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* CoolGuns: Doc's semi-automatic handgun is a Colt [=M1911A1=].
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* 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.
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''The Getaway'' is a 1972 crime drama film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] and Ali [=MacGraw=]. It was based on the novel of the same name by Creator/JimThompson. Creator/WalterHill wrote the screenplay.

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''The Getaway'' is a 1972 crime drama film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] and Ali [=MacGraw=].Creator/AliMacGraw. It was based on the novel of the same name by Creator/JimThompson. Creator/WalterHill wrote the screenplay.
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* SexForServices: How Carol got Beynon to spring Doc from prison. Given the AbsoluteCleavage blouse she wore to the meeting, this seems to have been her plan all along, rather than ScarpiaUltimatum.

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* SexForServices: How Carol got Beynon to spring Doc from prison. Given the AbsoluteCleavage NavelDeepNeckline blouse she wore to the meeting, this seems to have been her plan all along, rather than ScarpiaUltimatum.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Carol wears a blouse open to the navel--it doesn't even have any buttons--to get Benyon to get Doc out of jail.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Carol wears a blouse open to the navel--it doesn't even have any buttons--to get Benyon to get Doc out of jail.


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* 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.
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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/TheGetaway third-person video game series]], or the pinball table ''[[Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2 The Getaway: High Speed II]]'', as well as the [[Film/{{Getaway}} 2013 film of the same name]].

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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/TheGetaway third-person video game series]], or the pinball table ''[[Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2 The Getaway: High Speed II]]'', as well as or the [[Film/{{Getaway}} 2013 film of the same name]].
''Film/{{Getaway}}''.

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* TheCameo: You can't see him, but that's James Garner driving the orange VW that Doc and Carol zoom past while fleeing the bank robbery.

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* 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.
* TheCameo: You can't see him, but that's James Garner Creator/JamesGarner driving the orange VW that Doc and Carol zoom past while fleeing the bank robbery.



* 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.



* 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.



* GroinAttack: During the robbery, Rudy shoots Frank in the groin and kicks him out of a moving car, killing him.



* PrisonersWork: Doc works a license plate machine.

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* PrisonersWork: Doc works The opening credits montage showcases Doc's prison routine, which includes him working on a license plate machine.line.



* {{Tuckerization}}: When the police pull up to Jackson's body, the cross street is Hopkins Street. Jackson was played by Bo Hopkins.



* 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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* WouldHitAGirl: Doc slaps Carol not once, but several times, after finding out that she had sex with Benyon to get Doc out of jail.
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jail. He also hits Fran to shut her up in the original.
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''The Getaway'' is a 1972 crime drama film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor and Ali [=MacGraw=]. It was based on the novel of the same name by Creator/JimThompson. Creator/WalterHill wrote the screenplay.

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''The Getaway'' is a 1972 crime drama film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] and Ali [=MacGraw=]. It was based on the novel of the same name by Creator/JimThompson. Creator/WalterHill wrote the screenplay.
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* GarbargeHideout: Doc and Carol jump into a dumpster to evade detection by the cops.

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* GarbargeHideout: GarbageHideout: Doc and Carol jump into a dumpster to evade detection by the cops.
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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/TheGetaway third-person video game]], or the pinball table ''[[Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2 The Getaway: High Speed II]]'', as well as the [[Film/{{Getaway}} 2013 film of the same name]].

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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/TheGetaway third-person video game]], game series]], or the pinball table ''[[Pinball/TheGetawayHighSpeed2 The Getaway: High Speed II]]'', as well as the [[Film/{{Getaway}} 2013 film of the same name]].
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* 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.
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* VillainProtagonist: Doc and Carol are bank robbery, but presented as the heroes to the point where the viewer is actively rooting for them to get away.

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* VillainProtagonist: Doc and Carol are bank robbery, robbers, but presented as the heroes to the point where the viewer is actively rooting for them to get away.
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* StockholmSyndrome: A possible explanation for the behaviour of Fran... though hardly enough to excuse her behaviour: she has sex with Rudy, the man who kidnapped her and his husband while the latter is locked in the adiacent bathroom and forced to listen, which drives him to commit suicide.

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* StockholmSyndrome: A possible explanation for the behaviour behavior of Fran... though hardly enough to excuse her behaviour: behavior: she has sex with Rudy, the man who kidnapped her and his her husband while the latter is locked in the adiacent adjacent bathroom and forced to listen, which drives him to commit suicide.
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* GarbargeHideout: Doc and Carol jump into a dumpster to evade detection by the cops.
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* VillainProtagonist: Doc and Carol are bank robbery, but presented as the heroes to the point where the viewer is actively rooting for them to get away.
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* BetaCouple: Fran and Rudy, who hook up while Rudy is chasing after Doc and Carol (and kidnapping Hal and Rudy).

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* BetaCouple: Fran and Rudy, who hook up while Rudy is chasing after Doc and Carol (and kidnapping Hal and Rudy).Fran).
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* BetaCouple: Fran and Rudy, who hook up while Rudy is chasing after Doc and Carol.

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* BetaCouple: Fran and Rudy, who hook up while Rudy is chasing after Doc and Carol.Carol (and kidnapping Hal and Rudy).
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* ClosestThingWeveGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.

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* ClosestThingWeveGot: ClosestThingWeGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.
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* ClosetThingWeveGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.

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* ClosetThingWeveGot: ClosestThingWeveGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.



* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Hal. Being tied up and ForcedToawatch your wife having vigorous sex with a criminal will do that to a guy.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Hal. Being tied up and ForcedToawatch ForcedToWatch your wife having vigorous sex with a criminal will do that to a guy.

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* 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.



* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Hal. Being tied up and forced to watch your wife having vigorous sex with a criminal will do that to a guy.

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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Carol in both versions.
* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Hal. Being tied up and forced to watch ForcedToawatch your wife having vigorous sex with a criminal will do that to a guy.



* LaserGuidedKarma: After hanging all over and flirting with Rudy, then sleeping with him practically 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.
* 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 Beynon was going to have Carol kill Doc--but Carol shoots Beynon instead.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: After hanging all over and flirting with Rudy, then sleeping with him practically 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.
* 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 Beynon Benyon was going to have Carol kill Doc--but Carol shoots Beynon Benyon instead.



* 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 cop wants him to pull OneLastJob, and the plot starts rolling... anyway, towards the end, the cop 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.'
* ScreamingWoman: It becomes plain that Fran is over her head during the climactic shootout, as Rudy, Doc & Carol, and Beynon'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.

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* 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 cop businessman wants him to pull OneLastJob, and the plot starts rolling... anyway, towards the end, the cop 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.'
* ScreamingWoman: It becomes plain that Fran is over her head during the climactic shootout, as Rudy, Doc & Carol, and Beynon's 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.



* WouldHitAGirl: Doc slaps Carol not once, but several times, after finding out that she had sex with Beynon to get Doc out of jail.

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* WouldHitAGirl: Doc slaps Carol not once, but several times, after finding out that she had sex with Beynon Benyon to get Doc out of jail.

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* ClosetThingWeveGot: The injured Rudy drives to a veterinarian's house for help.



* DumbBlonde: Fran in the original, and ''how''.



* ImagineSpot: Doc and Carol visit a park after he gets out of prison and he imagines them jumping into the lake for a swim.



* PerformanceAnxiety: Doc and Carol are understandably nervous about making love after he gets out of prison.



* ScreamingWoman: It becomes plain that Fran is over her head during the climactic shootout, as Rudy, Doc & Carol, and Beynon's goons are shooting up both a hotel and each other. Doc punches her to shut her up.

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* ScreamingWoman: It becomes plain that Fran is over her head during the climactic shootout, as Rudy, Doc & Carol, and Beynon's goons are shooting up both a hotel and each other. Doc punches her to shut her up.up, while in the remake, it's Carol who does this.



* ShowerOfLove: In the remake, the [McCoys] make their reconciliation official by having one of these that eventually moves to its proper location—a bed.

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* ShowerOfLove: In the remake, the [McCoys] [=McCoys=] make their reconciliation official by having one of these that eventually moves to its proper location—a bed.
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** He also hits Fran to shut her up in the original.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Carol wears a blouse open to the navel--it doesn't even have any buttons--to get Beynon to get Doc out of jail.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Carol wears a blouse open to the navel--it doesn't even have any buttons--to get Beynon Benyon to get Doc out of jail.


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* 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.

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