Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Steve McQueen | ... | Michael Delaney | |
Siegfried Rauch | ... | Erich Stahler | |
Elga Andersen | ... | Lisa Belgetti | |
Ronald Leigh-Hunt | ... | David Townsend | |
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Fred Haltiner | ... | Johann Ritter |
Luc Merenda | ... | Claude Aurac | |
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Christopher Waite | ... | Larry Wilson |
Louise Edlind | ... | Mrs. Anna Ritter | |
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Angelo Infanti | ... | Lugo Abratte |
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Jean-Claude Bercq | ... | Paul-Jacques Dion |
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Michele Scalera | ... | Vito Scaliso |
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Gino Cassani | ... | Loretto Fuselli |
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Alfred Bell | ... | Tommy Hopkins |
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Carlo Cecchi | ... | Paolo Scadenza |
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Richard Rüdiger | ... | Bruno Frohm |
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 13.4 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. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
If you are a petrol head and you have never seen this film you must have been born on another planet and I urge you to see it now. This film can be best described as motor racing porn. Incredible race car footage shot at the 1970 le Mans 24 hours race together with all the tensions and incidents of this famous endurance battle. Cameo appearances of famous race car drivers of the period. Full of staged crashes with cars that would now be worth $ millions. Not much of a story line and that was intentional, but who cares. This is motor racing at its best full of incident and as near to the real Le Mans as you can get. A veritable masterpiece of cinematic history.As fresh today as when it first hit the silver screen in 1971.