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...Getaway is basically a streamlined heist-and-chase movie, but Peckinpah keeps stumbling over his subplots. Moreover, his two stars, Steve McQueen and All MacGraw, are unregenerately narcissistic. They appear as a husband and wife, professional thieves, who knock over a small-town Texas bank and spend the rest of the time speeding across the state to Mexico, pursued by the cops and crews of greedy confederates...
Stolen Goods, Gems Lifted from the Masters; The Outrageous Dr. Teleny's Incredible Plugged-in Orchestra (Zack Laurence conducting; RCA quadradisc, $5.98). The cover of this album shows a James Bond type suspended by rope above an alarm-rigged floor making a heist of some bejeweled busts of the great composers. The first track is called The People, Yes, and turns out to be Chopin's Revolutionary Etude done up in the sex and violence of an 007 film's sound track. Ludwig's Gig is a lush snippet from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; Superjoy...
...fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...
...pile of clothes, tries to make a run for it. In a sleeping bag is a naked 21-year-old girl, who refuses to give her name. Also present are six hippiesque men and a woman, who say that Christian's mother offered them each $10,000 "to heist the boy" for a while (there are enough provisions in camp for several months). After a courtroom scene, in which the father appeals to have Christian put in his custody (he has been sharing the boy with the mother), the judge postpones the hearing for a month and for that...
...Rock apparently aimed to be the caper movie to end them all. Unfortunately, it probably won't. William Goldman has transferred the patty-cake banter of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to contemporary New York City, where he unleashes a quartet of schlemiel heist men (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand). Their task is to lift a gem called the Sahara stone and turn it over to the pompous African diplomat (Moses Gunn) who contracted for the job. They go to a lot of elaborate trouble to break into places. The gimmick is that...