What are your Top Five Steve McQueen Movies?

We had enough fun (IMHO) with What are your Top Five Paul Newman Movies? that it seems worth the trouble to ask the same thing about Steve McQueen.

See Highest Rated Feature Film Actor Titles With Steve McQueen for the full list from which I selected:

Select your Top Five and post them. We’ll see what happens! :slight_smile:

My Top Five are:

  1. Bullitt (1968)
  2. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
  3. Papillon (1973)
  4. The Great Escape (1963)
  5. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape
Love with the Proper Stranger
The War Lover
Bullitt

Appropriate theme song/video for this thread: (I Just Wanna Be) Your Steve McQueen

Righteous! It made me remember I didn’t include The Getaway on my list! :frowning:

But I don’t know what I’d bump to put it there. Maybe The Magnificent Seven even though I love Stave in that!

Never So Few
Papillion
The Magnificent Seven
The Cincinnati Kid
The Great Escape

Top Two:

Bullitt

Sand Pebbles

Magnificent Seven
Great Escape
Bullitt
Le Mans
Thomas Crown Affair

  1. Junior Bonner
  2. Papillon
  3. Bullitt
  4. The Reivers
  5. Love with the Proper Stranger

The Blob!

The Great Escape

Bullit

Papillon

The Magnificent Seven

Top 6, omitting #5

Gotta love The Blob! A 27 yr old man playing a high school teen. And he wasn’t one of those exceptionally young looking 20somethings, either.

And trade Le Mans for #3

The Great Escape (1963)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Bullitt (1968)
The Getaway
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

  1. Le Mans
  2. On Any Sunday (because I’m in it and how dare anyone leave it off the list)
  3. The Getaway (because my great aunt and uncle are in it)
  4. The Blob (go Phoenixville!)
  5. The Great Escape

The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven
The Getaway
The Cincinnati Kid
The Thomas Crown Affair

I should note I haven’t seen Junior Bonner, The Reivers, or The Sand Pebbles, all of which I’ve heard good things about.

eta: Shocking to realize McQueen’s been dead for thirty-five years.

Ok kopek, I gotta ask where are you in “On Any Sunday”. I watch that movie more than I care to admit and I want to check you out next time. You’re not the guy in the beginning on the mini bike are you?:smiley:
My vote:

  1. The Magnificent Seven
  2. On Any Sunday
  3. The Great Escape
  4. Bullitt
  5. Le Mans

I wish; either him of “glasses guy” - always sort of admired both. And a late buddy is the dude who falls over with his wife on the back in one of the very first scenes. But I’m #64 in a couple of the flat-track scenes. It was my first year with the grown-ups and luckily none of my stupids were caught on film or used; never knew which was the case.

Flat-track huh? Me likee, still take in the occasional race at Lodi or Calistoga when the Big Show comes to town. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for you on my next viewing, which should be any day now.
Steve McQueen note: I had the joy of meeting him twice, once at the fabled “Rock Store” in Calabassas and once at the airport in Santa Paula (shortly before his death). He was every bit the cool dude he portrayed in so many of his movies. R.I.P. Steve, we miss ya.

Steve McQueen trivia: When McQueen was living in Malibu, his next-door neighbor was Keith Moon. As you might imagine, the two didn’t hit if off too well. Among the incidents: Steve using a shotgun on a floodlamp that Moonie had pointing at his bedroom and Keith barging into McQueen’s house and getting decked by Steve’s son Chad.

No love, or even like, for The Hunter? Sure, it’s not the greatest film in history, but it deserves a mention, partially because McQueen was dying of cancer when he made it, and also because it has several good lines:

Ralph corners a kid played by LeVar Burton:
“My name’s Ralph Thorson, my friends call me Papa. You call me Mr. Thorson.”

Later, Papa’s going to apprehend another fugitive. He gets a sandbag shooting gun out of the trunk of his car.
LeVar (I forget the character’s name): What’s that, Papa?
Papa: Stun gun.
LeVar: What’s it do?
Papa: Ruins their day.

And when Papa returns the rental Firebird and drops the keys in the attendant’s hand.

Your shoe was untied. Stands out at me every time I see that scene.