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| Steve McQueen looking cool on the poster for Peter Yates' Bullitt |
QUICK REVIEW:
When the mob witness, who Frank Bullitt is assigned to protect, gets killed, Bullitt is pressured from above. But soon he finds out that the witness wasn't who he appeared to be.
Bullitt is a subtle cop thriller/car movie, mostly because Steve McQueen (The Great Escape (1963)) says very little in the title role.
Argentinian Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible (1996)) has made a characteristic, jazzy score, and the film has a car chase scene through San Francisco that is deservedly remembered and hailed as one of the best (and first long, city-spanning car chase scenes) in film history. Bullitt is chased and then chases the bad guys around in his '68 Ford Mustang GT.
Steve McQueen burns tires as Frank Bullitt in Peter Yates' Bullitt
There's lots of the cinematic Bay area in the film, which ends in the San Francisco Airport.
Some scenes of Bullitt appear almost hypnotizing, being so downplayed, - perhaps because the director is English Peter Yates (Suspect (1987)), - but for my money, I think the film was topped by Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel with the very similar Dirty Harry (1971) just three years later, which feels a lot more like an American movie to me.
Bullitt was a big hit in '68 and won an Oscar for Best Editing.
Watch the original trailer here
Budget: 5.5 mil. $
Box office; 43.3 mil. $
= Huge hit and 5th highest grossing film of '68
What do you think of Bullitt?
What other movies have car chases that stand comparison to Bullitt's?
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