The Getaway 1972 is a lean, hard-edged Texas crime thriller with Steve McQueen running hot, breaking out of prison and tearing across the state with Ali MacGraw. Directed by Sam Peckinpah, it delivers tense shootouts, dusty backroad escapes, and the famous train-yard showdown. Shot around San Marcos, Huntsville, and El Paso, the film mixes heat, danger, and wide-open Texas landscapes. McQueen’s cool carries the whole ride, a pure early seventies outlaw burst of style and speed. Follow @lonestarb

When Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen’s affair while filming THE GETAWAY (’72) became public knowledge, MacGraw and then-husband Robert Evans divorced. MacGraw and McQueen were married from 1973 to 1978. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Tyrone: The Getaway (Not) Driver! 🚙🇬🇧🔥😂 One of the funniest scenes in Snatch (2000)! Tyrone — the big, slow-moving “getaway driver” — is absolutely hilarious. He’s supposed to be their wheelman, but he can barely fit behind the wheel, and he’s terrible at driving. Sol and Vincent (the two small-time criminals) are just losing their minds because he can’t do basic things a getaway driver should do. That bit where: • Tyrone crashes into the back of the white van, • They’re stuck, • The whole