The Getaway (novel) eternity" and suffer immensely all the while. The novel has been adapted into films twice. The 1972 film version of "The Getaway" starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. The 1994 film version of "The Getaway" starred Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. In both films the surreal ending In the hellish domain of El Rey is discarded for a happy ending in which Doc and his wife ultimately escape to freedom. The Getaway (novel) The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson. Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect a bank robbery, but there are things
The Getaway (1994 film) Southwest, I love the genre of the road movie, I love a thriller and I like the sort of underlying conflicts of the relationships in that movie." Baldwin said he "always wanted to do a movie that required what I consider to be movie acting, which is that it's not what you do, but what you don't do. It's all about small, and less and less. An action film is a perfect opportunity for that. There's always a steady flow of action films – it's the most mined material – but what distinguishes an action movie is the acting." Alec