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© -DR-Steve McQueen- THE GETAWAY p11
27/02/2012 11:09
en bas à droite le réalisateur Sam Peckinpah
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Trivia
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The orange Volkswagen Beetle that Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw pass as they flee town after the bank heist is driven by James Garner. Garner had been visiting a friend on the shoot and was hired for his vehicular skills by stunt coordinator Carey Loftin. *
In the scene where Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw are standing outside the car and McQueen suddenly slaps her, the slap was unscripted, as can be seen by McGraw's shocked reaction. *
According to "The Garner Files", Luis Delgado was working as Steve McQueen's stand-in. Luis' wife bought him a custom van, built by Tony Nancy, for his birthday. James Garner volunteered to drive the van from Los Angeles to San Antonio to surprise Luis. While on the set of The Getaway, Jim drove an orange VW Beetle in the robbery scene. When Jim asked the director, Sam Peckinpah, to be paid for the car stunt, Sam asked "How much do you want?". Jim said "Just give me what you think it's worth." Sam reached in his pocket pulled out $1. Jim later said he had so much fun doing the stunt, he would have paid Sam.
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The film was rated PG by the MPAA in the United States. A few years later, in retrospect, this was considered a mistake and the board believed that the film should have been rated (what was then) one step higher, an R.
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Shot almost entirely in sequence.
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For this film, Ali MacGraw learned how to fire a gun and drive a car. *
Hints that Rudy will be bad luck: His pedal-boat number is 13, and he plays with a black kitty at several points in the film.
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Writer Jim Thompson was originally hired to adapt his own novel for the movie. Thompson worked on the screenplay for four months and produced a prose treatment, a first draft, and alternate scenes and episodes. Thompson's script included the original borderline-surrealistic ending of the novel featuring the kingdom of El Rey. Steve McQueen objected to the depressing ending and had Thompson replaced with rising screenwriter Walter Hill. *
W. Dee Kutach, the Texas prison parole board chairman who denies Doc McCoy ( Steve McQueen) his parole in the opening minutes of the film, was actually a prison official at the time the movie was made - he was the Assistant Director for Treatment for the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, TX.
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Actual marked police cars were used for two of the towns used for shooting. You can see "San Marcos Police Department" on two cars in the chases and crashes after the bank job, and "Sierra Blanca Police" on a car chasing Doc and Carol from the drive-in restaurant near El Paso.
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Evocative harmonica solos courtesy of jazz great Toots Thielemans. The music played at the end titles quite obviously quotes Thielemans' best-known composition "Bluesette". *
The radio station playing at the drive-in restaurant is WHIL, an obvious reference to scriptwriter Walter Hill. *
When Carol McCoy lists the exits to the First Bank of Beacon City, "One on Hopkins, one at Guadalupe Street, and one is the alley," she is listing the real-life exits of the actual shooting location in San Marcos, Texas.
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Matthew King Kaufman, co-manager of the band, Earth Quake, won some compensation for the unauthorized use of Earth Quake's music in the movie The Getaway. This resulted in the set up Beserkley Records in 1973.
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Average Shot Length (ASL) = 3.5 seconds (1917 shots).
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Spoilers
The trivia item below may give away important plot points.
Despite being third-billed and having co-starring billing Ben Johnson only has a handful of scenes.
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