Rediscover the thrill of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with this splendid Le Mans Movie Poster featuring actor Steve McQueen, which will be ideal for your decoration!
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Description of this Steve McQueen Le Mans Movie Poster
Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin. It contains actual footage captured during the 1970 race, which took place the previous June.
Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen), a top driver at Le Mans, spots Lisa (Elga Andersen), the widow of his former rival Piero Belgetti, buying flowers a few days before the race. He then visits the scene of the accident that killed her husband the previous year. He has a flashback of Belgetti losing control of his Ferrari, forcing him to crash as well.
Like many others, Lisa seems to believe that Delaney is at least partly responsible for the accident. During the race, she is understandably dejected and tries to overcome her emotions. In an awkward scene, Delaney looks for a seat in the commissary of the nearly empty racetrack, only to ask Lisa if he can join her, claiming it’s the only seat left. There’s obvious tension between them, but also respect and a hint of mutual attraction.
Thirteen hours into the race, Erich Stahler (Siegfried Rauch) spins his Ferrari 512 at Indianapolis Corner, sending his teammate Claude Aurac (Luc Merenda) into a serious crash. Momentarily distracted by flames from Aurac’s car, Delaney reacts too late to avoid a slower car, hitting the guardrail and then bouncing back and forth across the road, repeatedly hitting the guardrails on both sides of the road, and totaling his Porsche 917. Both survive, but Aurac’s injuries are significant, and he is airlifted to a hospital. Lisa appears at the track clinic where Delaney is briefly treated. She is distraught by the accident, which brings up emotions related to Piero’s death, which she had been trying to put aside. Delaney consoles her and saves her from a horde of reporters. After putting her in a car, a reporter asks Delaney if her accident and Aurac’s are comparable to Belgetti’s the previous year. Delaney just stares at him.
Porsche driver Johann Ritter senses that his wife, Anna, would like him to retire from racing. He suggests it, thinking she will be delighted. She backs down and says she would only like it if she enjoyed it. He criticizes her a little for not being entirely honest. Later, the decision gets out of hand when team principal David Townsend (Ronald Leigh-Hunt) replaces him because he isn’t fast enough on the track. Anna tries to comfort him by reminding him that he had intended to quit anyway.
Lisa goes to Delaney’s trailer to talk to him. After his near-death experience, she is even more drawn to him and despairs that he will meet the same fate as her husband, but Delaney finds the thrill too strong to give up. Townsend enters and asks him to take the wheel of Ritter’s car. After a moment of unspoken communion with Lisa, he follows Townsend, who says, “Michael, I want you to drive your ass off. I want Porsche to win Le Mans.”
In the final minutes of the race, the two Porsches and their rival Ferraris battle for victory, with Delaney in the No. 21 car and his teammate Larry Wilson in the No. 22. The leading Ferrari retires with a flat tire, leaving Wilson in the lead and only Delaney’s nemesis, Stahler, to contend with. The faster duo quickly caught Wilson. Delaney passed Stahler for second place.
Slower traffic in his lane forced Delaney to brake, allowing Stahler to pass on the left. Delaney passed the German, then the two pulled up alongside Wilson. Delaney then took action that seemed designed to guarantee a 1-2 Porsche victory rather than going for first place himself. Rather than try to pass Wilson, and then possibly Stahler, Delaney moved into the right lane and lapped Wilson, allowing the two to line up with Stahler. And for good measure, he hit Stahler twice. When Stahler tried to pass him again, Delaney steered toward him, which seemed to indicate he might hit him again and send him into the guardrail, forcing him to slow down and brake to avoid that outcome, thus ensuring Porsche the desired 1-2 finish.