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A German commander places a squad in extreme danger after its Sergeant refuses to lie for him. A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert. An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. Carter "Doc" McCoy is a career robber, currently in his fourth year of a ten year prison sentence at the Texas State Penitentiary.
After his request for parole is denied despite he being a model prisoner, Doc, unable emotionally to endure life inside, asks his loving wife Carol McCoy to contact crooked businessman Jack Beynon, a man with political connections, to secure his release in return for he being "for sale" to Beynon. Rather than Doc using his own men for the job, Beynon directs that the only other people involved will be the men of his own choosing, Rudy and Frank. There are to be no casualties, which is all right with Doc who is not a murderer.
After the robbery is completed and the monies divvied up accordingly, Doc and Carol will cross the border into If one is looking for a tough, gutsy, action oriented story about a professional criminal who takes on the law and gives it a run for its money, "The Get-Away" is for you. This film is one of the most stirring and awesome films created to-date. It begin within a maximum Texas prison where one, Carter 'Doc' McCoy, Steve McQueen is waiting out his sentence for bank robbery and expects to be released soon.
As with most prison systems, it's subject to manipulations from the rich and powerful.
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In this case we have Jack Beynon Ben Johnson, with superb acting who is both. It is he who uses his influence to "spring" our hero, with the caveat that he commit a personal bank robbery for him. Each man has much to gain and just as much to lose as there is obvious tension and distrust from the arrangement. What follows is one of the best double-crossing, shoot-'em ups, high speed chases ever created by director Sam Peckenpaw. Along the way, we have a notable college of film stars as could be gather to make a truly memorable saga.
Slim Pickens as a truck-driving Cowboy. If one is looking for a superior motion picture which sets the standard for Action-Drama, this is it. A Classic, if ever there was one.
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Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money.
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Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife Carol McCoy to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again.
Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison. Written by Lars J. The action scenes are top notch. Maybe I'm just a sucker for colorful characters and the bank heist angle is well done. Best of all is Alec Baldwin's character, Doc. Baldwin and the rest of the cast really deliver their lines with panache. Bank jobs, car chase, cat-and-mouse in a four story hotel, steamy sex, crazy characters Start your free trial.
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