# The Getaway (1972)

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**Runtime**: 123 min
**Genres**: Action, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Sam Peckinpah
**Written by**: Walter Hill
**Starring**: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens

> *It takes two to make it … The big two.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert highway at dusk with screeching tires, a botched heist unfolding, a bloodied face. 
A couple flees in a stolen car. 
Peckinpah directs a tense thriller.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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