Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Jun 23, 1971 Wide
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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,
Jun 23, 1971 Wide
Apr 29, 2003
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spectatorship as personal gratification.
Le Mans needs to be rediscovered so that it can be hopefully embraced as one of star Steve McQueen's finest hours.
...certainly an unusual movie, short on story but long on the pure action of racing. (Blu-ray edition)
...one of the best pure racing movies ever made. But if you don't like automobile racing, you might not find much to enjoy.
It's better perhaps to view it as a visual poem about cars in motion.
Who needs a story when all you care about is the racing!
Wow how long as it taking me to watch this movie,hmm to long.For anyone who loves motorsports will enjoy this classic mockumantary about the worlds most famous race.Yes its dated but is a throw back to the days when racing was suicide with on limts.I've been to le mans a few times now and yes the race circuit as been
June 10, 2009Super Reviewer
Steve McQueen racing vanity project. If you like racing, you will be good to go. If you want a movie, you're in trouble! There is pretty much no story, just racing. The action is done very well, and is to be commended. McQueen's usual sleep walking performance does nothing for the film.
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