seems to have been her plan all along, rather than ScarpiaUltimatum.
53	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Doc's weapon of choice. When he sees that some cops have shown up, he hurriedly buys a shotgun from a conveniently nearby gun store, then shoots up the cop car and escapes.
54	* ShowerOfLove: In the remake, the [=McCoys=] make their reconciliation official by having one of these that eventually moves to its proper location—a bed.
55	* SparedByTheAdaptation: Fran dies in the novel.
56	* StealingFromTheTill: Why Benyon wanted Doc to rob that particular bank, he'd been cooking his books. Doc figures this out around the time that the news reports $750,000 stolen when he only has $500,000 in his bag.
57	* StockholmSyndrome: A possible explanation for the behavior of Fran... though hardly enough to excuse her behavior: she has sex with Rudy, the man who kidnapped her and her husband while the latter is locked in the adjacent bathroom and forced to listen, which drives him to commit suicide.
58	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Some fanservice from Carol. Doc's nervous about their first time in four years.
59	* {{Tuckerization}}: When the police pull up to Jackson's body, the cross street is Hopkins Street. Jackson was played by Bo Hopkins.
60	* VillainProtagonist: Doc and Carol are bank robbers, but presented as the heroes to the point where the viewer is actively rooting for them to get away.
61	* WouldHitAGirl: Doc slaps Carol not once, but several times, after finding out that she had sex with Benyon to get Doc out of jail. He also hits Fran to shut her up in the original.

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