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In this film, steve mcqueen is ideally cast as a champion racecar driver, participating in the famed 24hour race headquartered in le mans, france. The actor also competed in offroad motorcycle racing, often entering competitions under the pseudonym harvey mushman. Gabriel clarke and john mckenna deliver an insightful postmortem, 44 years after the death of the ultimate king of cool, with steve mcqueen. Mcqueen began the 1970s with the sports drama le mans 1971, a fictional take on the annual 24 hours of le mans endurance races. Over 25 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, steve mcqueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture. What a breath of fresh air this 1972 heist chase movie turned out to be. Steve mcqueen full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. A classic autoracing movie starring steve mcqueen, le mans puts the audience in the.

He starred in such features as the great escape, bullitt and. Mcqueens 1969 lola t70 from le mans to cross auction. It was the same car that was used as a camera car in the film le mans. The car movie that made steve mcqueen lose his cool for steve mcqueen, filming his race car movie le mans was the culmination of a dream and yet it wrecked his life. Hot off the back of classics like the thomas crown affair and bullitt, the racing fanatic began production of his passion project, le mans, centered on the 24hour car race in france. Friends and family of hollywood legend steve mcqueen have revealed the lothario would have sex with up to two women in his lunch hour. A featurelength documentary about steve mcqueen and his famous le mans film will be released on dvd and as a digital download next week. In addition to hyper realistic characterizations of the mccoys played by steve mcqueen and ali macgraw, everything else about this movie rings true. Steve mcqueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed.

Making le mans nearly destroyed mcqueen, new documentary. The album features the films original music composed by jim copperthwaite. Varese sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the documentary steve mcqueen. Steve mcqueen, himself a championship racer, did most of his own driving on the harrowing 8. This was mcqueens lowkey cinema comeback after the debacle of le mans, a. Its said that more than a million feet of film was shot during the making of. This is what goes on in the lives of two race teams during the 24 hours of lemans, with just enough drama. This has the most incredible racing footage ive ever seen in a film because its all real. Le mans 24 hours for steve mcqueen, and many others, a race like no other. Le mans 24 hours for steve mcqueen, and many others, a.

By the time he made the getaway in 1972 and took his costar ali macgraw as his second wife he had started. I was eager to watch this movie, its quite a musthave for car racing lovers and steve mcqueen fans. Also included is the score for the 1971 film le mans composed by. Le mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 hours of le mans auto race starring steve mcqueen and directed by lee h. He was the ultracool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the worlds most popular actor. He was the king of cool and the worlds most notorious ladies man.

Steve mcqueen was the king of cool, the biggest film star in the world, with boxoffice smashes such as the magnificent seven, the great escape and bullitt behind him. It features actual footage captured during the 1970 race held the previous june. Mcqueens solar productions, complete with heavy movie cameras capturing actual racing footage. Mcqueen raced in highprofile, offroad races during the. Almost at the verge of documentary, film depicts a single auto race from the ground up. Steve mcqueen in le mans racing is life fan trailer.