The Getaway (1994)

North Carolina Casinos

North Carolina is relatively new to gambling. The first North Carolina casino was introduced in 1994. North Carolina casinos are run by the Cherokee Indians. North Carolina has much to offer casino visitors with its Atlantic Ocean shoreline and beautiful beaches. North Carolina provides an ideal getaway for the gambler who doesn’t want to spend the whole time in the casino.


North Carolina became the 12th state on November 21, 1789. It covers 53821 square miles with 301 miles of coastline. Additionally, North Carolina has two nicknames: it is known as Old North State or the Tar Heel State. The population as of December 2000 is 8,049,313 people. Finally, North Carolina offers great weather and a climate that is family oriented to visitors.


The Cherokee Indians opened the first North Carolina casino in 1994. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino offers video gambling only, no table games. The video gambling options include poker, slots and blackjack, among others. The games offered are all skill based, even the slots. The slot games differ from non-skill based slots because there are two spins and the player chooses to keep or discard the results from the first spin. In the contract signed between the North Carolina state government and the Cherokee Indians that set up the casino it is guaranteed these video gambling machines have a minimum return of 83%.


Harrah’s Cherokee Casino is open to gamblers over 21 years of age. The casino operates 24 hours a day. It is located at 777 Casino Drive in Cherokee, just 55 miles southwest of Asheville. There is an attached hotel with 252 rooms available. There are also five on-site restaurants. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino is family oriented with a childcare center and 1,500-seat entertainment area. Parking is free for casino guests. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino offers a great vacation option for families or singles.


North Carolina casinos are very different from the glitzy casinos found elsewhere in the United States. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino provides comfort and entertainment under one roof for the convenience of guests. Visitors to North Carolina must stop in and enjoy the casino. When not in the casino guests can enjoy the entertainment or dining provided at the casino or they can venture out to enjoy the lengths of beaches that North Carolina has to offer. North Carolina provides casino fun and beach relaxation for the ultimate in vacation destinations.

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Trailer The Getaway 1994

New Dark Ages Artist: The Radiators Year: 2002 Length: 0:60:40 Genre: General Rock Label: Rattlesby Records Notes: Release date: 08/22/1995 Original release year: 1995 Label: What Are Records? Producer: The Radiators Catalog#: 60011 Tracks: 01 Umbilical [4:58] 02 The New Dark Ages [4:49] 03 Last Getaway [4:12] 04 Wait Till The Medicine Show [4:54] 05 Papaya [5:20] 06 Dream Woman [5:00] 07 If You Wanna Be Some...

The Getaway (Deluxe Edition) $4.49 Husband and wife bank robbers flee across Texas from corrupt politicians and the state police.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: PGRelease Date: 31-MAY-2005Media Type: DVD...

The Getaway $9.99 "This is going to be the last big score, I promise." Famous last words--uttered by crack thief Doc McCoy to his wife--that set forth a whirlpool of deception and violence in Roger Donaldson's 1994 remake of The Getaway. Bailed out of a Mexican jail by shady businessman Jack Benyon (James Woods) in order to hit an Arizona dog track for him, Doc (Alec Baldwin) and Carol (Kim Basinger) flee for south...

The Getaway (Uncut, Unrated Version) [VHS] $9.98 "This is going to be the last big score, I promise." Famous last words--uttered by crack thief Doc McCoy to his wife--that set forth a whirlpool of deception and violence in Roger Donaldson's 1994 remake of The Getaway. Bailed out of a Mexican jail by shady businessman Jack Benyon (James Woods) in order to hit an Arizona dog track for him, Doc (Alec Baldwin) and Carol (Kim Basinger) flee for south...

Getaway [VHS] $8.99 "This is going to be the last big score, I promise." Famous last words--uttered by crack thief Doc McCoy to his wife--that set forth a whirlpool of deception and violence in Roger Donaldson's 1994 remake of The Getaway. Bailed out of a Mexican jail by shady businessman Jack Benyon (James Woods) in order to hit an Arizona dog track for him, Doc (Alec Baldwin) and Carol (Kim Basinger) flee for south...

The Getaway [Blu-ray] $10.03 In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to get him out of prison. Carol secures Doc's freedom, on the condition that he does one more bank job for Benyon. Doc and his accomplices Rudy (Al Lettieri) and Jackson (Bo Hopkins) get the cash, but Doc soon discovers how Rudy intends to keep it all for himself and how Carol convinced Benyon to get him sprung. While Rudy hijacks a veterinarian and his wife (Sally Struthers) to take him to get Doc in El Paso, Doc and Carol make their own embattled way south with the money, threatening to desert each other before reaching a trash dump rapprochement after a harrowing garbage truck episode. All sides converge in El Paso for a shootout, but trust a happily married old-timer (Slim Pickens) to help Doc and Carol have a future. With violence shot in his trademark balletic style, Peckinpah does not hide the damage that Doc can do, whether to a cop car or an enemy. Still, as in such other morally relative outlaw movies as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Peckinpah's western The Wild Bunch (1969), Doc may be a criminal and killer when necessary, but his and Carol's loyalty to each other elevates them above their crooked milieu. With its non-traditional traditional couple played by the then hot (and notoriously adulterous) stars McQueen and MacGraw, The Getaway was a substantial hit. It was lackadaisically remade with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in 1994. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

The Getaway [Deluxe Edition] $5.97 In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to get him out of prison. Carol secures Doc's freedom, on the condition that he does one more bank job for Benyon. Doc and his accomplices Rudy (Al Lettieri) and Jackson (Bo Hopkins) get the cash, but Doc soon discovers how Rudy intends to keep it all for himself and how Carol convinced Benyon to get him sprung. While Rudy hijacks a veterinarian and his wife (Sally Struthers) to take him to get Doc in El Paso, Doc and Carol make their own embattled way south with the money, threatening to desert each other before reaching a trash dump rapprochement after a harrowing garbage truck episode. All sides converge in El Paso for a shootout, but trust a happily married old-timer (Slim Pickens) to help Doc and Carol have a future. With violence shot in his trademark balletic style, Peckinpah does not hide the damage that Doc can do, whether to a cop car or an enemy. Still, as in such other morally relative outlaw movies as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Peckinpah's western The Wild Bunch (1969), Doc may be a criminal and killer when necessary, but his and Carol's loyalty to each other elevates them above their crooked milieu. With its non-traditional traditional couple played by the then hot (and notoriously adulterous) stars McQueen and MacGraw, The Getaway was a substantial hit. It was lackadaisically remade with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in 1994. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Living Landscapes: Tropical Getaway [Blu-ray] $18.1 Living Landscapes: Tropical Getaway [Blu-ray]

A Perfect Getaway [Unrated/Rated Versions] $5.7 Honeymooning newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are hiking an 11-mile trail in Hawaii when they cross paths will ex-military man Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who earns their trust by helping them navigate a particularly treacherous mountain cliff. A few yards later, the trio runs into a group of girls whose parents are begging them to return home following reports that a honeymooning couple has been murdered on one of the other islands. The suspects in the killings are a young white couple, and when Cliff and Cydney meet Nick's frees-spirited girlfriend, Gina (Kiele Sanchez), tensions start to rise. The further the foursome walks together, the more delicate the balance of trust and suspicion becomes. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

1994 Arkansas/Duke $9.74 In 1994, the Arkansas Razorbacks, led by tournament MVP Corliss Williamson, faced off against the Mike Krzyzewski coached Duke Blue Devils in the final of the men's NCAA division I college basketball tournament. This release contains the entire television broadcast of that event, minus the commercials. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Specialist (1994) $10 Stallone, Stone. Two of Hollywood's biggest stars combine fiery action with steamy sensuality in The Specialist. Sharon Stone is May Munro, a drop-dead beauty with a fatal past. She's sworn death to the mobsters who murdered her parents and she's decided the method of their disposal: blast 'em-one by one-to kingdom come. She also knows the right man for the job: cool-fire ex-CIA explosives expert Ray Quick (Sylvester Stallone). Miami's playground of the super rich becomes an incendiary slayground as May lures the murderers and Ray ingeniously detonates them into ashes. But a vicious mob boss (Rod Steiger), his brash son (Eric Roberts) and a psychotic hired gun (James Woods) with a lethal grudge against Quick aren't the kind who go without a fight. And the feverish passions shared by the two avengers can't hide an ominous question from Ray. Is May failing for him...or is she setting him up, too?

The Jesus Lizard: Live 1994 $13.53 Captured live during the absolute peak of their power, this 1994 performance by The Jesus Lizard offers telling testament as to why the band is often referred to as one of the best live indie-rock acts of the 1990s. A punishing set staged at the Rat in Boston and showcasing front-man David Yow's impressive ability to whip fans into a room-shaking frenzy, the concert is captured in a two camera shoot that rolls fearlessly on as the sweat flies and the bodies flail. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Nik Turner: Space Ritual 1994 $22.52 Nik Turner: Space Ritual 1994 - Live captures the onetime leader of Hawkwind performing nearly a dozen numbers including "Master of the Universe," "Silver Machine," and "Nirbasion Annasion." ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

A Perfect Getaway [Unrated/Rated Versions] [Blu-ray] $8.07 Honeymooning newlyweds Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are hiking an 11-mile trail in Hawaii when they cross paths will ex-military man Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who earns their trust by helping them navigate a particularly treacherous mountain cliff. A few yards later, the trio runs into a group of girls whose parents are begging them to return home following reports that a honeymooning couple has been murdered on one of the other islands. The suspects in the killings are a young white couple, and when Cliff and Cydney meet Nick's frees-spirited girlfriend, Gina (Kiele Sanchez), tensions start to rise. The further the foursome walks together, the more delicate the balance of trust and suspicion becomes. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Live at Montreux 1994 $10.79 In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the acclaimed blues based album Muddy Water Blues with contributions from many special guest artists with a shared love for the Blues. In July 1994 the tour in support of this album rolled into Montreux. The regular tour band was joined through the evening by a number of special guests to create a typically unique Montreux festival performance including an amazing finale of 'Hoochie Coochie Man; where all the guests join in. As well as tracks from the Muddy Water Blues album there are all the classic tracks that you would expect from across Paul Rodgers' highly successful career.