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Promoted: The untold stories of McQueen’s Le Mans

Steve McQueen's 'Le Mans' film is revered by motorsport fans in the modern day. But as a special documentary reveals, it was a troubled time on and off set for the Hollywood superstar

The whereabouts of the original reels of film for Steve McQueen's 'Le Mans' epic had been unknown for so long that it was no longer a case of trying to find out where they were being stored, the bigger question was if they still existed at all.

Rumours fluctuated between the supposed "million feet of film" finding its way to various continents, or perhaps even being destroyed by order of McQueen himself after the picture was released in 1971.

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