McQueen looked soooo good!!!!!!!!!

McQueen was about 41, 42 when he made "The Getaway" and aging into his rugged good looks to the point where he looked better even than how great he looked in his "kid" sixties heyday(The Great Escape, The Cincinnati Kid). Its the old story: men get more distinguished looking as they age. Paul Newman improved, too. (Not that either man was chopped liver, young.)

Funny: McQueen had a "Christmas movie" each year for 1972(The Getaway), 1973(Papillon), and 1974 (The Towering Inferno.) He looked great in each one -- though in "Papillion" he had to do some Oscar-begging aging and "toothless uglifying."(No Oscar nom came.) Then McQueen up and retired for most of the seventies, did one unseen movie with long hair and a beard(Enemy of the People) in 1977, did two smallish "comeback" movies in 1980(Tom Horn and The Hunter)...and shockingly died at 50 of cancer in 1980. (Ironically, the cancer that got him may well have helped him look so "rugged" in his later movies like "The Getaway.")

He probably looked best in "The Getaway." I like how he wears that black business suit and white shirt all through the movie; its a surpisingly good look on him -- you might call him "The Original Blues Brother." But it is his face that looks great and macho and rugged in that movie...straight males know handsome when we see it, too, you know.

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One thing I remember about seeing McQueen in "The Getaway" IN 1972. Long hair was in back then. I wore my hair long, my male friends did and McQueen had worn it very long in "The Reivers" and "LeMans."

And here he was in this chopped-off prison haircut for "The Getaway." I remember being shocked at the time -- it was as if McQueen's head was shaved.

All these years later, with long hair gone as the hair length of male choice(in most cases)...McQueen's hairstyle in The Getaway looks fine to me now.

But back then...it was a shocker.