BULLITT

Bullitt Steve McQueen trailer (1968) solar
Bullitt is a 1968 action crime mystery thriller film starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset, with Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Pat Renella, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Norman Fell and Brandy Carroll. It was distributed by Warner Bros.

The director was Peter Yates. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel titled Mute Witness (1963) by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike). Lalo Schifrin wrote the original music score, a memorable mix of jazz, brass and percussion.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and was nominated for Best Sound. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

Bullitt is most-remembered for its central car chase scene through the streets of downtown San Francisco, one of the earliest and most influential car chase sequences in movies. The scene had Bullitt in a dark "Highland Green" 1968 Ford Mustang G.T.390 Fastback, chasing two hit-men in a "Tuxedo Black" 1968 Dodge Charger R/T Hemi. (In honor of the Mustang in the film, the Ford Motor Company produced a limited edition 2001 Ford Mustang GT "Bullitt Mustang," which took styling cues from the '68 movie car and even mimicked its exhaust note).

The movie is also considered highly influential in many other ways within its genre. The use of a rebellious and borderline-insubordinate police officer as a protagonist operating despite interference from higher-ups was followed in many later movies, notably Dirty Harry and The French Connection, both released in 1971 . The idea of making the officer young and cool, and equipped with a sports car, was subsequently used by Starsky and Hutch and Miami Vice.

The movie as a whole, including the car chase, makes extensive use of the San Francisco Bay Area. However, San Francisco's most famous landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge, was not a part of the chase scene because the city's film commission refused to allow the filmakers to close the bridge and film there.

Directed by Peter Yates
Produced by Philip D'Antoni
Robert E. Relyea
Written by Novel:
Robert L. Fish
Screenplay:
Alan Trustman
Harry Kleiner
Starring Steve McQueen
Robert Vaughn
Jacqueline Bisset
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography William A. Fraker
Editing by Frank P. Keller
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) Flag of United States October 17, 1968
Running time 113 min
Country Flag of United States United States
Language English
Budget
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[scotpens]

The hell with the cars -- I'll take a young Jackie Bisset!

[giles422]

you got dat right

[Glamagal20091]

'Frank, you're living in a sewer'.

There's a few of them around here.

[fattony252]

When the chase stats the Mustang is dented on rear passenger side

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[smplusjb]

young OR old - she's always a babe. hottest woman alive....hell she's the hottest woman of all time!

[ZeropointZero70]

Not far from Hollywood and it has the craziest street patterns. Looks like the whole town just descends into the ocean.

[whitinoheat]

why the hell is every old school cop movie set in san francisco

[scotpens]

"Charlie Chan at the Opera," starring Warner Oland as the Chinese detective and Boris Karloff as the villain, showed a fax machine being used by police to transmit a photo of a suspect via long-distance phone lines. That movie was made in 1936. And AP Wirephotos, a form of fax, began appearing in newspapers a year earlier.

[AvengerXV1]

She looks absolutely stunning here.

[madmath]

FAXes (not called that way back when) were almost a century old by then; the basic process predated telephones and the original patent predated telegraphs.

[ceedcorp]

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