It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bullitt". Continuity mistake: Bullitt runs the Charger off the road into the gas station. Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film[3] directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni. Mute Witness. Johnny escapes a mass of gunmen outside his office, then greets Pete in the garage of their office building. versus the 390 cu. Watch Bullitt movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at TVGuide.com. Find out when and where you can watch Bullitt on tv with the full listings schedule at TVGuide.com. [36] Frank P. Keller won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and it was also nominated for Best Sound. We know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime. 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. The other hitman was played by Paul Genge, who played a character who had ridden a Dodge off the road to his death in an episode of Perry Mason ("The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise") two years earlier. Robert L. Fish. McQueen based the character of Frank Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, with whom he worked prior to filming. 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"[24] This chase scene has also been cited by critics as groundbreaking in its realism and originality. 0-670-75991-0 . The original score was composed by Lalo Schifrin and is remarkable and timeless as it tracks the various moods and the action of the film, with Schifrin's signature contemporary American jazz style (for the time). Rosenblum . Edit, Granted, all the hotel clerk said is "Sunshine Cab". 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. 1963. The building where Bullitt lives is right across Clay St at the same intersection. Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni.The picture stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. In 2000, the Society of Camera Operators awarded Bullitt its "Historical Shot" award to David M. Walsh. Cathy follows the police to the crime scene and is horrified. Bullitt was co-produced by McQueen's Solar Productions and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, the film pitched to Jack L. Warner as "doing authority differently". In the crowded passenger terminal, Ross kills a deputy sheriff before being shot dead by Bullitt. to protect a star witness in a case that he hopes will take him into politics. Who notified the 2 killers which hotel Renick/Ross was being held? Robert Duvall has a small role as a cab driver who provides information to McQueen. Edit, Actually, the car chase was out of sequence moving in seconds from one end of the city to another. Doubleday. Driver's point-of-view shots were used to give the audience a participant's feel of the chase. Bullitt returns to his apartment to find Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset) asleep. Edit. [39], The Ford Mustang name has been closely associated with the film. The next morning SFPD detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his team, Delgetti and Stanton are tasked by Senator Walter Chalmers with guarding Ross over the weekend, until he can be presented as a witness to a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime on Monday morning. Edit, 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. 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. After being served a writ of habeas corpus, Bullitt reveals that Ross has died. Before the night is over,two hit men break into the witness's room and kills him and wounded a police officer. When one officer and the witness are injured, Walter Chalmers gets angry at Bullitt. It's at the corner of Taylor and Clay Streets in the Nob Hill section of San Francisco. User Ratings (1972) (1972), What's Up, Doc? Lt. Frank Bullitt is selected by Walter Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to guard a Mafia informant. and greater horsepower (375 versus 325) - was so much faster than the Mustang that the drivers had to keep backing off the accelerator to prevent the Charger from pulling away from the Mustang.[19]. Ford also originally lent two Galaxie sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Francisco. A passenger could board a flight carrying a gun, and nobody would be any the wiser (incomprehensible today). When the hit men shoot Jonny Ross in the hotel room, why didn't they simply finish the job there and then, why did they leave the hotel room and then go to hospital where Ross was admitted to hopefully kill him there.