Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses.
Frank Bullitt, a police detective who works for the San Francisco Police Department, is assigned to protect a witness for 40 hours, issued by the ambitious politician, Walter Chambers. Before the night is over,two hit men break into the witness's room and kills him and wounded a police officer. Knowing this, Bullitt gather up information about the incident and opens up a investigation on his own after his police captain gives him the permission to investigate the crime. When Bullitt opens up the investigation, people around start to ponder about his behavior and his antics on pursuing those who are responsible of the crime.
Frank Bullitt's the type of guy you want in your corner; the kind of cop that breaks the rules to do what's right (and also tell creep political players where to stick it).
And Steve McQueen's just the guy to play him, bringing his man's man persona to the screen with steely eye and stalking gait. "Bullitt" pits him against the mob in this stylish cops 'n' robbers thriller, which isn't short on shootouts and hard-boiled action. Not to mention the car chase, which is a benchmark, as chase scenes go (and that olive green Mustang Gt is one boss ride). To top it off, this flick is backed by Lalo Schifrin's über-'60s jazz score.
Very cool.
7/10
Bullitt is a 1968 action mystery film directed by Peter Yates and staring Steve McQueen. Recognized as a pioneering film in cinema, Bullitt is credited as the one of the first films to ever feature a real high speed car chase. Previous films, although having featured high speed chases, used film techniques to speed up the film.
The story was taken from a novel by Robert L. Pike, titled Mute Witness and adapted to screenplay. Most memorable to the movie is the high speed car chase that occurs through downtown San Fransisco. Originally Yates had hoped to film this at least in part on the Goldengate Bridge, however they were unable to due to financial reasons and safety concerns from city officials.
The story centers around character Frank Bullitt played by Steve McQueen. McQueen, an expert in motorcycles and cars did most of the high speed film sequences himself. Frank is lieutenant and detective who has been assigned to look after a key witness named Johnny Ross. The character Walter Chalmers, a politician, is played by Robert Vaughn. Chalmers who is often at odds with Bullitt throughout the movie has asked that McQueen look after the witness who is needed for a Senate subcommittee hearing that supposedly has to do with the Mafia in Chicago. Ross apparently stole a large sum of money from the mafia and since then they've been out to kill him.
McQueen has a team of officers set up to guard Ross day and night. Despite this, Ross for some reason unlocks the door to the hotel room in which he is being kept. This allows two hit men to come in and shoot Detective Stanton and Ross. Ross' unlocking of the door seems to imply that he had some sort of deal with the mafia, but that they backed out on it.
Determined to catch the shooters, McQueen hides the death of Johnny Ross from Chalmers who threatens to pin the blame of the two deaths on him. McQueen then tracks the killers down and after being involved in the high speed car-chase, the two shooters die. McQueen who then begins to investigate another murder recognizes a tie between Ross and this new murder. The person who was supposedly Ross turns out to have been a man named Albert Renick, his wife Dorothy is the victim found in the other hotel room following the shooting. The real Johnny Ross had apparently paid Renick to impersonate him so that he could sneak out of the country on a flight to Rome. All of this McQueen discovers when looking through the luggage of Dorothy Renick.
The movie ends with Bullitt delaying Ross' flight to Rome. Getting aboard the plane, Bullitt chases Ross through the plane. Ross exits out of an emergency exit and the chase ensues through the landing field. Ross makes his way back into the airport in hopes of losing Bullitt in the crowd. Ross however is spotted, shots are fired, and Ross is killed.
From the perspective of a younger generation the movie was not very entertaining. The plot was slightly difficult to follow and the sound quality of the movie was not superb, which made it difficult to understand what was being said at times. The car chase was definitely the best part of the film, however compared to modern action movies, it was very low tech. By watching the film it is easy to see the progress that has been made in cinematography over the past few decades.
I felt the film was lacking in dialogue and dramatic acting, however for its time it was considered to have great acting and a good musical score. The bar scene with the jazz band was perhaps the best sampling of music throughout the film. The best acting that occurred seemed to have been between Jacqueline Bissett and McQueen when she comments that Bullitt is "living in a sewer". Overall I couldn't relate to the movie or really into it.
Blessed with the fresh eyes of newly landed Englishman Yates (and genius cameraman William Fraker), the movie makes San Francisco fresh and alive, but also completely remakes and modernises the bleak, sleazy gangster demimonde in which Bullitt does his hunting.
Lieutenant Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), Sergeant Delgetti (Don Gordon), and Detective Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel) of the San Francisco Police Department are charged by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) (who is holding a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime in two days) with guarding Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), the key witness against Johnny's mobster brother Pete Ross (Vic Tayback). When Johnny's hotel room is broken into and both he and Stanton are shot, Chalmers seems more interested in placing blame on Bullitt's negligence. When Johnny later dies, Bullitt (with the help of Johnny's doctor) decides to hide his body in an attempt to find out who murdered him. Bullitt is based on Mute Witness (1963) by American writer Robert L. Fish [1912-1981]. The novel was adapted for the film by screenwriters Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner. "A Song for Cathy" composed by Lalo Schifrin. Yes. It's at the corner of Taylor and Clay Streets in the Nob Hill section of San Francisco. The building where Bullitt lives is right across Clay St at the same intersection. Also, the address given for the Daniels Hotel and the phone number of Coffee Cantata are real places, too. Bullitt contrived to keep his death secret because he feared Chalmers, who had no interest in finding the killers, would, through his obvious influence with SFPD brass, have any investigation quashed. Chalmers' only interest was in the publicity from the Senate hearings which, with his key witness dead, would either not occur or be only negative. Granted, all the hotel clerk said is "Sunshine Cab". Bullitt then left the hotel and immediately found the cab driver (Robert Duvall) at the Car Wash. Viewers who have noted this "plot hole" explain it in two ways; (1) Delgetti or Bullitt phoned or went (offscreen) to the cab company to check their records, or (2) the cab driver was assigned to that area and was known to Bullitt. From phone records. The cab driver informs Bullitt that Ross made two calls from a certain phone booth, the second one being long distance (as "He put in a lot of change"). From phone records, Bullitt learns that Ross called Dorothy Simmons person-to-person at the Thunderbolt Motel in San Mateo nine hours before Ross was murdered. In her luggage, Bullitt finds thousands of dollars in traveler's checks issued to Albert Renick and Dorothy Renick as well as travel brochures to Rome, Italy, but no airplane tickets or passports. It's at this point that Bullitt starts putting together the pieces of the puzzle. The chase began because the hitmen had been following Bullitt in hopes that he would lead them to Johnny Ross so that they could finish the job. However, during the first part of the chase, when they're driving at normal city speeds, Bullitt tricks them into passing him in order to see their faces. Now that Bullitt can identify at least one of them, they may have decided to kill him, but when Bullitt outmaneuvered them, they were simply trying to get away. Actually, the car chase was out of sequence moving in seconds from one end of the city to another. Places they pass in the chase include Russian Hill, Bernal Heights, Marina Blvd near Crissy Fields, Potero Hill. John McLaren Park, and ends on Highway 1. It's said that they wanted to perform the chase across the Golden Gate Bridge but couldn't get permission. For two reasons: (1) to kill Dorothy Renick, and (2) to retrieve the passports and airline tickets so that he could get out of the country under a false identity. When he finds the traveler's checks in Dorothy's luggage, Bullitt requests a copy of their passport applications from the Immigration Department in Chicago. At Ross' autopsy, it's noted by the coroner that Ross has multiple surgical scars to his face. When the passport photos come through, Bullitt realizes that the man Chalmers sent him to guard, the man who was shot in the hotel room, was actually used car salesman Albert Renick, surgically altered to look like Johnny Ross, and he concludes that Renick was set up by Ross to take the fall. Unconfirmed Pan American airline tickets to Rome in the Renicks' names are located at the San Francisco airport, so Bullitt and Delgetti go in search of Ross, standing near the gate, waiting for him to board the flight, but Ross doesn't show. On a hunch, Bullitt phones Passenger Service to see whether Renick might have changed his tickets and learns that he was just reassigned to a departing flight to London. Bullitt calls Flight Control and requests that the flight return to the gate. He and Delgetti rush to that gate, and Bullitt boards the flight while the passengers are being made to debark and wait in the departure lounge. He spots Ross at the back of the plane. Knowing that he's been caught, Ross dashes for a tail exit, jumps off the plane, and leads Bullitt on a foot chase over the tarmac. Ross pulls out a gun and shoots at Bullitt then runs back into the terminal where he is eventually caught between two glass doors and shot by Bullitt. Chalmers, who has been waiting at the airport to take custody of his key witness, sees the shooting go down. Bullitt returns to his apartment to find Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset) asleep. He puts down his gun and washes his hands. Up until 1967, aircraft hijackings were still relatively rare, having averaged only one per year since 1958. A passenger could board a flight carrying a gun, and nobody would be any the wiser (incomprehensible today). So, it was still easy to bring a weapon onto an airplane when this movie was filmed in 1968. It wasn't until 5 January, 1973, that the Federal Aviation Administration started requiring airports screen passengers and carry-on baggage for obvious weapons and explosives. Viewers who have liked the chase scene in Bullitt recommend starting with Robbery (1967) (1967), a dramatization of the Great Train Robbery and directed by Peter Yates, who also directed Bullitt. Following Bullitt, the number of movies with good chase scenes proliferated. Some of the recommended ones include: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) (1970), The French Connection (1971) (1971), Vanishing Point (1971) (1971), Shaft's Big Score! (1972) (1972), What's Up, Doc? (1972) (1972), which spoofs the chase from Bullitt, Cleopatra Jones (1973) (1973), Live and Let Die (1973) (1973), where the chase takes place in boats, The Seven-Ups (1973) (1973), which reuses the Bullitt soundtrack during a similar chase scene, Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) (1974), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) (1974), Truck Turner (1974) (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (1977), and The Driver (1978) (1978). Because Johnny isn't really Johnny Ross. He is a look-alike named Albert Renick. The plan was that Johnny Ross would disappear and not have to testify at the senatorial committee, so he believes that the caller is there to help him to escape and then disappear. He is surprised when the gunman shoots Stanton and then turns the gun on him. a5c7b9f00b
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