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The robust 1966 Western prequel film Nevada Smith has the advantage of starring Steve McQueen in his prime, taking over Alan Ladd’s old role of Nevada Smith from the hit 1964 movie The Carpetbaggers based […]
Director Sam Peckinpah’s quiet 1972 Western masterpiece tells the beautiful, elegaic tale of a middle-aged rodeo star who finds a disturbed family clashing with property developers when he goes back to his Arizona home for […]
Director Buzz Kulik’s 1980 movie is Steve McQueen’s final film, made while he was tragically dying of lung cancer, leading to his untimely death on November 7 1980 at the age of only 50. While not perfect, it is […]
The 1979 Western film Tom Horn is notable as Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie and his final Western. It tells the tale of the last days of real-life Wyoming cavalry scout and bounty hunter Tom Horn, […]
The youngish Steve McQueen, already aged 32 after 10 years in the business, heads a powerful cast under Don Siegel’s snappy direction for this exciting, realistic 1962 World War Two war movie. It also stars […]
Director Mark Rydell’s brightly coloured 1969 vehicle for Steve McQueen is a lively and delightfully quirky turn-of-the-last-century adventure yarn based on an attractive work by novelist William Faulkner. McQueen looks as though he is enjoying […]
In 1926, the gunboat USS San Pablo is patrolling the Yangtse River during the Chinese revolution and must rescue stranded missionaries at the China Light Mission. Producer-director Robert Wise’s adventure drama about American gunboat diplomacy in […]