Product Description

This widely acclaimed biography chronicles the life and times of a man whose power both on- and off-camera is legendary. Drawing from extensive interviews with those who knew and worked with the actor, Marshall Terrill relates McQueen s delinquent childhood, his success in films like The Great Escape and Bullitt, his harrowing last days in a Mexican hospital, and more. New and old fans alike will feel they have met this small-town rebel who kept millions spellbound.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108923 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Film Review
'Certainly among the best autobiographies written about the late superstar' Film Review

Empire
'Definitive biog of the blue-eyed hell-raising heart-throb.' Empire

Customer Reviews

A huge disappointment
I found this book to be an intrusive betrayal of Steve McQueen's last years. I wonder why Barbara Minty published photographs of McQueen off duty, when she admits that he was intensely private? Allegedly, they had agreed to produce a book together, with his writing and her photographs, but this book seems to be more about Barbara's need to validate her 3 year relationship with him. The photographs are like amateur snapshots and I felt upset to see the great Steve McQueen diminished in a tacky coffee table book.

Excellent biography of a superstar rebel
I have read this biography through summer and I have to admit that it is an excellent and very well documented account of McQueen's life, the only annoying is that the author finds it necessary to underline that in every picture that McQueen starred was better than his costarrs and that is the reason that other actors avoided acting in the same films with him.
I disagree, as Newman was as good as McQueen was in Tower Inferno, and Huffman even better in Pappillon.
It seems that McQueen adopted a childish behaviour that helped him advance his ego and not his carreer. His drugs, cars and women lifestyle as it is described by the author made McQueen in my eyes seem like a lost boy...And maybe that is the best description for him.
You will enjoy this biography.

Outstanding and Enthralling Read
Whether you are a Steve Mcqueen fan or not this book is worth the read. From his childhood to fame and ultimate death this book was suprisingly an emotional rollercoaster from the first few pages and does not gloss over Mcqueens volatile dark side but you finish the book feeling empathy towards the ultimately untimely demise of such a wonderful actor.