Product Description

Steve McQueen ("The Great Escape") and Ali MacGraw ("Love Story") are at their finest as husband and wife thieves on the run in this classic Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch" "Straw Dogs") action-thriller. The sizzling screenplay by Walter Hill ("The Warriors" "The Driver") is based on a novel by pulp legend Jim Thompson ("The Grifters" "After Dark My Sweet"). The #5 box office hit of its year! Later remade with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.Running Time: 122 min.System Requirements:Runtime: 122 minsFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG UPC: 085391136903 Manufacturer No: 113690

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8764 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-02-27
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 123 minutes

Amazon.com essential video
It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. Not a great film, but a must for McQueen and Peckinpah fans. --Jeff Shannon

Amazon.com
It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. Not a great film, but a must for McQueen and Peckinpah fans. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Roger Donaldson's remake of the 1972 Sam Peckinpah movie, which starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw as husband-and-wife criminals on the lam, is so smoothly efficient that it makes the original's slickness and crassness look touchingly primitive. What's infuriating about the new movie is that Donaldson and his screenwriters, Walter Hill and Amy Jones, don't make the slightest effort to find a fresh perspective on the material. Alec Baldwin is very skillful, but this remake is so unmistakably still a Steve McQueen picture that he looks at times as if he had been superimposed on the film by some computer trickery in the editing room. (And Kim Basinger, too, is hampered by the script's fidelity to the 1972 movie.) The original was a big hit, and the filmmakers aren't about to mess with a proven commodity. Donaldson's version is craftsmanlike yet smug: it makes you feel nostalgia for the less pristine crumminess of bygone trash. With James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, and Michael Madsen (monotonously reprising the deadpan-sadist shtick he perfected in "Reservoir Dogs"). Based on a novel by Jim Thompson. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Mcqueen fan
As far as I'm concerned Steve McQueen can't do anything wrong. Love this film. What chemistry between Steve and Ali! The remake pales in comparison. See the original.

A Semi- Classic
The coolest actor, the coolest old cars and great car chase !
Put it all together and with a great story and you have a great movie!

Not dated at all !

The Getaway
An action packed thriller with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw leading a good cast directed by Sam Peckinpah that keeps you on the edge of your seats. One of Steve McQueen's best performances keeping you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. A must for every adventure collector.