Le Mans
1971 · Movie · G · 104 min · ★ 6.8 · 61% critics
Set during the famous 24-hour endurance race in France, a professional driver returns to compete while carrying the weight of a past on-track tragedy. As the event unfolds with relentless speed and danger, he also finds himself drawn into a complicated connection off the track.
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Details
- Years
- 1971
- Release date
- 1971-06-23
- Language
- English
- Rated
- G
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (273 votes)
- Budget
- $7,600,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an almost documentary-like immersion in endurance racing and can live with minimal dialogue and character focus; Not for you if you need a strong drama plot like Convoy or Midway.
Pros: thrilling race footage; authentic track atmosphere; memorable engine roar | Cons: thin story; very little dialogue; romance feels tacked-on
Themes
- sense of guilt
- road trip
- le mans
- race car driver
- race car crash
- motorsport
- factual
- enthusiastic
Cast & crew
Steve McQueen
as Michael Delaney
Siegfried Rauch
as Erich Stahler
Elga Andersen
as Lisa Belgetti
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as David Townsend
- FH
Fred Haltiner
as Johann Ritter
Luc Merenda
as Claude Aurac
- CW
Christopher Waite
as Larry Wilson
Louise Edlind
as Anna Ritter
Angelo Infanti
as Lugo Abratte
- JB
Jean-Claude Bercq
as Paul-Jacques Dion
Directed by Lee H. Katzin