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Harry Kleiner (writer)
Release Date:
23 June 1971 (USA)
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Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH!
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Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Jerry Seinfeld cracks joke that's so...Seinfeld
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 18 August 2009, 7:41 AM, PDT)
Steve McQueen's Le Mans Heuer Monaco watch up for auction
(From BoxWish. 19 May 2009, 4:04 AM, PDT)
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 18 August 2009, 7:41 AM, PDT)
Steve McQueen's Le Mans Heuer Monaco watch up for auction
(From BoxWish. 19 May 2009, 4:04 AM, PDT)
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Still the most authentic motor racing movie ever made
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 | ... | Mrs. 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 |
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106 min
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Mono (35 mm prints)
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The Porsche 917 which McQueen drove in the film (chassis 022) would later be sold to a privateer for its last competitive year driven regularly by Reinhold Jöst and Willi Kauhsen, before later being sold to race driver and film participant Brian Redman. Redman then sold it to Richard Attwood, the 1970 winner and another film participant, who referred to it as "his pension". Attwood then resprayed it to his 1970 winning color of red with white stripes as well attending numerous shows with it. He later sprayed it to the blue and orange Gulf Oil colors for promotional purposes and auctioned the car off at RM Auctions during the Monterey Historics weekend for less than £1 million in 2000 to Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler, a noted collector. Chandler then sold the car to Bruce McCaw, and it was maintained at Vintage Racing Motors in Redmond, WA. Later, it was moved on to the hands of its current owner, Jerry Seinfeld.
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Continuity: While the track announcements are given in both French and English at the beginning of the race (and movie), throughout the rest of the movie they are in English only, which would not occur at Le Mans.
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Lisa Belgetti:
When people risk their lives, shouldn't it be for something very important?
Michael Delaney: Well, it better be.
Lisa Belgetti: But what is so important about driving faster than anyone else?
Michael Delaney: Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
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Michael Delaney: Well, it better be.
Lisa Belgetti: But what is so important about driving faster than anyone else?
Michael Delaney: Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
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Featured in Then She Found Me (2007)
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One of my Christmas presents last year was a copy of Michael Keyser's book "A French Kiss With Death" about the making of this movie (I had to drop a BIG hint!). Having just finished the book I watched the movie again with a much greater understanding of how it came to be made and the problems which plagued its production.
It is probably extremely rare for a major feature film to have absolutely no script - not even an outline - and no female lead after two months of shooting, but that was indicative of the sort of movie McQueen was determined to make. The race IS the story, and the story of the race is very well told. McQueen's racing experience, his need to have credibility within the racing world and the large number of real racing drivers and real racing cars involved all add up to an authenticity which exceeded that of Frankenheimer's "Grand Prix" and which is still unequalled. A couple of minor errors in the cars' paint jobs fail to dampen the reality of the on-track action.
It is true that the off-track storyline is a little weak, and some of the performances are a bit hammy, but McQueen absolutely nailed the "feel" of the Le Mans race. For this reason it is many race fans' favourite movie. It's certainly mine .