What is the best Steve McQueen movie?

Prison camps, poker tables, rodeos and one very long car chase. Sixteen films, one very consistent squint.

1. 1
   Bullitt

   The 1968 police thriller built around a ten-minute Mustang chase through San Francisco.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Blob

   The 1958 creature feature that gave him his first leading role.
   794pts
3. 3
   The Thomas Crown Affair

   A 1968 heist picture with McQueen as a bored millionaire robbing his own city.
   681pts
4. 4
   Junior Bonner

   A quiet 1972 rodeo film, and the least typical role of his late career.
   661pts
5. 5
   Hell Is for Heroes

   A stark 1962 war film directed by Don Siegel.
   661pts
6. 6
   The Magnificent Seven

   The 1960 western that turned a supporting role into a career.
   529pts
7. 7
   Nevada Smith

   A 1966 revenge western in which he plays a young man tracking his parents' killers.
   529pts
8. 8
   Tom Horn

   A 1980 western, one of the last two films he completed.
   448pts
9. 9
   The Great Escape

   The 1963 prisoner-of-war film with the motorcycle jump McQueen is still remembered for.
   448pts
10. 10
    The Reivers

    A 1969 Faulkner adaptation, gentler than anything else on his list.
    353pts
11. 11
    The Towering Inferno

    A 1974 disaster epic that made him one of the highest-paid actors alive.
    353pts
12. 12
    The Cincinnati Kid

    A 1965 card drama in which McQueen plays a young stud-poker player chasing the best.
    353pts
13. 13
    The Sand Pebbles

    A 1966 gunboat drama that brought McQueen his only Academy Award nomination.
    241pts
14. 14
    Le Mans

    A 1971 racing film with almost no dialogue and a great deal of real footage.
    240pts
15. 15
    Papillon

    A 1973 prison drama opposite Dustin Hoffman, and McQueen's most demanding performance.
    0pts

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