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Le Mans( 1971)

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Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH!

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Steve McQueen

      Michael Delaney

    2. cast image

      Siegfried Rauch

      Erich Stahler

    3. cast image

      Elga Andersen

      Lisa Belgetti

    4. cast image

      Ronald Leigh-Hunt

      David Townsend

    5. cast image

      Fred Haltiner

      Johann Ritter

    6. cast image

      Luc Merenda

      Claude Aurac

    7. cast image

      Christopher Waite

      Larry Wilson

    8. cast image

      Louise Edlind

      Anna Ritter

    9. cast image

      Angelo Infanti

      Lugo Abratte

    10. cast image

      Jean-Claude Bercq

      Paul-Jacques Dion

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      Michele Scalera

      Vito Scaliso

    12. cast image

      Gino Cassani

      Loretto Fuselli

    13. cast image

      Alfred Bell

      Tommy Hopkins

    14. cast image

      Carlo Cecchi

      Paolo Scadenza

    15. cast image

      Richard Rüdiger

      Bruno Frohm

    16. cast image

      Anne Libert

      Woman in Red (uncredited)

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      Hal Hamilton

      Chris Barnett

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      Jonathan Williams

      Jonathan Burton

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      Peter Parten

      Peter Wiese

    20. cast image

      Conrad Pringle

      Tony Elkins

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      Erich Glavitza

      Josef Hauser

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      Peter Huber

      Max Kummel

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Apr 13 2023
    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. T...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    7500000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • sense of guilt
    • road trip
    • le mans
    • race car driver
    • race car crash
    • motorsport