Le Mans
Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH!
1971 | 104m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Lee H. Katzin |
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| Writer: | Harry Kleiner |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Jun 23, 1971 |
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| Director: | Lee H. Katzin |
| Writer: | Harry Kleiner |
| Genres: | Action, Drama |
| Keywords | sense of guilt, road trip, le mans, race car driver, race car crash, motorsport |
| Production Companies | Solar Productions, Cinema Center Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $7,500,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Christopher Waite | Larry Wilson |
| 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 |
| Richard Rüdiger | Bruno Frohm |
| Anne Libert | Woman in Red (uncredited) |
| Hal Hamilton | Chris Barnett |
| Jonathan Williams | Jonathan Burton |
| Peter Parten | Peter Wiese |
| Conrad Pringle | Tony Elkins |
| Erich Glavitza | Josef Hauser |
| Peter Huber | Max Kummel |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Erich Glavitza | Stunt Driver |
| Loren Janes | Stunt Double |
| Ghislaine Desjonquères | Editor |
| René Guissart Jr. | Director of Photography |
| Lee H. Katzin | Director |
| John Woodcock | Editor |
| Phil Abramson | Production Design, Costume Design |
| Donald W. Ernst | Editor |
| Robert B. Hauser | Director of Photography |
| Robert L. Rosen | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Harry Kleiner | Writer |
| Jack N. Reddish | Second Unit Director |
| Hubert Froehlich | Production Manager |
| Gus Agosti | First Assistant Director |
| Louis Pitzele | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Les Sheldon | Assistant Director |
| John Franco | Script Supervisor |
| Michael Parkes | Technical Advisor |
| Nikita Knatz | Production Illustrator |
| Ray Summers | Costume Design |
| Donald B. Nunley | Property Master |
| Emile LaVigne | Makeup Artist |
| Marie-France Seyrat | Hairdresser |
| Sass Bedig | Special Effects |
| Gaylin P. Schultz | Camera Loader |
| Michel Bouyer | Camera Operator |
| Alex Barbey | Camera Operator |
| Christian de Cortanze | Camera Operator |
| Claude Mousset | Camera Operator |
| René Astarie | Key Grip |
| Elie Fontanille | Gaffer |
| Vincent Tubbs | Unit Publicist |
| Mel Traxel | Still Photographer |
| André Marc Delourmel | Still Photographer |
| John W. Mitchell | Sound Mixer |
| David Dockendorf | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Jack A. Finlay | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Gene Feldman | Supervising Music Editor |
| Michel Legrand | Original Music Composer |
| Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Steve McQueen | Executive Producer |
| Robert E. Relyea | Executive Producer |
| Jack N. Reddish | Producer |
| Alan Levine | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 17 | 29 | 10 |
| 2024 | 5 | 18 | 27 | 11 |
| 2024 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 8 |
| 2024 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 | 14 | 29 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 6 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 | 10 | 18 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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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 showc ... ase 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!