Le Mans [Blu-ray] Reviews

In the 1960s, three American film actors were notable participants in high speed racing: James Garner, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen. As it happens, each of them got to star in a movie about racing: Grand Prix (detailing an entire season on the Grand Prix circuit) for Garner, Winning (taking place at the Indianapolis 500) for Newman, and Le Mans for McQueen. McQueen’s entry came last and is in many ways the best and certainly the most unique. The plot of the film has been cut to a bare minimum (gone are the lengthy melodramatic plots for the stars and co-stars in the other two films) in order to focus on the film’s raison d’etre: the twenty-four hours of Le Mans. Everything and everyone apart from that grueling race are considered excess baggage.

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