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Favorite Steve McQueen Films

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635

7.5

7.4

Bullitt (1968)

Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon and Simon Oakland

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

kathy's rating:

267

7.1

6.9

The Thomas Crown Affair

Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Gordon Pinsent and Yaphet Kotto

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

kathy's rating:

157

7.3

7.2

The Cincinnati Kid

Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Rip Torn, Joan Blondell, Cab Calloway and Jeff Corey

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

kathy's rating:

7.2

6.8

The Reivers (1969)

Director: Mark Rydell
Based on the William Faulkner novel 'The Reivers'
Starring: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Rupert Crosse, Will Geer, Juano Hernandez, Michael Constantine, Clifton James, Diane Ladd, Burgess Meredith and Dub Taylor

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.

kathy's rating:

746

7.6

7.7

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Director: John Sturges
Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Eli Wallach, Horst Bucholtz and Brad Dexter

An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

kathy's rating:

857

7.6

Papillon

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Woodrow Parfrey, Anthony Zerbe, Bill Mumy, Robert Deman and George Coularis

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

kathy's rating:

1263

8.2

The Great Escape (1963)

Director: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum, John Leyton, Gordon Jackson and James Donald

Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

kathy's rating:

131

7.4

7.6

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna, Simon Oakland, Ford Rainey, Gavin MacLeod and James Hong

In 1926 U.S. Naval Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo (nicknamed the Sand Pebble), assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn China.

His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigners on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

kathy's rating:

352

7.4

The Getaway (1972)

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens, Bo Hopkins, Richard Bright and Dub Taylor

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

kathy's rating:

7.2

6.9

Nevada Smith (1966)

Director: Henry Hathaway
Producers: Henry Hathaway, Joseph E. Levine and Steve McQueen
Based on the character in the Harold Robbins novel 'The Carpet Baggers'
Starring: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Martin Landau, Raf Vallone and Janet Margolin

A naive half-Indian, half-white man evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.

kathy's rating:

7.6

7.3

Love with the Proper Stranger

Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi and Tom Bosley

When Angie Rossini finds out she's pregnant, she tracks down Rocky Papasano, the musician with whom she had a one night stand. Angie works in a department store and comes from a close-knit Italian family where her brothers keep a close eye on her. The two really don't know one another but Rocky agrees to arrange for her to have an abortion.

However, when he sees the conditions under which it will be performed, Rocky gets her out of there. Rocky then asks Angie to marry him but she seems uninterested. Angie instead turns to a lovelorn suitor, Anthony, as a solution to her situation. Rocky continues to try and see her however and it soon becomes apparent that she also has another plan.

kathy's rating:

6.3

6.4

The Hunter (1980)

Director: Buzz Kulik
Starring: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold and LeVar Burton

The story of real-life professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.

kathy's rating:

6.6

6.7

Le Mans

Director: Lee H. Katzin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt and Luc Merenda

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 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.

kathy's rating:

7.7

6.8

Tom Horn

Director: William Wiard
Producers: Fred Weintraub and Steve McQueen
Starring: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens and Geoffrey Lewis

A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the Old West.

kathy's rating:

379

6.4

The Blob (1958)

Director: Irvin Yeaworth
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Stephen Chase and Olin Howland

An alien life-form consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

kathy's rating:

427

6.6

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Directors: John Guillermin and Irwin Allen
Starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Robert Wagner, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Susan Blakely, O.J. Simpson and Susan Flannery

At the opening night party of a collosal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

kathy's rating:

7.2

6.9

Hell Is for Heroes

Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Nick Adams and Bob Newhart

In autumn 1944 a small squad of U.S. soldiers along the Siegfried Line must hold off an entire German company for 48 hours until reinforcements reach them.

kathy's rating:

6.9

6.7

Junior Bonner

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker, Barbara Leigh, Bill McKinney and Dub Taylor

Junior "JR" Bonner is a slightly over the hill rodeo rider who returns home to Prescott, Arizona for the Independence Day parade and rodeo, and to reunite with his brother and estranged parents.

kathy's rating:

6.9

5.9

Never So Few (1959)

Director: John Sturges
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Steve McQueen, Paul Henreid, Richard Johnson, Peter Lawford, Charles Bronson, Dean Jones and Brian Donlevy

Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is more gruelling than Reynolds had expected. Some respite is found in the arms of beautiful Carla but, after Chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, Reynolds abandons all notions of "military protocol" and seeks vengeance.

kathy's rating:

8.5

5.4

Never Love a Stranger

Director: Robert Stevens
Based on the Harold Robbins novel 'Never Love A Stranger'
Starring: John Drew Barrymore, Lita Milan, Robert Bray, Steve McQueen and R.G. Armstrong

Following the life of an orphan from New York's Hell's Kitchen and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.

kathy's rating: