The Getaway (1972 film) the film good reviews. A box office hit earning over $36 million, it was the second highest-grossing film of the year, and was one of the most financially successful productions of Peckinpah's and McQueen's careers. In 1994, a remake was released to generally negative reviews, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. Serving four years of his ten-year sentence for armed robbery, Carter "Doc" McCoy is denied parole in a Texas prison. When his wife Carol visits him, he tells her to do whatever is necessary to make a deal with Jack Beynon, a corrupt businessman
Getaway (The Saint) of this novel, during which time he had amassed a personal fortune of approximately 100,000 pounds, which was finally topped up by his absconding with a villain's diamonds at the end of "Melancholy Journey". Much of the book is told from Monty Hayward's point of view. According to "The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992" by Burl Barer, the character was based upon Charteris' real-life editor, Monty Haydon. In 1941, "Getaway" was adapted as a motion picture by RKO as part of its ongoing Saint series. Retitled "The Saint's Vacation", the film was the first