Le Mans 1971
6.7 / 10
Le Mans
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.
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.
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... Michael Delaney
... Erich Stahler
... Lisa Belgetti
... David Townsend
... Johann Ritter
... Claude Aurac
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See All 1 Reviews13 Apr 2023 by CinemaSerf
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!
Release Date:
Jun 23, 1971 (United States)
Run Time:
1hr 44`
MMPA Rating:
G
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released
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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 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!
Cast & Crew of
Le Mans
Directors & Credit Writers
... Second Unit First Assistant Director
JF
John Franco... Script Supervisor
JNR
Jack N. Reddish... Second Unit Director
Cast
... Michael Delaney
... Erich Stahler
... Lisa Belgetti
... David Townsend
... Johann Ritter
... Claude Aurac
... Larry Wilson
... Anna Ritter
... Lugo Abratte
... Paul-Jacques Dion
... Vito Scaliso
GC
Gino Cassani... Loretto Fuselli
AB
Alfred Bell... Tommy Hopkins
... Paolo Scadenza
... Bruno Frohm
... Woman in Red (uncredited)
HH
Hal Hamilton... Chris Barnett
... Jonathan Burton
PP
Peter Parten... Peter Wiese
... Tony Elkins
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