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"Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH!". Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga Andersen. The dramatic angle to this plot wrinkle is that McQueen may well have been responsible for the death of Andersen's husband during a previous car pile-up. Director John Sturges, who'd previously helmed Steve McQueen's legendary motorcycle chase scenes in The Great Escape, was originally slated to direct Le Mans, but withdrew from the project; it was then taken over by Lee H. Katzin.
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10 (12448)
Directed by: Lee H. Katzin
Writer credits: Harry Kleiner - Harry Kleiner
Cast: Steve McQueen - Siegfried Rauch - Elga Andersen - Ronald Leigh-Hunt - Fred Haltiner
AKA: Le Mans 1971, As 24 Horas de Le Mans
