Up Next in ’70s Car Movies

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  Duel

  Duel

  Directed by Steven Spielberg • 1971 • United States
  Starring Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone

  In Steven Spielberg’s legendary feature debut, an insane trucker pursues an innocent motorist (Dennis Weaver) along a barren stretch of desert highway. And that’s . . . pretty much it. B...

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  Trafic

  Trafic

  Directed by Jacques Tati • 1971 • France
  Starring Jacques Tati

  In Jacques Tati’s TRAFIC, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, kitted out as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s di...

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  Le Mans

  Le Mans

  Directed by Lee H. Katzin • 1971 • United States
  Starring Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen

  Steve McQueen is in the driver’s seat in this pure adrenaline rush of speed cinema, which may just be the most authentic car-racing film ever made. Filmed on location in the French countryside...