Steve McQueen

[steveno]

it is a Steve McQueen movie afternoon on TCM

The Sand Pebbles (just finished)
The Getaway (just starting)
Bullitt
The Cincinnati Kid
The Thomas crown Affair
The Great Escape

all very good movies

 

[Rustyt1953]

Home runs, all.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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[rockquarry]

I've always thought the The Thomas Crown Affair was a lesser movie than many Steve McQueen films, but it's certainly worth watching once if you haven't seen it. It doesn't really compare with the other movies listed in the first post.

 

[REM 3200]

Steve McQueen = Mr. Cool.

 

[steveno]

Steve McQueen's version of the Thomas Crown Affair is many times better than the remake with Brosnan

 

[wheelgun28]

I caught the last half of Papillon the other night.

Great movies!

H&I TV channel has Wanted Dead or Alive on weekday mornings.

 

[Onomea]

I've always thought the The Thomas Crown Affair was a lesser movie than many Steve McQueen films, but it's certainly worth watching once if you haven't seen it. It doesn't really compare with the other movies listed in the first post.

I think I agree, but watching him get distracted — hey, what red blooded male would not?! —playing chess with Faye Dunaway is fun!

 

[6518John]

I will admit I have lusted in my heart for:

https://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/2020/models/bullitt/

 

[tlawler]

The King of Cool!
Just about my all time favorite actor. And The Sand Pebbles is one of my favorite movies! Missed it, but I’ve got it on DVD. I think I’ll watch it tonight.

I always wanted to be an MM1 like Jake Holman; well at least I made it to MM2

“Black gang don’t stand topside watches” is one of my favorite quotes from the movie.

 

[Rodan]

Most definitely the King of Cool.

 

[MajorDude]

I saw that Hulu was recording The Sand Pebbles for me. Steve and 03 Springfields? Doesn’t get much better than that! And The Cincinnati Kid coming up? The reason I drink JTS Brown!

Oops! I got that wrong. He drank JTS Brown in “The Hustler”. Another classic!

 

[JJEH]

Great actor, I'm sure he was one hell of a guy to be around...

 

[hsguy]

Try to find the movie "Soldier in the Rain". Starred Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. Not a great commercial success but I sure enjoyed it.

 

[Kinman]

I was stationed with a guy that claimed to have ridden dirt bikes with McQueen. He said that McQueen was one of the best riders he had ever seen or raced with, tough to beat. When I got my orders to Vietnam the guy gave me a number that was given to him by McQueen. The phone number was supposed to connect you with the M.A.R.S. system and allow you to call home from wherever you were, McQueen used it regularly and offered it to any of his friends or guys that were going overseas. I never used it but carried it for years...kind of like the dime stuck in the corner of my wallet, ran across that years ago and it turned out being silver, pre-64.

 

[pittpa]

I will admit I have lusted in my heart for:

https://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/2020/models/bullitt/

John my good friend bought a 2019 Bullitt in January and he said it’s the best investment he ever made. He told me that every time he gets in the car he feels like a teenager who’s about to go on a date with a girl that puts out.[emoji846]
ETA they won’t tell you that in the commercials

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[Chino74]

No one mentioned 'Nevada Smith'. That's one of my favorite McQueen films.

 

[dscampbell]

Try to find the movie "Soldier in the Rain". Starred Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. Not a great commercial success but I sure enjoyed it.

Where they always point up


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[Sistema1927]

I really enjoyed "The Getaway" for a couple of reasons. As a young teen, we had recently moved to El Paso, and, as a young teen, I thought that Ali MacGraw was HOT!

I had the opportunity to meet her a few years ago in Santa Fe, She was just as lovely as my 14 year old self remembered.

 

[Texas Star]

I liked him with Sinatra in, Never So Few.

 

[kraynky]

I just watched him in Tom Horn a few days ago. Love his movies, and I still catch Wanted: Dead or Alive every now & then.

 

[Rudi]

The Sand Pebbles is brilliant, but rarely seen and hard to find. One of my favorite actors.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I was going through the listings and saw the G E was on, and had to watch the last half of it, for the umteenth time.

You have to admith that he is a great actor and with those under his belt he had enough clout, to force MGM to pay him 2 million to do Papalon. spelling ?

 

[Kurusu]

I have enjoyed a lot of Steve's movies.

But, to me, this one is perhaps the best, and maybe the closest to his soul.

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[glenncal1]

One of the coolest movie shots of all time (caught it yesterday) at the beginning of the car chase in Bullit when the bad guys see the Mustang in their rear view mirror.

 

[rockquarry]

I'm a Steve McQueen fan, too. Just some comments on a few Steve Mcqueen films already mentioned...

"Soldier In The Rain" was a dud. I expected more of Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen as I think most people would. "Baby The Rain Must Fall", made around the same time as "Soldier" was a disappointment of the same level.

"LeMans" was made during an era of filmmaking when many bad movies were being produced. If "LeMans" was an effort to compete (and it may not have been) with James Garner's 1966 "Grand Prix", it didn't come close. I watched enough of "LeMans" to realize it wasn't going to get better.

Steve McQueen was in many excellent movies, but his "loser ratio to good films" may have been slightly higher than other top actors of his day.

 

[Kinman]

Although a good actor and cool customer, I think McQueen was put into roles just to play himself or type casting. I don't think he could "act" his way out of a paper sack, he was no Brando.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the first movie I ever saw with McQueen in it, The Blob (1958). I was seven and ate that stuff up, I remember melting black plastic down to imitate the Blob, we even added toy soldiers.

 

[kmyers]

A favorite for both here with those being great movies. The Hunter is another I quite enjoy.

 

[walkin jack]

A good actor......and a damn good dirt bike rider/racer! memtb

Check out a movie (documentary) titled On Any Sunday. It features Steve, Mertice Lawill, and Malcom Smith. If that movie don't make you want to ride something could be wrong with you.

 

[walkin jack]

Does any one remember an obscure little movie he made early on in his career with Natalie Wood? It was called Love With A Proper Stranger, I think.

They have an affair and her brother beats him up. Not a good movie but it was early in his career and made some Great movies. Pappion is my favorite but Sand Pebbles, Great Escape, Bullitt and Bounty Hunter were all great and there were others too.

He was, to the chagrin of his manager, producers and directors, a man that loved to live his life on the edge. He died way too young. Many more miles he wanted to ride.

THere was a story about the time he participated in the big race down in Baja. Over a thousand riders. At one point he fell and broke his foot, Still came in 19th or something like that.