ALI MACGRAW VS. STELLA STEVENS/THE GETAWAY

ALI MACGRAW never did it for me and her acting here seems so wooden I expect her gangster bank robbing convict or rather ex-convict husband Steve McQueen to get splinters when he plants a kiss on her, but it's a great movie that rocks and rolls and lots of guns and slow-motion deaths, always expected of Sam Peckinpah, bloody as he's called, nicknamed for letting the red stuff spill and Ali's moll was supposed to be played by STELLA STEVENS, who was the hooker in Peck's film THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE and she was all set for it, after all you need a toughie to stand up to McQueen who, as the character "Doc" gives his gal a lotta shit 'cause she has to sleep with a kingpin (Ben Johnson) in order to free him from an endless prison sentence - so I figure Stevens was probably in Peck's mind as the perfect counter but what happens is McQueen, according to Stevens, looked at her during the audition and said "You're competition", so what Steve wants goes, and producer Robert Evans (not a producer of this film but a producer) got his girlfriend Macgraw, who hadn't done nothing good since LOVE STORY (which frankly ain't even good), to co-star with McQueen and so eventually Stevens must've been laughing her ass off when Evan's lost MacGraw to McQueen as a real life romance blossomed on set and they were married and - I guess there was probably more love between the actors than the characters who in THE GETAWAY bicker on end and I can also mention Sally Struthers who's kinda a moll to Al Lettieri but let's hold that for anudder post...