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The Getaway

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Directed by Roger Donaldson

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned. From TMDB

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The Getaway is a 1994 action adventure crime film, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and Michael Madsen.

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  • cuerdo @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 29, 2026

    TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted.

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    If you post about any movie on here, like say the 1994 Alec Baldwin-Kim Bassinger-Michael Madsen thriller “The Getaway,” no matter how forgettable or bad the film might have been, some person will respond by telling you how wonderful or formative it was for them.

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2025

    RIP Michael Madsen, 67. Credits include Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, Thelma and Louise, The Hateful Eight, Species, The Getaway (1994), Bloodrayne, WarGames, The Outlaw Johnny Black, Sin City, Scary Movie 4, Die Another Day, Wyatt Earp, The Doors, and 300+ more.

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  • The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    9 March 1973, the crime thriller "The Getaway", starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, was the No.1 film at the US box office. The film, directed by Sam Peckinpah, is widely considered a classic of 1970s neo-noir cinema for its gritty action & the intense off-screen romance between its two stars.

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  • Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Happy birthday to Jim Thompson, one of the best and most uncompromising American noir writers. If you only know The Getaway from the film versions, you're missing a lot. Neither had the guts to go all the way to the real ending of the story.

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  • Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    What's in my boxes today on #RandomGameSaturday? It's Gangs of London on PSP. Never played it, because I realized too late that it's not a spinoff of the Daniel Day-Lewis New York movie. It's some GTA thing taken from The Getaway on PS2. I don't need that, I already own GTA on PSP

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    On this night (13th December) in 1980, the Scala Cinema was showing The Getaway, The Wild Bunch, Convoy and The Ballad Of Cable Hogue as a Sam Peckinpah all-nighter.

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  • Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phdBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    saw 'The Getaway' (1972) tonight for probably the 5th time this year (my friend gets drunk and puts on the same movies all the time) and I gotta say, highly, highly rewatchable film 📽️

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  • Film Noir @filmnoir.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    BOTD Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy in the nearly noir The Getaway. #Film #Cinema

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    Last 4 Watched: The Getaway (1972) Bullitt (1968) Alien Romulus (2024) A Real Pain (2024) 🎬🍿📽️ #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

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  • 💀minous Cinema ® 🕷️ @furiouscinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    Released #OTD in 1987 #filmsky Nick Nolte modelled his character on Joaquin Jackson, a real Texas Ranger. Nolte spent three weeks in Texas with Jackson. Walter Hill wrote the screenplay for Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway and said he "tipped my hat to Sam a couple of times" in the movie

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  • DagwoodIII @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 24, 2026

    So, I was watching 'The Getaway' with Steve McQueen. That movie was made when McQueen was one of the top box office draws in the world. He takes off his shirt and, to me, he looks a little scrawny. A while later, I'm watching a movie where the shirtless guy is supposed to be a middle-aged lawyer with a minor drug problem. Looks like he could throw McQueen through the wall.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    Sam Peckinpah (with scenes from his film "The Getaway") - BOTD

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  • Valentina Vee @valentinavee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    A few of my favorite projects I shot last year! "Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend" short film Liquid Death commercial TJ Maxx Commercial "The Getaway" competition show

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  • Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2024

    My #Noirvember film #3, Roger Donaldson’s 1994 remake of Jim Thompson’s THE GETAWAY. Have not seen it since its release. Pretty damn good, with a great cast & an underlying nastiness that somehow feels both extremely 1990s & very true to the themes in Thompson’s body of work

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Jim Thompson (with scenes from the Sam Peckinpah film adaptation of the Thompson novel "The Getaway") - BOTD

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  • ToughPigs @toughpigs.comBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    New Muppets From Space podcast! We’re talking Minutes 61-62: The Muppets head to Cape Doom and the bad guys prep weapons. PLUS: Did the movie run out of plot? Would Bobo enjoy being in a petting zoo? Why aren’t we watching the Three Stooges? And the SOLUTION to the mystery of the Getaway People!

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  • mikefgiammarino.bsky.social @mikefgiammarino.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    #Junesploitation Day 8: Heists! Film #3: The Getaway (1994) @fthismovie.bsky.social Trailer: youtu.be/8JjNY86cmko?...

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  • Peter Albrechtsen @lydrummet.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    Happy 100th birthday to director Sam Peckinpah. His bold use of sound has been very inspiring to me. Straw Dogs made brilliant use of sonic abstractions. The Wild Bunch changed the way gunshots sounded in movies. And The Getaway has one of the best audio intros of any movie ever. A sonic powerhouse.

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  • farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    Last night's viewing - a change of pace - Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway based on a Jim Thompson novel. Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw on the run and one of my favourite actors Slim Pickens in a small but key role. Quite a contrast to Buñuel and Cocteau of the last few weeks. Another from @kanopy.com

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  • Intergalactic Ape-Man @interfilmreisen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    Looks like I'm in a groove for quickly fixing something and then treating me with a rewatch of movies that I really need to see again. The Getaway is next on that list. #NowWatching #FilmSky

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  • Kathy Valentine @kathyvalentine.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2024

    and married to Steve McQueen!! omg. I also loved The Getaway, great film

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2024

    Sam Peckinpah (with scenes from his film "The Getaway") - BOTD

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  • Dean Frey @dean.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2025

    Slim Pickens almost always seems to have more fun than anyone else in the movie. With Steve McQueen & Ali MacGraw in Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway, 1972. The still photographer on the set was Mel Traxel #stillonset

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    …a good example of the predicament story, thrillers that involves a single hard-drivin’ situation...Kidnap is a neat little B movie from @signatureuk.bsky.social that fits into that highway pursuit genre with Duel, Breakdown, Speed, The Getaway and Unhinged... film-authority.com/2025/02/14/k...

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  • 'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better @fairestcat.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    Maps for the Getaway - Holiday (1938) The last vid I made, and a great joy. The second Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant movie I've vidded. Maybe I'll have to do the other two just to complete the set!

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  • boryskit.bsky.social @boryskit.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Excl: Netflix teams with the director of its acclaimed ADOLESCENCE mini-series, Philip Barantini, for a remake of Steve McQueen classic THE GETAWAY. Sam Peckinpah directed the original. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Rocky N. Bullwinkle @lproulx.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    I remembered the movie THE GETAWAY as a nasty and mean piece of work. And it is. Nobody is likeable, not even our 'heroes'. I now recognize that as a great depiction of Jim Thompson's very noir world. (The end of the book is waaay darker, btw.) Discovered that McQueen drives the car on this cover.

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  • Xalbcar @xalbcar.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    Watching The Getaway, such a classic, Sam Peckinpah and Walter Hill worked on the movie

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  • MarcGriffiths @therpgenius.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    G - The Getaway Absolutely loved these games, like playing through a Guy Ritchie film in a surprisingly realistic recreation of London Me and my dad used to try and drive around using a real life A-Z map of London to navigate

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    1 April 1939 – Alice 'Ali' MacGraw, 87, US model, actress. Goodbye, Columbus (1969) * Love Story (top grossing US film of 1970, OscarNom) * The Getaway (1972, with future husband Steve McQueen, m. 1973-78) * Convoy * Players * Just Tell Me What You Want * The Winds of War * Dynasty (1985)

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  • Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    Tonight’s film: The Getaway. This is the good stuff.

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  • Luis Levy @[email protected]Mastodon · Jun 29, 2024

    If you ever want to see what the PlayStation 2 was *truly* capable of, check out Team Soho's The Getaway. This British crime drama, almost an interactive movie, uses photo-realistic assets and a seemingly 1-to-1 recreation of London to tell a gritty revenge tale. Keep in mind that the PS2 has no hard drive. All the data is being streamed IN REAL TIME from the (slow) DVD drive. #retrogaming #PS2 #TheGetaway #Sony #TeamSoho

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  • Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Rewatching a cutscene movie of classic 2002 GTA-like "The Getaway" and I hope I don't adopt any of the accents on accident

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2026

    No Country for Rod Steiger! Across the Bridge is a sweaty, mean-spirited crime film, that takes a Twilight Zone premise to a setting rather like El Rey at the end of The Getaway (novel). It is fatalistic, and every decision begets a worse outcome.

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  • 🍫🎃👻 Sronmar 🦇🎃🐈‍⬛ @sronmar.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    I had forgotten I owned these two games until I went through my two boxes of old physical copies and saw these. The Getaway is an amazing game. When it came out over twenty years ago for the PS2, it was like you were playing a hell of a movie. Even people who didn't game would just watch it. 🕹 #art

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  • Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Many of Quincy Jones' film/TV compositions (Sanford & Son, Ironside, Anderson Tapes, The Getaway, etc) were included on his stellar jazz & jazz/funk/soul Lps from the late '60s - mid-'70s --albums also overlooked or glossed over in the many obits/tributes to Q over past couple weeks #ripQuincyJones

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    First poster for ‘DIARY OF A WIMPY KID CHRISTMAS: THE GETAWAY’. A new animated film coming to Disney+ on December 4. #DiaryOfAWimpyKid #DisneyPlus

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    First poster for ‘DIARY OF A WIMPY CHRISTMAS: THE GETAWAY’. The film premieres on Disney+ December 4. #DiaryOfAWimpyKid #DisneyPlus

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  • collier74.bsky.social @collier74.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2026

    The hottest ticket in town. Two successive weekends was unable to get in to see this film with my date. The second weekend we saw The Getaway (1972) instead. Tried standing room (only) the first weekend but that was terrible and we split, got a refund after five minutes.

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  • klu9 @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 29, 2026

    [Video] TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted.

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  • Old Movies for Young Stoners @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    If you ever wanted to see lots of Sally Strutters side boob, The Getaway (1972) is the movie for you.

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  • JT Lindroos @oivas.comBluesky · Mar 8, 2025

    My recollection is the film was fairly true to it. The real revelation of Thompson's novels is The Getaway, which has an astounding coda both the films completely ignored....

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  • pud333.bsky.social @pud333.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    Rewatching another Sam Peckinpah film: The Getaway. When this came out it wasn't really received very well. Is it on the same level as some of Peckinpah's other films? No. Definitely not. But I enjoy it a great deal. #filmsky

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  • Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    On this day in movie history: The Getaway directed by Roger Donaldson released February 11, 1994. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly, James Stephens, Richard Farnsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Burton Gilliam, Royce D. Applegate.

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  • Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Best break-for-the-border ending IMO is Jim Thompson's THE GETAWAY, considerably lightened up and made more conventional in both film versions. Amazing stuff.

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  • Media-ReM (COMMS OPEN) @mediahead.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    Tag 4 friends, post 4 favs! TV series: Star Trek: Lower Decks Movie : Mad Max: Fury Road Video game/other media: Starman By James Robinson Album: Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway I tag @annecomics.bsky.social @emma-art.bsky.social @mossanimation.bsky.social @vodkaslyme.bsky.social

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  • Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    Leaving Durango was a divisive move for James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson and writer Rudy Wurlitzer. Sam Peckinpah was hosting a screening party for his hit movie, The Getaway, that weekend and the director was livid when his stars followed Dylan out of town.

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  • Dean Frey @dean.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2024

    Slim Pickens almost always seems to have more fun than anyone else in the movie. With Steve McQueen & Ali MacGraw in Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway, 1972. The still photographer on the set was Mel Traxel #stillonset

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  • Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2024

    So many shots from this film just *feel* like a Jim Thompson paperback cover. I love it. True pulp-trash luridity on a scale we just don’t do anymore. Preorder THE GETAWAY ‘94 (with a new commentary track by me) via Shout: shoutfactory.com/products/the...

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  • Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    New animated feature, DIARY OF A WIMPY KID CHRISTMAS: THE GETAWAY coming to Disney+ on December 4 The fifth installment in the animated movie series, and third specifically Christmas-set, is based on twelfth book in Jeff Kinney's middle grade series, with family taking tropical vacation at holidays

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  • aaroncanton.bsky.social @aaroncanton.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    That's right, it does. I enjoyed The Getaway too, and I wish they'd make a movie adaptation which actually included the last chapter, since both the Peckinpah and Donaldson adaptations stop before that part.

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  • Andy Gaudion @andygaudion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    Listen to me ramble all about Sam Peckinpah's fascinating heist movie THE GETAWAY with Scott on @bloodysam.bsky.social - available now wherever you get your pods!

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    29 June 1919 – 1983 Slim Pickens (b. Louis Lindley) 64, US rodeo performer, actor. Film debut 1943. One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Dr Strangelove * Major Dundee * Will Penny * The Cowboys * The Getaway * Pat Garrett and Billy Kid * Blazing Saddles * Apple Dumpling Gang * Tom Horn * B.J. and Bear (1979–81)

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  • mbrossetti.bsky.social @mbrossetti.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Great film. Found that in college and was definitely in a Steve McQueen phase. Would repeatedly watch this, The Getaway, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magnificent Seven.

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  • Kenny @Disney+ @ikenny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2025

    IN THE WORKS | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway. Will be the 4th Wimpy Kid Animation Film coming exclusively to #DisneyPlus — Release expected 2026. Based on book 12 in the Series from author Jeff Kinney.

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  • one Wolf @grovertmuldoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    Interpol was a copaganda I watched based on Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, and Trevor Howard being in the cast. Loved The Getaway even with all its 1970s flaws. Rewatched Casablanca on Bastille Day and was reminded why it's a favorite. Rewatched another favorite, The Maltese Falcon for more Bogie.

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  • Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    Fave films starring Steve McQueen (#BOTD): Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972), w/ Ali Macgraw; Bullitt (1968); On Any Sunday (his 1971 documentary film about motocross & racing, directed by Bruce Brown); Nevada Smith (1966), Henry Hathaway's sprawling revenge western, w/ an amazing supporting cast.

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  • Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    My ranking differs from the Guardian’s! 1. The Wild Bunch 2. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 3. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 4. Major Dundee 5. Ride the High Country 6. Cross of Iron 7. The Getaway 8. Straw Dogs 9. The Ballad of Cable Hogue 10. Convoy www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

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  • Charles 'Charlie' Harris @cmdharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2025

    Movie a Day Project 2025: Day 49 The Getaway (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1972) Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, and Sally Struthers #filmsky

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