Titles Comprise: Le Mans: Forty-five international racing stars join Steve McQueen in this gritty nerve-shattering recreation of the toughest car race on earth - Le Mans. Returning to France to compete a year after he's been injured an American driver (McQueen) finds himself drawn to the widow of a racer who was killed in the same accident. Filmed on location in France the film's spellbinding cinematography provides a dazzling look at the world's most extraordinary cars and the unique personalities of the people drawn to the race car circuit. Steve McQueen himself... a championship racer did most of his own driving on the harrowing 8.5-mile Le Mans course - often at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour. The Italian Job: Charlie Croker is out of jail and on the make with an ingenious plan for the heist of the century. Aided and abetted by top criminal mastermind Mr. Bridger Charlie sets off with an ace team of villains and three very special minis to lift $4 000 000 from under the noses of the Turin Polizi. The trouble is with the cops and the Mafia on his tail Charlie finds that grabbing the money is kid's stuff compared to getting away with it... This action packed comedy drama is an all time cult classic of the 60's with the craziest car chase in movie history and an incredible cliff hanger finale The Italian Job is the caper movie to beat them all! [show more]
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Double bill of car-themed classics. Steve McQueen stars in 'Le Mans' (1971) as a racing driver who forces himself to return to the scene of a previous accident. Having been seriously injured in the Le Mans race the previous year, Michael Delaney (McQueen) starts a tentative relationship with the widow of another driver killed in that same accident, while forcing himself to compete one last time. McQueen performed all of his own driving on the genuine Le Mans course in France and recruited a further 45 international racing drivers for the film. In 'The Italian Job' (1969), newly released from jail petty criminal Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) inherits a carefully planned $4,000,000 gold robbery in Italy. With the original mastermind of the plan murdered, Croker needs financial backing and finds it in Mr Bridger (Noel Coward in his last screen role), a quintessential English crime boss still incarcerated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Bridger supplies Charlie with his own gang of bank robbers, getaway drivers and computer whizz-kids, and helps him plan the heist (during the practice runs Caine utters the infamous phrase 'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'), which results in the world's biggest traffic jam. The gang's getaway in red, white and blue minis is accompanied by the tune 'Getta Bloomin Move On' (aka 'Self Preservation Society') written by Quincy Jones and George Martin.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. This action packed DVD combo pairs two full throttle classic feature films, THE ITALIAN JOB and LE MANS.
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