The Getaway (Peckinpah, 1972): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This great heist movie is part of the Sam Peckinpah season at the Prince Charles. Details here.
Time Out review:
An evident precursor to The Driver (Walter Hill scripted both, this one from Jim Thompson's novel). The major strength of The Getaway rests
solidly on Steve McQueen's central role, a cold tense core of pragmatic
violence. Hounded by furies (two mobs, police, a hostile landscape), he
responds with a lethal control, blasting his way through shootouts that
teeter on madness to the loot, the girl, and Sam Peckinpah's mythic land of
Mexico. Survival, purification, and the attainment of grace are achieved
only by an extreme commitment to the Peckinpah existential ideal of
action - a man is what he does. Peckinpah's own control of the
escalating frenzy is masterly; this is one of his coldest films, but a
great thriller.
Chris Peachment
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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