Le Mans

United States

1971

106 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

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DP Robert B. Hauser, René Guissart Jr.

CAST Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Fred Haltiner, Luc Merenda, Christopher Waite, Louise Edlind, Angelo Infanti, Jean-Claude Bercq, Gino Cassani

ED Ghislaine Desjonquères, Donald W. Ernst, John Woodcock

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world’s hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate – but it’s still a challenge for concentration and material. In the focus is the duel between the German Stahler in Ferrari 512LM and the American Delaney in Gulf Team Porsche 917. Delaney is under extraordinary pressure, because the year before he caused a severe accident, in which his friend Lisa’s husband was killed. –Paramount

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Matt Parks

6Aug10

It would have been interesting to see what John Sturges did with this film. As it is it's an interesting oddity--very little dialogue and an idiosyncratic use of zooms.