Le Mans
Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga Andersen. The dramatic angle to this plot wrinkle is that McQueen may well have been responsible for the death of Andersen’s husband during a previous car pile-up. Director John Sturges, who’d previously helmed Steve McQueen’s legendary motorcycle chase scenes in The Great Escape, was originally slated to direct Le Mans, but withdrew from the project; it was then taken over by Lee H. Katzin.
Views: 732
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Racing
Director: John Sturges, Lee H. Katzin
Actors: Allison Tolman, Angelo Infanti, Anne Libert, Christopher Waite, Elga Andersen, Fred Haltiner, Jean-Claude Bercq, Louise Edlind, Luc Merenda, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Siegfried Rauch, Steve McQueen
Country: United States of America
Company: Cinema Center Films, Solar Productions
Awards: 1 nomination
Budget: $7,500,000
Duration:
1h 44minRelease: 1971
Release Date: 1971-06-23
IMDb: 6.7
TMDB: 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
Metacritic: 52
FilmAffinity: 6.0