The Getaway

In the third and fourth shots, the orange VW was driven by James Garner, who was visiting a friend on the shooting location in San Marcos, Texas, a stunt for which director Sam Peckinpah paid Garner $1, as Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw flee the bank heist, dodging their own diversionary explosions, Al Lettieri their fickle partner, in The Getaway, 1972.

SPOILER because this comes after the big shootout near the end, but Slim Pickens appears as a bystander, with a truck, as Doc and Carol (Steve McQueen, Alil MacGraw) are headed for sure now to Mexico, in Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 hit The Getaway.

After their violent Texas bank job, McCoy (Steve McQueen) and wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) visit prison official Benyon (Ben Johnson), who got him released after she agreed to have sex with him, to split the loot, Sam Peckinpah directing, with surprises from the original Jim Thompson novel, in The Getaway, 1972.

Not nearly so built-up as it is now, at the River Walk in San Antonio, Steve McQueen as McCoy, visits crooked parole official Benyon (Ben Johnson), who just got him sprung and, we learn, was planning a job all along, Al Lettieri and Bo Hopkins on the crew, in Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway, 1972.

Director Sam Peckinpah shooting at the Huntsville State Prison in Texas, his star Steve McQueen as McCoy, who’s just been denied parole, at work with real inmates, visited by his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw), whom he sends to see parole board member Benyon (Ben Johnson), early in The Getaway, 1972.