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ActionDrama

Le Mans

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

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.

Release Date : 1971-06-23

Language :EnglishFrenchGermanItalian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Cinema Center FilmsSolar Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Steve McQueen

Character Name : Michael Delaney

Original Name : Steve McQueen

Gender : Male

Siegfried Rauch

Character Name : Erich Stahler

Original Name : Siegfried Rauch

Gender : Male

Elga Andersen

Character Name : Lisa Belgetti

Original Name : Elga Andersen

Gender : Female

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Character Name : David Townsend

Original Name : Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Gender : Male

Fred Haltiner

Character Name : Johann Ritter

Original Name : Fred Haltiner

Gender : Male

Luc Merenda

Character Name : Claude Aurac

Original Name : Luc Merenda

Gender : Male

Christopher Waite

Character Name : Larry Wilson

Original Name : Christopher Waite

Gender : Male

Louise Edlind

Character Name : Anna Ritter

Original Name : Louise Edlind

Gender : Female

Angelo Infanti

Character Name : Lugo Abratte

Original Name : Angelo Infanti

Gender : Male

Jean-Claude Bercq

Character Name : Paul-Jacques Dion

Original Name : Jean-Claude Bercq

Gender : Male

Michele Scalera

Character Name : Vito Scaliso

Original Name : Michele Scalera

Gender : Male

Gino Cassani

Character Name : Loretto Fuselli

Original Name : Gino Cassani

Gender : Male

Alfred Bell

Character Name : Tommy Hopkins

Original Name : Alfred Bell

Gender : Male

Carlo Cecchi

Character Name : Paolo Scadenza

Original Name : Carlo Cecchi

Gender : Male

Richard Rüdiger

Character Name : Bruno Frohm

Original Name : Richard Rüdiger

Gender : Male

Anne Libert

Character Name : Woman in Red (uncredited)

Original Name : Anne Libert

Gender : Female

Hal Hamilton

Character Name : Chris Barnett

Original Name : Hal Hamilton

Gender : Male

Jonathan Williams

Character Name : Jonathan Burton

Original Name : Jonathan Williams

Gender : Male

Peter Parten

Character Name : Peter Wiese

Original Name : Peter Parten

Gender : Male

Conrad Pringle

Character Name : Tony Elkins

Original Name : Conrad Pringle

Gender : Male

Erich Glavitza

Character Name : Josef Hauser

Original Name : Erich Glavitza

Gender : Male

Peter Huber

Character Name : Max Kummel

Original Name : Peter Huber

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-04-13

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!