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Release Date:
13 joulukuu 1972 (USA)
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They're Hot - McQueen/MacGraw more
Plot:
A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry. full summary | add synopsis
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Heist
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On The Run
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Cuckold
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Mask
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Veterinarian
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 1 win
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Tough, Solid Crime Story
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Steve McQueen | ... | Doc McCoy |
 | Ali MacGraw | ... | Carol McCoy |
 | Ben Johnson | ... | Jack Beynon |
| Sally Struthers | ... | Fran Clinton |
| Al Lettieri | ... | Rudy Butler |
| Slim Pickens | ... | Cowboy |
 | Richard Bright | ... | The Thief |
| Jack Dodson | ... | Harold Clinton |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Laughlin |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Frank Jackson |
| Roy Jenson | ... | Cully |
 | John Bryson | ... | The Accountant |
 | Bill Hart | ... | Swain |
| Tom Runyon | ... | Hayhoe |
| Whitney Jones | ... | The Soldier |
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122 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:18 (re-rating, uncut) |
USA:PG (cut) |
UK:X (original rating) |
Iceland:16 |
France:-12 |
Norway:16 (cut) (1973) |
Norway:18 (uncut) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-18 |
Germany:16 (re-rating) |
Italy:VM14 |
Sweden:15 |
West Germany:18 (nf) |
Canada:13+ (Québec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Singapore:PG
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The film's original score was composed by frequent Sam Peckinpah collaborator Jerry Fielding, but was replaced, at Steve McQueen's insistence, with the lighter, jazzier film score by Quincy Jones, shortly before the film's release.
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Continuity: The grey mercury driven by carol at the drive-in hits at least one other car head on, yet in later scenes the nose is intact.
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Jack Beynon:
You run the job, but I run the show.
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Featured in Steve McQueen: The King of Cool (1998) (TV)
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I think I saw the 1994 re-make before I ever checked this movie out. The re- make being so sexual and violent I expected less of that stuff in here because it was made 20-some years earlier. Well, there was less sex but I think the violence might even have been heavier in this movie. This was a pretty rough film and it's interesting to note the "PG." Today, this would be rated at minimum PG-13.
Also, a contrast between the two films, language-wise: back then you'd hear a lot more usage of the Lord's name in vain; nowadays, the f-word is more popular. Good guy Steve McQueen in here never utters a bad word and is still a tough, no- nonsense kind of guy. The rest of the characters are the same. There are no "talk before I shoot" hokey scenes or people missing from point-blank range.
McQueen is great, as he usually was, and the rest of the cast is pretty interesting, too, from sleazy Sally Struthers (pre-"All In The Family") to Love Story's Ali McGraw to old-timers Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens. Al Letterei was also good in here. His name isn't familiar to me, but his face was.
With either this or the re-make, you get a solid crime-action story with "The Getaway."