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  • 1971
  • G
  • National General Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1971
  • G
  • National General Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary 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...

Directed By: Lee H. Katzin, John Sturges

Written By: Harry Kleiner, John T. Kelley

  • 1971
  • G
  • National General Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1971
  • G
  • National General Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Le Mans

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
52
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary 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...

Directed By: Lee H. Katzin, John Sturges

Written By: Harry Kleiner, John T. Kelley

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
52
40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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75
Le Mans needs to be rediscovered so that it can be hopefully embraced as one of star Steve McQueen’s finest hours.
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70
Marked by some spectacular car-racing footage, Le Mans is a successful attempt to escape the pot-boiler of prior films on same subject. The solution was to establish a documentary mood.
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60
Racing fans should love Le Mans' dazzling documentary-like photography, including actual footage from the 1969 and 1970 races, but those who are more interested in an involving story may be disappointed.
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50
It is an unsatisfying film because we know no more about the people at the end than we did at the beginning, in fact, very little at all.
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40
Dramatically, the picture is a bore. And neither the oblique approach to these time-out sequences nor a ripe score by Michel Legrand manages to juice things up.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.1
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5 Ratings
38% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company Cinema Center Films, Solar Productions
Release Date Jun 23, 1971
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline A Story of Heroes
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination

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