I am 27 years old and just recently seen the Getaway. A lot of people, even my own father, claim that this movie originally had a full nude scene with Sally Struthers back in the seventies when they saw it on the big screen. This would be cool if it were since it would tarnish her now golden image. So if any one could enlighten me and put this mystery to rest I would appreciate it. Thanks.
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Ms Struthers tarnished her image appearing in tv ads begging for money for starving kids--and in another telling you how "you too can learn gun repair etc at home"...
And having seen The Getaway when it first debuted, no she was not nude but that top she wears would have gotten Archie apoplectic!
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Interesting. Everyone here says that the nude scene did not occur, and a Google search turns up nothing, but I saw this movie when it first came out and I distinctly remember Sally Struthers being topless in it. I was a teenager at the time so it's definitely something I would remember.
shareI was also a teenager when it was released, and I saw it in a theatre. There was no topless scene.
shareI saw it in CT when it came out and saw no nude scene.
Goddamit! Things ain't workin' out for me today!
Regarding nudity in mainstream films, the gorgeous Marianna Hill proudly showed off her tits, bush and ass in "El Condor" from 1970 and it wasn't rated X.
shareI saw The Getaway twice in the movie theater on it's first release when I was 10. Nope.....no such scene in the movie. The movie you see on DVD today is the original, uncut version of the film.
shareThe Last Picture Show came out a year before Getaway and it showed a topless Cybil Shepard. When it was shown in Alexandria, Louisiana, the District Attorney of Rapides Parish stood up and said, "That's enough! Turn off the projector!" He then made everyone go home.
shareThe film as it was released did not have a full nudity scene with Sally Struthers. However, the woman-hating director Sam Peckinpah probably shot such a scene for the gratification of himself and his equally misogynistic crew.
He could get away with a sleazy stunt like that with Ms Struthers since she was a very minor actress, despite some notoriety from All in the Family. Whereas he could not have pulled it with Ali McGraw because she was a much bigger star.
A few year earlier, Peckinpah had the original assignment to direct the movie Cincinnati Kid, also with Steve McQueen. Peckinpah insisted on filming scenes with naked women, which was not in the script, and had nothing to do with the story. The studio promptly fired him and replaced him with director Norman Jewison, who would also later go on to direct McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair.
All in Peckinpah is a much overrated director, a poor story teller, very lazy and repetitive. He ended up pretty much as he was: a burned out coke head, arrogant and full of sheet.