The most unique part of this movie was that the film production coincidentally took place during the only year of this type of race start (drivers sitting fully buckled up in the cockpit, with the car turned off in the pit area and in diagonal position). The year before, LeMans still had the classic "LeMans start", with drivers running across the width of the tracks into their cars, starting it, and then racing off. This was the year that a driver was notoriously killed during the first lap because he wasn't buckled in properly, and which Jacky Ickx won the whole race even though he protested the unsafe start conditions by walking slowly to his car and buckling himself in properly before driving off. The year after, LeMans implemented the "Indianapolis start", which is the same rolling start you see nowadays. IMO, it was great fortune that they just happened to make the movie in 1970 because neither the classic "LeMans start" nor the rolling "Indianapolis start" could have that same awesome slow-yet-tense buildup with the heart beating faster and faster until the clock hits zero, the light turns green, the flag waves, and the drivers turn on their engines as a blast of 12-cylinder noises comes roaring to life and the cars zoom out of the pits in a haze of rubber debris and smoke.
Gotta love films like this: No lame music No CGI No cheesy overpaid actors Just the ROAR of V-8's,10's and 12's flying around De La Sarthe and the way they where ment to be seen, heard and driven. 😀 👍
The film definitely had music. The director was simply smart enough to allow the viewers to enjoy a full mostly-uncut first lap with only racing sounds before starting the music and the camera cuts. Luckily for us, it was a cool jazzy 60s soundtrack that fit with the whole decor and feel of the film.
monster boxer 12, and a howl at full song that raises the hair on your neck, 240 mph down the Mulsane Straight with a 4 speed trans, drivers that weren't afraid to drive them that fast, what a car! miss that era.
The 917 boxer 12. In 1970, that was the best sounding car man or god had yet made. Now here we are, poor busted old farts almost 50 years later, and what has changed? The cars don't go as fast, they don't look as good, they are a lot safer & more efficient, and that 917 boxer 12 is still the best sounding engine ever made. Absolute eargasm, every time. The "boxer" 12s made by Ferrari, those sound pretty good too, but those are 180 degree V12s. They're not boxers. Look at a BMW motorcycle engine, from any time in the last century, and that's a boxer. Look at the VW, and that engine was quite literally copied from the BMW bike engine, by Ferdinand Porsche, at the orders of Adolph Hitler. So is the flat 6 in all the 911s, and so is the 917. That's where the design roots come from. Today, you can buy a 911 GT2 RS, which has 700 hp, does comfortably over 200 mph, and goes around the Nordschliffe in about 6:45 or so, and that can trace it's design ancestry back to a motorcycle engine first built in mid 1919. And the AutoUnion grand prix cars...
The best racing film ever made, would have loved to have gone to Le Mans in the 60' and 70's when it was a proper racing track before all the track modifications and the drivers raced by the seat of their pants without electronic aids and they all had balls made of steel, LEGENDS everyone of them
@@eudaldguell3004 Thank you for replying. I just watched a documentary about Le Mans and didn't see anyone by that name, but I'm happy to take your word for it. RIP Helga.
I saw this movie for the first time in a drive-in movie upon its release and multiple times in the coming years at theaters. In November of 1982 I went on vacation from Los Angeles to Paris and took a train to Le Mans and a bus to the race track. I was given a ride around the "Bugatti Course" at racing speed by the chief driving instructor for the drivers school that was in progress. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Tremendous, great memories of the experience, thanks to this movie a Steve Mcqueen.
I remember watching this film in the theater when it first came out. I loved it and was totally mesmerized by the speed, racing action, and feeling like I was in the driver's seat. This film was pure racing, no soap opera, just cars. I loved it and couldn't care less what critics had to say. I saw it several times on the big screen. What a mind blowing experience. The film still holds up today for racing photography.
fun fact: in 1983 when i was living in salzburg, i met paul schwarz, chief mechanic at porsche alpenstraße in salzburg, who was in charge for the red 917 from porsche salzburg. we talked about my then new golf gti which i had brought in for service. he smiled and said: "give us 18.000 schillings (about 1500 dollars then), and nobody will be faster..." he was a genius.
Still up today, the only non-documentary movie that really captures the soul of motor racing. Why?... Simply & intuitive, because it focus on the four wheeled noisy beasts. "...what happens before and after, is just waiting."
What a wonderful reply there's also a great documentary called The Man and LeMans You do believe it's on Amazon prime Worthy of watching It tells the whole story of this film. This was so cutting edge it's still stands to test the time this film is just amazing
@@MrEd-qg8td "Sometimes I wonder if I am an actor who drives racing cars or if I am a racing cars driver who acts" Steve McQueen Regards from Venezuela.
I don't know if it still exists but near the Mulsanne Straight's end is a restaurant that you can enjoy the incredible speeds (slower now), while enjoying a midnight meal. ;-)
Check out the making of this movie on Amazon Prime there's a whole story behind that chick & Steve McQueen. can't remember the title of the documentary but it is behind the scenes of LeMans. Didn't know a guy died during the filming. Didn't know they were almost shut down several times thank goodness they finished filming before money was pulled for the film. It was much like the movie Tropic Thunder but with racing.)
@@artistjoh She's still very much alive, only in her early 70s, so she was very young when this film was made(probably around 23-24 years old at the time).
The filming of the 1970 start is seen here, and it was the first year of the standing start with the driver in the car. Previously it had been the crazy run-across-the street sort.
@@spikespa5208 nah it's stupid because the drivers don't take the proper time to safely attach their seat belts. Some drivers I'm sure would postpone the seat belt until the mulsanne straight. It's a safety thing.
This was the times when only few could really drive. Today everybody can race and cars lost their souls such as the drivers. I wish I could live to see the same cars from '70 race again,one more time.
You can see these cars racing at many of the vintage races in the US and Europe. It isn't the blood thirsty racing from the time, but it is pretty darn good. One of my friends races a Ford GT40 from the 60s. I've driven a Shelby Cobra 427SC.
Descanse En Paz Elga Andersen (2 de Febrero 1935 - 7 de Diciembre 1994) Nacida Helga Hymen en Dortmund, Alemania. Actriz y cantante. Huerfana de padre desde su niñez por causa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a sus 16 años abandonó la escuela secundaria y se empleó como intérprete de inglés y francés para ayudar económicamente a su madre. Trabajó en más de doce películas francesas durante los años 50 y 60. En 1958 actuó en "Buenos días, tristeza / Bonjour Tristesse" dirigida por Otto Preminger, quien le puso el nombre artístico de "Elga Andersen" Cantó los temas "Treu Sein" y "Sundenlied" en el clásico film bélico "Los cañones de Navarone" (1961) Junto a su segundo esposo, Peter Gimbel, participó en una expedición de buceo a los restos sumergidos del SS Andrea Doria en 1981. Descanse En Paz Siegfried Rauch (2 de Abril 1932 - 11 de Marzo 2018) Actor alemán quien inicialmente quiso ser arquitecto, vino al mundo en Landsberg am Lech, Alemania. Su formación e inicio fue en el teatro y luego incursionó en el cine. Uno de sus papeles más recordados es el del Capitán Oskar Steiger en "Patton" (1970) También escribió varios libros, entre ellos "Unser Le Mans, Steve McQueen - Der Film Die Freundschaft Die Fakten" (2016) acerca de su amistad con Steve McQueen, quien fue padrino de su hijo. En 2017 fue premiado con la "Medalla del Estado Libre de Baviera" Saludos desde Venezuela Rest in peace Elga Andersen (February 2, 1935 - December 7, 1994) Born Helga Hymen in Dortmund, Germany. Actress and singer. Without a father since childhood due to World War II, at the age of 16 she dropped out of high school and took a job as an English and French interpreter to help her mother financially. She worked in more than twelve French films during the 50s and 60s. In 1958 she acted in "Good morning, sadness / Bonjour Tristesse" directed by Otto Preminger, who gave her the stage name "Elga Andersen" She sang the songs "Treu Sein" and "Sundenlied" in the classic war film "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) Together with her second husband, Peter Gimbel, she participated in a diving expedition to the submerged remains of the SS Andrea Doria in 1981. Rest in peace Siegfried Rauch (April 2, 1932 - March 11, 2018) A German actor who initially wanted to be an architect, he came to the world in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. His training and start was in the theater and then he ventured into the cinema. One of his most remembered roles is that of Captain Oskar Steiger in "Patton" (1970) He also wrote several books, including "Unser Le Mans, Steve McQueen - Der Film Die Freundschaft Die Fakten" (2016) about his friendship with Steve McQueen, who was his godfather´s son. In 2017 he was awarded the "Bavarian Free State Medal" Greetings from Venezuela
EverythingOrNothing*EON* : you’ve recommended a behind-the-scenes clip on the making of this movie. There’s a few that could be called ‘the making of’ or ‘behind the scenes’. Which ones would you recommend?
You care? The proffessional motorsport is already in the ruins, with all that 1:1 scale modeling, they call "cars", cockheaded twits, who empose their roadrage onto each other after a slight scratching, and the commercial part in the racing event.... i'm sorry, the other way around: the eventual part of racing in the commerce. I say, let them come with scalectrics, we have nothing to lose anyhow.
Este “FILM” más que película, es un documental real de LE MANS 1970 con una historia de un corredor el gran” STEVE MCQUEEN mi ídolo por cierto, nada que ver con efectos visuales irreales y exagerados en computadora como rápidos y furiosos etc etc una verdadera JOYA del cine del mundo motor como lo fue también el FILM de “GRAND PRIX” contemporánea a esta superproducción, esto SI es cine de motores señores!..
Multiple classes compete based on displacement and weight. Paul Newman, and his mates, almost won the whole ball of wax one year in a modified 911. Adam Carolla owns that car now. A bone stock 928gts did extremely well another year.
I love the Ferrari 512s the way it sounds sounds like a sports bike too bad they cut that long straight away two miles straight so they can slow the cars down I really wish Ferrari come back to compete with Porsche and Toyota 2018 la man's
frank Lujan Same with Conrod Straight at Bathurst. The ‘no straight longer than a mile rule’ took away so much of testing of car components, especially at Bathurst where it is all downhill. Cars reached speeds going down the mountain that the manufacturers thought impossible in that vehicle. Those very long straights were rare, but quite wonderful to watch.
The old Mulsanne (Hunaudieres) straight was over three and a half miles long. I remember standing near the track, about halfway down and listening to cars at full throttle for 30 seconds , getting louder and louder until they screamed past me - at 250mph a few feet away - and then another 30 seconds at full throttle into the distance. Amazing. This was well before they slowed down the cars and put in the chicanes.
That ceased after 1969, as a result of John Woolfe's (917) fatal accident on the first lap. The problem was that in some, if not most cases, drivers just speed off once they got into their cars - then somewhere along the Mulsanne they would steer with their knees trying to secure their seat belts. Oddly enough, in this same 1969 race, F1 ace Jacky Ickx staged a safety protest of this problem just as the drivers were given the green flag to run to their cars - as he simply walked across while his competitors ran to their cars. Ickx/Jackie Oliver won that race by a mere 100yds in front of the 2nd place Porsche 908 (Herrmann / Larrousse).
This film definitely has its flaws, but the racing scenes are raw and in your face. Personally I love this movie Mcqueen nailed the essence right in the butt.
This was one of the 1st films That actually paid tribute to car racing there were no stunt drivers. What you're seeing is real unlike the movie Grand Prix with James Garner that was Hollywood krapp. Steve McQueen while filming the movie lemone's was asked by the director to dirty his face up and do it with make up he refused jumped in the car ran a couple laps and came back in his face was perfect for the shoot dirty and real as it got. There's a documentary on the making of this film Steve McQueen was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night Charles Manson killed her and her house guests he was unfortunately in France shooting this movie and missed the party invitation. Steve McQueen was the real deal he did all his own driving in this movie this was the 1st of its kind and remembered As such. There's a documentary on Amazon prime all about the making of this movie I highly recommend checking it out it was worth the watch.
Every single time that Ferrari went to race in the USA kicked the ass of all American. Every single time. Full stop. Sometimes on 1-2-3 parade as in Indianapolis.
Why can I not buy this film on iTunes? Ugh...I’ve been wanting to own it on mobile format for years. Who owns the rights to this film and why are they sitting on it?
EverythingOrNothing*EON* thanks EON, but the only version on amazon prime is The recent documentary about Steve McQueen and the making of film. The actual film itself is not digitally available anywhere other than on DVD (which I own). Somebody’s sitting on it for digital release...grrrr
You spent too much time on the irrelevant start and cut the Mulsanne straight scene and sounds with the long tail 917 and the Gulf 917´and 512´s, pity.
They changed the rules eventually so the drivers would properly fasten their seatbelts and helmets I do believe, if they start in the car, no need to rush
@Buz Aldrin, yes I know, Garner took racing lessons before Grand Prix and did really well in the movie driving himself. Newman once reached 2nd place in a long distance race but only because his pro partner Rolf Stommelen sat behind the steering wheel for 80 % of the racing distance. Though I really don't know how good McQueen or Mr. Bean was.
Makes formula one today look like donkey and pony treck ...come on TV cameras men etc this was 1970 and still 100 x more exciting than modern day dull TV coverage that makes the cars look slow and boring up your game
After 50 years this racing masterpiece finally gets the recognition it deserves , one of the best racing pictures ever made .
One of my favorite movies period.
For those who know, it was recognized a long time ago.
This and "Grand Prix"; better than "Winning" and "To please a lady", and way better than "Rush", "Days of Thunder", etc
That would be Grand Prix
I don’t think Steve McQueen says a word in the first 15 minutes of the film
The greatest race film ever made! The race scenes are iconic! Mc Queen made it real!
This movie deserves a proper 4K restoration. Fantastic film/art!
Could not agree more. Spectacular film.
Ok but no remake please
The most unique part of this movie was that the film production coincidentally took place during the only year of this type of race start (drivers sitting fully buckled up in the cockpit, with the car turned off in the pit area and in diagonal position).
The year before, LeMans still had the classic "LeMans start", with drivers running across the width of the tracks into their cars, starting it, and then racing off. This was the year that a driver was notoriously killed during the first lap because he wasn't buckled in properly, and which Jacky Ickx won the whole race even though he protested the unsafe start conditions by walking slowly to his car and buckling himself in properly before driving off.
The year after, LeMans implemented the "Indianapolis start", which is the same rolling start you see nowadays.
IMO, it was great fortune that they just happened to make the movie in 1970 because neither the classic "LeMans start" nor the rolling "Indianapolis start" could have that same awesome slow-yet-tense buildup with the heart beating faster and faster until the clock hits zero, the light turns green, the flag waves, and the drivers turn on their engines as a blast of 12-cylinder noises comes roaring to life and the cars zoom out of the pits in a haze of rubber debris and smoke.
Pelicula.mitica. Tengo en mi coleccion el Porshe 117. El unico diferente de todos los Ferrari. Pero es que !!!!!!
Gotta love films like this:
No lame music
No CGI
No cheesy overpaid actors
Just the ROAR of V-8's,10's and 12's flying around De La Sarthe and the way they where ment to be seen, heard and driven. 😀 👍
The film definitely had music. The director was simply smart enough to allow the viewers to enjoy a full mostly-uncut first lap with only racing sounds before starting the music and the camera cuts. Luckily for us, it was a cool jazzy 60s soundtrack that fit with the whole decor and feel of the film.
monster boxer 12, and a howl at full song that raises the hair on your neck, 240 mph down the Mulsane Straight with a 4 speed trans, drivers that weren't afraid to drive them that fast, what a car! miss that era.
The 917 boxer 12. In 1970, that was the best sounding car man or god had yet made. Now here we are, poor busted old farts almost 50 years later, and what has changed? The cars don't go as fast, they don't look as good, they are a lot safer & more efficient, and that 917 boxer 12 is still the best sounding engine ever made. Absolute eargasm, every time.
The "boxer" 12s made by Ferrari, those sound pretty good too, but those are 180 degree V12s. They're not boxers. Look at a BMW motorcycle engine, from any time in the last century, and that's a boxer. Look at the VW, and that engine was quite literally copied from the BMW bike engine, by Ferdinand Porsche, at the orders of Adolph Hitler. So is the flat 6 in all the 911s, and so is the 917. That's where the design roots come from.
Today, you can buy a 911 GT2 RS, which has 700 hp, does comfortably over 200 mph, and goes around the Nordschliffe in about 6:45 or so, and that can trace it's design ancestry back to a motorcycle engine first built in mid 1919. And the AutoUnion grand prix cars...
It wasn't the hair on my neck that was getting raised watching that movie, just saying. Nothing finer than a 917
Its not a boxer it’s a 180 degree V12
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti
"The farm is my job; car racing is my hobby"
Jim Clark
"If you aint cheating, you aint trying hard enough"
"While being on the very edge of control is fast, going over the edge out of control just a bit, and bringing it back can be even faster."
MSWC.
"If your feet are coming off the pedals, you have no business being on a bicycle"
Pee Wee Herman
"Don't lift until the fear of death over comes the fear of speed.
"
Unkown
The best racing film ever made, would have loved to have gone to Le Mans in the 60' and 70's when it was a proper racing track before all the track modifications and the drivers raced by the seat of their pants without electronic aids and they all had balls made of steel, LEGENDS everyone of them
My Dad took me to see this in 1971.
Love the end when Stahler looks down the pits at him and McQueen gives him two fingers.
RIP Steve McQueen.
And rip helga andersen, too
The woman in the film is called Louise Edlind.
@@euanelliott3613
Helga Andersen is widow of luca abratti and girlfriend of michael delaney (mc.queen)
@@eudaldguell3004 Thank you for replying.
I just watched a documentary about Le Mans and didn't see anyone by that name, but I'm happy to take your word for it.
RIP Helga.
@@euanelliott3613
And louise what another beauty!! I think she.s alive
I saw this movie for the first time in a drive-in movie upon its release and multiple times in the coming years at theaters. In November of 1982 I went on vacation from Los Angeles to Paris and took a train to Le Mans and a bus to the race track. I was given a ride around the "Bugatti Course" at racing speed by the chief driving instructor for the drivers school that was in progress. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Tremendous, great memories of the experience, thanks to this movie a Steve Mcqueen.
Tom most agree that is a memory you'll never forget.
Outstanding!!
Nothing rivals this movie! True racing fans know!
The sound of that Porsche flat twelve is still the best sound in racing today imo!
Most agreed.
Bought a Porsche Just so I can hear that howl at 7000 rpm.
Nothing like that 12 cylinder boxer.
@@EverythingorNothing you own a Porsche flat 12 ? wow !!
@@EverythingorNothingThe 917 Flat 12 isn't a boxer, it has the same attributes as a 180 degree v12 with two connecting rods per crank pin.
This is old school, classic, awesome!
I remember watching this film in the theater when it first came out. I loved it and was totally mesmerized by the speed, racing action, and feeling like I was in the driver's seat. This film was pure racing, no soap opera, just cars. I loved it and couldn't care less what critics had to say. I saw it several times on the big screen. What a mind blowing experience. The film still holds up today for racing photography.
Dad took me, age 8, to see this in theater...been a Porsche & McQueen fan ever since. Thank You Dad!!
fun fact: in 1983 when i was living in salzburg, i met paul schwarz, chief mechanic at porsche alpenstraße in salzburg, who was in charge for the red 917 from porsche salzburg. we talked about my then new golf gti which i had brought in for service. he smiled and said: "give us 18.000 schillings (about 1500 dollars then), and nobody will be faster..." he was a genius.
Still entranced by those two beautiful actresses almost 50 years later. To hell with the race..
Unforgetable!!!
Still up today, the only non-documentary movie that really captures the soul of motor racing.
Why?... Simply & intuitive, because it focus on the four wheeled noisy beasts.
"...what happens before and after, is just waiting."
What a wonderful reply there's also a great documentary called The Man and LeMans You do believe it's on Amazon prime Worthy of watching It tells the whole story of this film.
This was so cutting edge it's still stands to test the time this film is just amazing
At 109 Louise edlind lovely looking
I love this film
I agree with you 100% I actually saw this in the theater in 1971 with my dad. Yeah I am old!!!
@@MrEd-qg8td
"Sometimes I wonder if I am an actor who drives racing cars or if I am a racing cars driver who acts"
Steve McQueen
Regards from Venezuela.
Watching this film and f1 since 2005 when I was 2 made me love cars
It’s a great film, racing sequences are breathtaking
I don't know if it still exists but near the Mulsanne Straight's end is a restaurant that you can enjoy the incredible speeds (slower now), while enjoying a midnight meal. ;-)
Brilliant.
One of my all time favorite movies. I have always thought that the brunette woman with the tan jacket is one of the most beautiful women of all time.
Check out the making of this movie on Amazon Prime there's a whole story behind that chick & Steve McQueen.
can't remember the title of the documentary but it is behind the scenes of LeMans.
Didn't know a guy died during the filming.
Didn't know they were almost shut down several times thank goodness they finished filming before money was pulled for the film.
It was much like the movie Tropic Thunder but with racing.)
Eric Larson she is gorgeous. And the sort of pure beauty that if she is still alive today she would still be gorgeous.
@@artistjoh She's still very much alive, only in her early 70s, so she was very young when this film was made(probably around 23-24 years old at the time).
05gtdriver And I bet I am right about her still being gorgeous :)
1: Hedy Lemarr.
2: Elizabeth Taylor.
3: Lesley-Anne Down.
4: Carole Royle.
5: Joanna Pettet.
6: Suzanne Pleshette.
7: Kika Markham.
8: Jenny Agutter.
9: Claudia Cardinale.
10: Eva Green.
With that clock ticking down the last minute, I was waiting for John Herod to show up.
The filming of the 1970 start is seen here, and it was the first year of the standing start with the driver in the car. Previously it had been the crazy run-across-the street sort.
This standing, driver-in-the-car, engine off start should be brought back. Starting the car is part of racing.
The run across the track made it more interesting.
@@spikespa5208 nah it's stupid because the drivers don't take the proper time to safely attach their seat belts. Some drivers I'm sure would postpone the seat belt until the mulsanne straight. It's a safety thing.
@@aztronomy7457
There was an interview where Dan Gurney talked about guiding the steering wheel with his knees while fastening his belt. Gulp....
GREAT MOVIE! A classic battle! FERRARI VS PORSCHE!
I agree I just watched it again last night on DVD it is mind-boggling how they put this film together back in the day this was so cutting-edge.
Amazing film!! Forever....the real sound and epic battle of PORSCHE and FERRARI..🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎
And Porsche won
These three minutes are better then the entire new movie.
This was the times when only few could really drive. Today everybody can race and cars lost their souls such as the drivers. I wish I could live to see the same cars from '70 race again,one more time.
You can see these cars racing at many of the vintage races in the US and Europe. It isn't the blood thirsty racing from the time, but it is pretty darn good. One of my friends races a Ford GT40 from the 60s. I've driven a Shelby Cobra 427SC.
He never would talk movies at a race. When he raced it was racing and he was a driver!
And 2 drivers by car and no 60 min. safety cars when raining
Descanse En Paz
Elga Andersen
(2 de Febrero 1935 - 7 de Diciembre 1994)
Nacida Helga Hymen en Dortmund, Alemania. Actriz y cantante. Huerfana de padre desde su niñez por causa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a sus 16 años abandonó la escuela secundaria y se empleó como intérprete de inglés y francés para ayudar económicamente a su madre. Trabajó en más de doce películas francesas durante los años 50 y 60. En 1958 actuó en "Buenos días, tristeza / Bonjour Tristesse" dirigida por Otto Preminger, quien le puso el nombre artístico de "Elga Andersen" Cantó los temas "Treu Sein" y "Sundenlied" en el clásico film bélico "Los cañones de Navarone" (1961) Junto a su segundo esposo, Peter Gimbel, participó en una expedición de buceo a los restos sumergidos del SS Andrea Doria en 1981.
Descanse En Paz
Siegfried Rauch
(2 de Abril 1932 - 11 de Marzo 2018)
Actor alemán quien inicialmente quiso ser arquitecto, vino al mundo en Landsberg am Lech, Alemania. Su formación e inicio fue en el teatro y luego incursionó en el cine. Uno de sus papeles más recordados es el del Capitán Oskar Steiger en "Patton" (1970) También escribió varios libros, entre ellos "Unser Le Mans, Steve McQueen - Der Film Die Freundschaft Die Fakten" (2016) acerca de su amistad con Steve McQueen, quien fue padrino de su hijo. En 2017 fue premiado con la "Medalla del Estado Libre de Baviera"
Saludos desde Venezuela
Rest in peace
Elga Andersen
(February 2, 1935 - December 7, 1994)
Born Helga Hymen in Dortmund, Germany. Actress and singer. Without a father since childhood due to World War II, at the age of 16 she dropped out of high school and took a job as an English and French interpreter to help her mother financially. She worked in more than twelve French films during the 50s and 60s. In 1958 she acted in "Good morning, sadness / Bonjour Tristesse" directed by Otto Preminger, who gave her the stage name "Elga Andersen" She sang the songs "Treu Sein" and "Sundenlied" in the classic war film "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) Together with her second husband, Peter Gimbel, she participated in a diving expedition to the submerged remains of the SS Andrea Doria in 1981.
Rest in peace
Siegfried Rauch
(April 2, 1932 - March 11, 2018)
A German actor who initially wanted to be an architect, he came to the world in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. His training and start was in the theater and then he ventured into the cinema. One of his most remembered roles is that of Captain Oskar Steiger in "Patton" (1970) He also wrote several books, including "Unser Le Mans, Steve McQueen - Der Film Die Freundschaft Die Fakten" (2016) about his friendship with Steve McQueen, who was his godfather´s son. In 2017 he was awarded the "Bavarian Free State Medal"
Greetings from Venezuela
When racing drivers had balls bigger than an elephant.
EverythingOrNothing*EON* : you’ve recommended a behind-the-scenes clip on the making of this movie. There’s a few that could be called ‘the making of’ or ‘behind the scenes’. Which ones would you recommend?
There is a great documentary on the making of This film on Amazon Prime.
Steve McQueen The Man & Le Mans
EverythingOrNothing*EON* - I will check it out, thanks!
La mejor película de automovilismo de todos los tiempos.
Brilliant movie even if the plot is a bit thin. As a motor racing fan, this has so much fascination.
The plot is the race itself. The words of Mr McQueen himself.
@@chuckyboy6977 Exactly :-)
Gawd, it’ll be sad when E-racing takes over.
You care? The proffessional motorsport is already in the ruins, with all that 1:1 scale modeling, they call "cars", cockheaded twits, who empose their roadrage onto each other after a slight scratching, and the commercial part in the racing event.... i'm sorry, the other way around: the eventual part of racing in the commerce. I say, let them come with scalectrics, we have nothing to lose anyhow.
great stuff!
Bet that 914 whooped ALL that ass too
Este “FILM” más que película, es un documental real de LE MANS 1970 con una historia de un corredor el gran” STEVE MCQUEEN mi ídolo por cierto, nada que ver con efectos visuales irreales y exagerados en computadora como rápidos y furiosos etc etc una verdadera JOYA del cine del mundo motor como lo fue también el FILM de “GRAND PRIX” contemporánea a esta superproducción, esto SI es cine de motores señores!..
I think I”ll stand at the outside of a corner
Right up there with Grand Prix. Sad to see the hump on the Mulsanne straight lowered.
Awesome movie. Please Dollywood don't make a remake of it. It ain't be better than this. Steve Mcqueen
2:06 Someone was actually driving a puny little 914 in that race, he must have been run over
Multiple classes compete based on displacement and weight. Paul Newman, and his mates, almost won the whole ball of wax one year in a modified 911. Adam Carolla owns that car now. A bone stock 928gts did extremely well another year.
@@hugh-johnfleming289 A Ford Capri won it's class in 1972 and finished 8th overall, not too shabby for a 295 HP Cologne V-6 :-)
I love the Ferrari 512s the way it sounds sounds like a sports bike too bad they cut that long straight away two miles straight so they can slow the cars down I really wish Ferrari come back to compete with Porsche and Toyota 2018 la man's
frank Lujan Same with Conrod Straight at Bathurst. The ‘no straight longer than a mile rule’ took away so much of testing of car components, especially at Bathurst where it is all downhill. Cars reached speeds going down the mountain that the manufacturers thought impossible in that vehicle. Those very long straights were rare, but quite wonderful to watch.
The old Mulsanne (Hunaudieres) straight was over three and a half miles long. I remember standing near the track, about halfway down and listening to cars at full throttle for 30 seconds , getting louder and louder until they screamed past me - at 250mph a few feet away - and then another 30 seconds at full throttle into the distance. Amazing. This was well before they slowed down the cars and put in the chicanes.
A great film and reminds me of why Le Mans continues to draw in the crowds even today. So much better than F1
Tom Burroughes or NASCAR.
You’re an idiot if you Le Mans is better than F1
Where are the other 23 h of filming images?
Sempre e x sempre eccezionale.x tutti quelli che amano le automobili
Just think of how Formula 1 is now... Ha..no earplugs required. Now this is racing!!
Tell me about it isn't that sound truly intoxicating.
At the time this movie was made didn't the drivers still run across the track and jump into the cars?
That ceased after 1969, as a result of John Woolfe's (917) fatal accident on the first lap. The problem was that in some, if not most cases, drivers just speed off once they got into their cars - then somewhere along the Mulsanne they would steer with their knees trying to secure their seat belts.
Oddly enough, in this same 1969 race, F1 ace Jacky Ickx staged a safety protest of this problem just as the drivers were given the green flag to run to their cars - as he simply walked across while his competitors ran to their cars.
Ickx/Jackie Oliver won that race by a mere 100yds in front of the 2nd place Porsche 908 (Herrmann / Larrousse).
This film definitely has its flaws, but the racing scenes are raw and in your face. Personally I love this movie Mcqueen nailed the essence right in the butt.
This was one of the 1st films That actually paid tribute to car racing there were no stunt drivers.
What you're seeing is real unlike the movie Grand Prix with James Garner that was Hollywood krapp.
Steve McQueen while filming the movie lemone's was asked by the director to dirty his face up and do it with make up he refused jumped in the car ran a couple laps and came back in his face was perfect for the shoot dirty and real as it got.
There's a documentary on the making of this film Steve McQueen was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night Charles Manson killed her and her house guests he was unfortunately in France shooting this movie and missed the party invitation.
Steve McQueen was the real deal he did all his own driving in this movie this was the 1st of its kind and remembered As such.
There's a documentary on Amazon prime all about the making of this movie I highly recommend checking it out it was worth the watch.
Had this movie on vhs................ dry but compelling!
Ford would still be kicking their ass if there were no cubic inch restrictions
Porsche and Ferrari cried like little babies. They didn't like Americans beating them at their own game. They are still that way.
Porsche went to Can Am 72 73 and kick McLaren Chevys
Every single time that Ferrari went to race in the USA kicked the ass of all American. Every single time. Full stop. Sometimes on 1-2-3 parade as in Indianapolis.
Next year, a rolling start would begin evert race. That's what it oughtta be, mates!
Why can I not buy this film on iTunes? Ugh...I’ve been wanting to own it on mobile format for years. Who owns the rights to this film and why are they sitting on it?
I found it on it Amazon Prime.
EverythingOrNothing*EON* thanks EON, but the only version on amazon prime is The recent documentary about Steve McQueen and the making of film. The actual film itself is not digitally available anywhere other than on DVD (which I own). Somebody’s sitting on it for digital release...grrrr
You're right my mistake I did have to buy this DVD..
Amazon Prime only has the documentary on the film's making.
Damn, this movie is great!
The sound of 917s
You spent too much time on the irrelevant start and cut the Mulsanne straight scene and sounds with the long tail 917 and the Gulf 917´and 512´s, pity.
Who is the actress @1:09?
Louise Edlind
go to 1:36
Many say this is not really a good film. I disagree.
The greatest racing movie ever
"A veces me pregunto si soy un actor que pilota autos de carrera ó si soy un piloto de carreras que actúa"
Steve McQueen
What
@@realseal62 "At times I ask myself if I am an actor who pilots race cars or if I am really a pilot of race cars."
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Thank you very much! I was just to translate my comment to our common friend @realseal 62. Reards from Venezuela.
@@realseal62
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm an actor who drives race cars or if I'm a racing driver who acts"
Steve McQueen
Greetings from Venezuela.
"God gave me an okay mind but a really good ass"……... Niki Lauda in the movie Rush.
Le plus merveilleux circuit au Monde....
No apostrophe in Mans.
I'm I missing something, le mans start
When no alonso winning alone😁😁
Muito bom.
Love it
Up a bit :)
The first part of the sound track is of a15 year old boy you just found redtube...
Still..the best.Ford vs ferrari track scenes were shit
Why is he already in the car at the start?
Perhaps he's a Disabled Badge Holder. Doesn't seem fair on the others.
They changed the rules eventually so the drivers would properly fasten their seatbelts and helmets I do believe, if they start in the car, no need to rush
Seat belts. What a concept for a racing car.
A lot of things we have in cars today actually appeared in race cars first. It's interesting to see the evolution from both sides of the barrier
@@dr.woofle8663 Good job they scrapped the 'Le Mans' start, otherwise everyday cars might have had gullwing doors!
Camaras de cine,cual 4k.
Love the portions of the movie where there are the periods of nothing but the sound of screaming engines. Crank the sound up as high as possible.
Who's Steve m queen
George Saunders the LORD PILOT of the RACING CARS!!..
McQueen was also an accomplished off road motorcycle racer.
"Who's Buz Aldrin?"
Bing Gordon (8th man on the moon and 1st with a moustache)
@@SirOliverNorwell Actors who were actual racers: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner, and...Mr. Bean.
@Buz Aldrin, yes I know, Garner took racing lessons before Grand Prix and did really well in the movie driving himself. Newman once reached 2nd place in a long distance race but only because his pro partner Rolf Stommelen sat behind the steering wheel for 80 % of the racing distance. Though I really don't know how good McQueen or Mr. Bean was.
Makes formula one today look like donkey and pony treck ...come on TV cameras men etc this was 1970 and still 100 x more exciting than modern day dull TV coverage that makes the cars look slow and boring up your game
No health and safety ear defenders in those days....
Pardon
didn’t they have to run across the track, jump in the car, and start it before all the drama started ?
Ok, Im sorry I saw Ford vs Ferrari
Hollywood....
Yes, they did run every year up to 1969. 1970 was the only year they started in the pit lane strapped in, then a rolling start every year since.
Those are the asbestos masks that ended up killing him.
If u were a race fan youde be in Nirvana!
1:39 white woman ?
1:39 Louise Edlind Friberg (Swedish)
1:40 Elga Andersen (German) 🌿✝️
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SマックイーンがJスタージェス監督を解雇したけど、その結果が只のスピードレースみたいになって興行収益は、散々やったみたいやな。自己中心的な結果が全てやったみたいやけど。
Yes, the film is now seen as historic but spare a few moments for the poor people that paid to watch and had to sit through it
この映画は商業的に失敗だったんだよねぇ。マックイーンの趣味の映画やったから。
Someone needs to remove the apostrophe on title of this TH-cam post. Ignorant!