Bullitt Car Chase

[will4ward]

nothing like the sound of tuned 60's V-8 engines!

[spotonmartin]

I met Steve Mcqueen and had lunch with him at the Triumph Motorcycle factory in Meriden in 1964 when he picked up his ISDT bike ---along with Bud Eakins and Dan Blocker--- my favourite film clip ever ---thanks for the great quality --- anyone who wants to contact me about the meet feel free martin-green7@sky.com

[nakohead415]

Filmed in my hometown, San Francisco. It's funny how they're at one part of the city, they turn the corner and all of sudden they're in the other side of town! lol

[use2slam2]

i love it when on the highway you can hear the stang revving like shit to try and keep up with the big block thats not even working hard-just purring.

[calibreeze007]

Absolute classic in every sense of the word! Great soundtrack, stunts, performances and score.

[elituko]

Thanks for posting this. I loved it when I was a kid when it came out, and that hasn't changed. I was a Mopar fan and my best friend was a Ford man, just imagine. Now at 50 I'm a Ford man go figure. Love that FE sound!

[STP43FAN1]

Do you have the follow-up scene where Simon Oakland and Norman Fell blow up at McQueen?

[sirtinycreep]

Ha, sounds like Batman music...

[timickan]

@sirtinycreep Lilo Schifrin.....quite a famous soundrack. He hated it at the time, so he burnt it. But in 2007, he re-recorded it.

[sirtinycreep]

@timickan Then maybe he thought it had shades of 1960s Batman too. LOL. Thanks for the reply.

[maxzybit]

best scene ever

[shorttime100]

"Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry"......A bad azz Charger

[sam78442]

@shorttime100 a men 2 that best car in the world!!!

[rmorroccoli1]

I’ve watched this chase numerous times and it never loses the power to keep you entranced. The viewer feels as though he or she is in each car as they bounce on San Francisco’s steep hills and flat corners. I remember seeing it the first time in the theater in Jersey City. It blew us away, and it still does!!

Ron………. “Snowman II”…….10/10 on the side

[MatysNoha]

Worship !

[Scharfschutzen1]

Charger breathing thru factory pipes and stock Hemi mufflers, no dubbing here. Mustang with glass packs and headers, really wound not stay with the big 440 Mopar.

[S3l3ct1ve]

@Scharfschutzen1 well the power doesnt mean that much, we seen how more balanced mustang is in city scenes, with all those jumps etc.

also i think they wanted to lure the mustand driver out of the city, to kill him where no one could see them.. i think they though of win win situation, if they run away, they its win for them, if they shoot him its win for them..

[microminiskirt]

the Dodge Charger is a much faster car than the Stang

[soulshadow7669]

Classic!! Pure Classic!!! This is the Granddaddy of car chases!!

[cisco760ca]

i nutted so hard watching this



[JesseDaMachineGunn]

This was one of the worlds greatest car chases ever on film I wouldent be supris

Ed if it inspired other movies to have car

Chase films like the seven ups was based

On buillitt and bill or phill hickman was

Also the driver in the seven ups but Roy

Schidner dident make it real big till jaws

[chueffer]

Steve McQeen was also the cycle rider in the chase who slid on his ass.

[orlycow]

lolcantturn

[JuanMacready]

Bullitt is just a slow, dated and boring film with rent boy McQueen, and there have been many far better car chases like in The French Connection.

[thyrariel]

some of those cars almost gave me a boner

[fionamit]

I love the fact that there is no dialogue or music just one long awesome car chase.

[Ryoku75]

Who knew that something easy to watch with no added sugar would work so well?

[PBritain6]

Sankdoggy is correct, the sound of the Mustang is actually a Porsche 908 that McQueen drove at various races including Sebring. You can tell because at certain times the sound doesn't line up with what is actually going on. Also check out the sound it makes when he double clutches. The Mustang didn't sound "mean" enough according to McQueen.

[TroyConvers5000]

@PBritain6 No, the soundtrack is from the Mustang; I think a 390ci, 325bhp Ford Galaxie V8 is pretty mean enough! the sound doesn't tally up because the whole scene is riddled with continuity errors, a fact that Peter Yates (the director) admitted to years ago.

As for the double de-clutch sound; an engine would 'blip' twice as the clutch is depressed twice in the action of changing from one gear to another, the idea being to match 'box speed for the gear you wish to select to engine speed.

[elesdos]

I guess I should have known that, but I didn't. Thanks for info..........

[elesdos]

Steve McQueen "THE LEGEND" Bill Hickman "THE MAN" 3:30 all Hell breaks loose........ Thanks for posting !

[landart67]

@elesdos Bill Hickman also was the stunt driver for the "French Connection" Car vs Elevated train sene. He was a madman!

[Westbound70]

why didn`t the mustang have a traction-lok rear end, a 390 gt car ? 4:29

[phonegalfitness]

i luv McQueen's trademark of maintaining a Zen masters composure in the midst of high drama - awsm!!

[DJM442]

@ 3:25 buckle up for safety!

[castlecutz]

Sure the cars are great the engine sound is really the greatest of any film but just listen to Lalo's sound track aswell "Shiffin' Gears" Superb

[steffen19k]

Its just too bad Buick Grand Nationals weren't around when this movie was made, although watching a 440 Hemi try to get away from the 455 Stage 1 would've been interesting.

[microminiskirt]

How about a 71 455 HO Trans-AM?

[DJM442]

@microminiskirt or a '70 442 W-30(455), or even a '70 Buick GS-X (455). either way, this is still one of THE best, if not THE best car chase ever. these 2 cars are so iconic, it's hard not to love 'em!

[bro70]

440 hemi?

[steffen19k]

I get excited, and proceed to forget that there is no such beast 440 hemi.

[funkyman927]

sankdoggy is wrong, the engine soudtrack is genuine. McQueen did all his own driving. He and Bill Hickman in the 68 Charger RT did a lot of practicing at high speeds at a nearby track

[sankdoggy]

lol @ anubis and his blind ignorance. You realise that that sound isn't the engine from the Mustang? Its just a dubbed sound from a racing car on a track

[needcafeen247]

hey sankdoggy ......watch who you call ignorant dude, because you happen to be dead wrong about the sound of the cars engines! This was not only the first movie to show a car chase at real speed, but also was the first to feature real sound! The only sound that was dubbed in later, was tire sqealing, that hadn't been picked up by the microphones during the chase. The stuntman from the movie simply did some high speed turns to get the screeching tires recorded! The engine sounds were all real!

[PBritain6]

@needcafeen247 actually sankdoggy is correct, the sound is from McQueen's Porsche 908 Le Mans car.

[rob4disco]

Type in "arvinode" and you'll hear what a K code 289 sounds like at full tilt. You may be right on the soundtrack, but the arvinode sounds close.  Enjoy.

[calitolao]

mustang is good but that challenger its amazing ,,beatifull car

[anubisammon]

This is how I came to love Mustangs and have ever since only car I will drive is a pony car. Listen that engine now that's American muscle!!

[anubisammon]

The best damn car chase in Hollywood history even remaking this movie will never do this chase justice.

[UCICamaroFan]

I want to build one of these in the next year or two. My father and I are going to use a Dynacorn body.

[mfreeman7821]

2:15, best part.

[gdwriter]

The absolute gold standard of car chases. 40 years later, nobody, not even Ronin, has matched it. The setup, the way the suspense builds with the cat and mouse and Lalo Schifrin's cool jazz soundtrack couldn't be better. I love seeing McQueen's Mustang appear in the Charger's rear view mirror, and Bill Hickman's shocked reaction is priceless. Best stunt driver ever (he also drove the Grand Ville in The Seven-Ups). Only downer is the Charger being destroyed. Best looking, most bad-ass Mopar ever.

[nroles87]

I'll second those quotes. Bad-ass black mopar's rock and that sound of the muzzy, whoo mama!

[willeooi]

it was a challenger, not a charger.

[gdwriter]

Clearly, you don't know your Mopars. One, the Challenger didn't come out until 1970. Bullitt was made in 1968. Two, at 9:43, when the passenger rolls down the window to get out his shotgun, the Charger script is clearly visible on the sail panel.

[z4crad]

IT IS A CHARGER if you want to see the challenger on its best, see the movie Vanishing Point is amazing!

[sneezersneezer]

Oh My God, you are my kind of people! Your analysis is beyond reproach. And, by even brining up the movie Ronin, of which you are surely a fan (and justifyably so!), you clearly and absolutely - rock and rule. (Sorry, actually, about the vernacular, I had a couple too many. But with regards to the sentiment, OF THAT, I will NOT apologize!)

[HelmutHedd]

@gdwriter - According to some involved in the filming, the 'stang had to get some work done to keep up.

[fanof3lisa]

What about Steve McQueen????  He drived better than Hickman!

[gdwriter]

Not really. McQueen only did some of the stunt driving and not on the famous jumps. After he overshot the corner where the Charger hits the camera, the director said "Get him outta the car!" But the shot looked so good it stayed in the movie. Hickman did all the driving for the Charger, and his work in The Seven-Ups is equally stellar.

[pedrojak7]

Got to agree. Bill Hickman, a legend!

[agentseventyseven]

Bill Hickman Rules

[NAVYMU1RET]

NICE BASS TROMBONE WORK @ 2:32.

[wheeler8801]

I love the part at the beginning when the mustang pops up in the mirror at 2:16

[fanof3lisa]

That is my favorite part too!

[gdwriter]

Legend has it that was Steve McQueen's idea. It's brilliant, and I love Bill Hickman's reaction: "Oh, sh*t!"

[daytona1073]

where's my comment??

[billthestinker]

the bad guys are quite gay and nasty

[LJBCRT]

Still The Best Car Chase Sequence in the History of Motion Pictures.

If they redid it today, it would be an overdone, digitized mess.

[Ryoku75]

Not to mention they'd use a new Mustang and new Charger which both would loose fiberglass panels left and right after landing from those jumps by the bug. I can easily see a version of this in a remake with a shakey camera so you can't even see the chase, cars flipping and blowing up like molotov cocktails, and obnoxious techno music and rock, and lots of useless one liners like "You like that dog? uh?".

[givebeesachance]

@LJBCRT

THE ROAD WARRIOR

[nuaragirl1]

LONG LIVE BILL HICKMAN

[monaco74]

Hickman was the man!

[sneezersneezer]

Oh man! This is the coolest. Steve McQueen doing his own driving, the best cars possible, killer killers! And the music swings. (I do wish I saw less of the VW bug though!)

[halffliffe]

it becasue they used the same shot 4 times,they filmed the two cars chasing each other and one camera was in the charger, one in the mustang, one where they turn the corner almost hit the cadilac, and on on the hill, when the 2 cars jumped past the the green vw bug, they only went down the hill once and filmed it 4 times. If they didnt use the bug, it woulldnt of been so obvious ,but they got great footage and it was vey cost effective since they could only block the streets for so long.

[lazyboy2004]

whats the name of the song at the start of the clip?

[tubi333]

It's "Shifting Gears". At the start of the video "Bullitt opening title sequence" from jtkeroac there's a description of this sequence.

[shumble69]

chill out tubi it was not a dig just a general statement about the film,you wanna relax a bit mate lol.

[tubi333]

OK it was just one day before that guy asked the question that I had seen this film again, so I had all details fresh in mind and it all kept pouring out... :) peace.

[blackmountainboar]

after 41 years and still a thrilling 'cat and mouse' car chase

very hip soundtrack as well

[shumble69]

Who cares about all the whys and whats of this scene,mc queen was one cool fucker and no matter what still a classic car chase

[tubi333]

If you don't care, don't read.

[Einstiensblackid]

Why's Steve double clutching the up shifts?

[asbochamp]

How many times did they pass that green VW?

[tubi333]

Four times. This error was spoofed in an episode of Futurama in a car chase with lots of green VWs. They also spoofed that one car lost more than four hupcaps. You can find this info and more on Wikipedia.

[Camnun]

Iam a big McQueen fan and I just love both cars and all BUT unfortunatly the hole cene doesn´t make much sense to mee ... what was the cop (Bullit) aiming to do chasing then in such a way ? Was he thinking about stoping them and what ? Or was he trying to hit them out of the street since the bigining ? Specially after he saw the shotgun he kept putting his car aside for wath ?

Unfortunatly I love the cene but just cant help thinking it ...

Sugestions ?

[tubi333]

Well, at the beginning it wasn't Bullitt who was the chaser. The mafia types were after him. You may ask why? I have three suggestions: 1. They didn't know yet that Bullitt had taken the principal witness out of hospital to hide him from the mafia. They just wanted to intimidate him with the car chase so that he wouldn't defeat anymore their murder attacks as before.

2. They suspected that he was responsible for the hiding of the principal witness and wanted to kill him. ...

[tubi333]

... They hoped that after Bullitt's death the principal witness would again be transferred to the hospital where they could kill him.

3. The mafia had informants in the police department and thus they knew that Bullitt was after them on a hot trace.

But why Bullitt turned from the chased one to the chaser? He knew that it had to be the mafia who was after him and probably wanted to kill him. So it wouldn't be enough to shake them off - they would be after him again. ...

[tubi333]

... Maybe he didn't want to kill them but just follow them to their refuge. Because he was more skilled in driving than the mafia types it was an easy thing for him to become the chaser. The mafia driver noticed that and got nervous. He knew that Bullitt would either follow him home or kill him. Then comes the scene with the shooting. It was then, if not before, that Bullitt saw the guy with the rifle and knew that it was the one who shot at his police fellow and at the principal witness. ...

[tubi333]

... (the latter one died from this but the mafia didn't know yet). His fellow and the janitor had earlier described the murder and his rifle. At this moment Bullitt maybe accepted to cause a crash because he knew they were the murderers and would try again to kill him. That's why he stayed aside and provoked the final crash.

[tubi333]

I'd like to add a 4th version to my suggestions why the mafiosi followed Bullitt: initially they neither wanted to kill or intimidate him, but just find out where he had hidden the principal witness.

[mixxmexx]

he was flushing them out

[Carlwalski]

Awesome chase scene, one of the best. Vanishing Point, Bullitt, a blonde and some beers = a petrol heads perfect night in.

[ragemanchoo82]

FINALLY... a complete upload. Almost all the clips of this don't include the opening part where McQueen notices the Charger right after he gets in his car.

[Ochenter]

You're right, I'm agree. He was amazing in that scene , so nice.

I love this scene, this movie....excelent and the best car chase ever made on cinema. !!