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Rating: 6.7/10 by 239 users

Le Mans (1971)

Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.

Directing:
  • Lee H. Katzin
  • Jack N. Reddish
  • Gus Agosti
  • Louis Pitzele
  • Les Sheldon
  • John Franco
Writing:
  • Harry Kleiner
Stars:
Release Date: Wed, Jun 23, 1971

Rating: 6.7/10 by 239 users

Alternative Title:
Las 24 horas de Le Mans - ES
Las veinticuatro horas de Le Mans - ES
Ле-Ман - UA

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Runtime: 01 hour 44 minutes
Budget: $7,500,000
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: sense of guilt, road trip, le mans, race car driver, race car crash, motorsport
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Steve McQueen
Michael Delaney
Siegfried Rauch
Erich Stahler
Elga Andersen
Lisa Belgetti
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
David Townsend
Fred Haltiner
Johann Ritter
Luc Merenda
Claude Aurac
Louise Edlind
Anna Ritter
Angelo Infanti
Lugo Abratte
Jean-Claude Bercq
Paul-Jacques Dion
Michele Scalera
Vito Scaliso
Gino Cassani
Loretto Fuselli
Alfred Bell
Tommy Hopkins
Carlo Cecchi
Paolo Scadenza
Anne Libert
Woman in Red (uncredited)
Hal Hamilton
Chris Barnett
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Burton
Peter Parten
Peter Wiese
Erich Glavitza
Josef Hauser
Peter Huber
Max Kummel

CinemaSerf

By all accounts, Steve McQueen was an ardent motor sport enthusiast - and that certainly comes across in this almost documentary style depiction of the legendary Le Mans race. There is a story, well more of a theme, but it's so peripheral as to be tangential to the real purpose of the film - a showcase of the fast and furious race, complete with some spectacular (even now) in-car coverage of the races, plenty of crashes, near misses and you can almost smell the fumes of the cars as they race past. There's no doubt the photography is superb, and the Michel Legrand score instantly recognisable. The rest of it, though, is pretty unremarkable. There is a paucity of dialogue that makes any investment by us in the characters pretty difficult, but I'm not sure Lee Katzin (or McQueen) really had characterisations in mind when they devised this adrenalin rush of a feature. It's an authentic looking and sounding delight for petrol-heads all over, but as a piece of drama it falls well short. A cynical person might call it a vanity project!


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