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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...
KAREN BLACK in an obscure seventies gangster film THE OUTFIT isn't quite a gangster film but involves bank robbers Robert Duvall who's just outta prison and partner Joe Don Baker and Karen Black, the dizzy gal from FIVE EASY PIECES and star of so many other great films, some bad, is the MOLL and not so tough as she is determined, and won't let her man get the best of her - sure he loves her but wants to stuff her in the backseat (as he does) and all three go from thug to thug stealing money as revenge for being ripped off and anyhow she's a good moll in it - nice to see her with a gun and sexy and tough and gritty and sensitive too but mostly makes her dude feel guilty that he's pleased with stealin' so as much as I love Black she kinda gits inna way here but it's Karen Black so who'm I to complain?
THE WORLD'S MOST USELESS BLOG THAT FOLLOWS THE EXPLOITS OF THOSE TOUGH GUN-TOTTIN BROADS CALLED MOLLS WHO ARE GIRLFRIENDS OF GANGSTERS AND EVEN GANGTERS DEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN WAY WHEN THEIR MEN ARE LOCKED UP OR YOU CAN EVEN CALL EM PARDNERS IN CRIME AND THESE BITCHES KICK A LOTTA ASS AND TAKE NO PRISONERS AND IF THEY DO THEY SHORE HAVE FUN WIT EM AND WE'LL HAVE VARIOUS MOLLS THAT'RE IN FILMS RANGING FROM THE THIRTIES UP TO THE SEVENTIES AND A LITTLE BEFORE AND A LIL BEYOND SO KEEP COMIN' BACK AND READING THIS HERE BLOG THAT'S JUST SO STOOPID YA GOTTA SEE WHO WE WRITE ABOUT 'CAUSE MOLLS R LEAN AND MEAN AND SEXY AND DIRTY AND FLIRTY AND A TRICKY AND MEN SOMETIMES MISTAKE THEM FOR DUMB BUT THEY GOTZ MORE GOING ON THAN THAT SO RAT-A-TAT-TAT BABY DOLL HERE BE THE PLACE FOR DA MOLL!!!!!!
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...
