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The guy in the sporting goods store


The actor who "sells" McQueen his shotgun with double-ought buck is Bruce Bissonette. THE GETAWAY was filmed primarily in El Paso, and Bissonette was a popular radio and TV personality there. Interesting follow up to the movie: McQueen returned to El Paso in 1980 to receive a "last ditch" treatment for his advanced cancer in Juarez, Mexico -- just across the border. McQueen died during surgery at the University of Juarez Medical School. Bissonette, being a newsman, was given access into the school's morgue and shot video of his famous former co-star laying dead on a table. The footage was never broadcast on American television, but I have seen it, along with others who worked with Bissonette over the years in the media.

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Sounds like he is/was a no good piece of trash.

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I'll second that. What a slimeball

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I don't believe that

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