Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni. The picture stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. The screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner was based on the 1963 novel, Mute Witness, by Robert L. Fish, writing under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike. Lalo Schifrin wrote the original jazz-inspired score, arranged for brass and percussion. Robert Duvall has a small role as a cab driver who provides information to McQueen.
Bullitt | |
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Film poster by Michel Landi | |
Directed by | Peter Yates |
Produced by | Philip D'Antoni |
Screenplay by | Alan R. Trustman Harry Kleiner |
Based on | Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish |
Starring | Steve McQueen Robert Vaughn Jacqueline Bisset |
Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
Edited by | Frank P. Keller |
Production company | Solar Productions Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
Release date |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million |
Box office | $42.3 million |
The film was made by McQueen's Solar Productions company, with his partner Robert E. Relyea as executive producer. Released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on October 17, 1968, the film was a critical and box-office smash, later winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and receiving a nomination 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 also notable for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in movie history.
In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Screenplay
Ambitious San Francisco politician Walter Chalmers is about to present a surprise star witness in a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime. Johnny Ross, an alleged defector from the Organization in Chicago, is supposed to be the surprise witness, and he requires protective custody over the weekend until his Monday morning testimony. Chalmers (along with his committee staff) believes that every detail has been covered in advance, including where Ross should be held incognito (and by whom) until the hearings occur.
Seeking to associate himself and his grandstanding mob-busting effort with a high-visibility and highly successful SFPD detective, Chalmers requests that Lieutenant Frank Bullitt be put in charge of Ross's physical security and of the security detail of SFPD officers. Bullitt and his team, Sergeant Delgetti and Inspector Stanton, take up their protective custody of Ross with around-the-clock protection in a cheap hotel - the Hotel Daniels - selected by Chalmers. Upon arriving at Ross's hotel, Bullitt is immediately bothered by the vulnerability of Ross's situation. The room is on an outside face of the hotel building. It is on an upper floor, but its windows are at the exact level of an intercity expressway and close enough for someone in a moving vehicle to recognize the room's occupants and fire into the room, with or without a sniper's scope.
Too late to change anything, Bullitt deploys his protective team. Delgetti takes the first shift and Stanton takes the second shift. Delgetti calls Bullitt at home from the hotel room to give him the all-clear at the shift change to Stanton, and Bullitt reconfirms that he will personally be relieving Stanton for the third shift, and all seems quiet as Delgetti departs. A few minutes later, Stanton calls Bullitt at about 1:00 am to advise him that the desk clerk has unexpectedly called to announce that "Chalmers" and an unidentified man are downstairs and want to come up. While Stanton is talking to Bullitt, Ross surreptitiously unchains the hotel room door-lock. Bullitt tells Stanton to call Delgetti to tell him to return, and Bullitt advises Stanton that he is also on his way. As Ross backs away from the hotel room door, two hitmen burst in and open fire. Stanton is seriously wounded, and Ross is critically wounded.
At the hospital, Chalmers holds Bullitt responsible. Later, Bullitt thwarts a second assassination attempt on the hospitalized Ross before it can materialize, but Ross soon dies of his original wounds. Helped by a sympathetic Dr. Willard, who had been snubbed by Chalmers, Bullitt delays news of Ross's death by spiriting his body out of the hospital using a private ambulance service, registering it at the city morgue as a John Doe. Bullitt locates the cab driver who drove Ross to the hotel, who then retraces Ross's movements upon arriving in town, and also discovers that Ross made a long distance call from a phone booth. Bullitt's confidential informant, Eddy, reveals that Ross was caught stealing $2 million ($14.1 million today) from the Chicago mob and fled to San Francisco after escaping an attempted hit in Chicago. Meanwhile, Chalmers serves Bullitt's captain with a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to force Bullitt to produce Ross.
While driving in San Francisco, Bullitt is pursued by Ross's hitmen in a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. He flips the chase, turning the hunters into the hunted. They attempt to escape, and a high-speed chase ensues through the streets of Russian Hill (actually a composite location with Potrero Hill) and out onto the highway south of the city, ending when Bullitt's 1968 Ford Mustang GT forces the Charger off the road, and it plows into a gas station where it explodes in a huge fireball.
Bullitt and Delgetti face their superiors on Sunday morning. They reveal that Ross is dead and their only leads are phone records indicating that Ross's phone call was to a Dorothy Simmons in a hotel in San Mateo. The detectives are given until Monday to deliver results. With his car out of commission following the chase, Bullitt gets a ride from his girlfriend Cathy in her Porsche 356 convertible. Meanwhile, the detectives have discovered Simmons strangled in her hotel room. Cathy sees police rushing in and follows, fearing for Bullitt. Horrified by the crime scene, she later confronts him about his violent world, wondering whether she really understands him and where the life he leads will take them.
Back at San Francisco police headquarters, Bullitt and Delgetti receive the luggage that the police had retrieved from the cartage service which Simmons had used to transport her luggage from San Mateo to San Francisco International Airport. Simmons' luggage turns out to be the luggage of two people: a male and a female. The luggage contains two sets (male and female) of brand-new clothing and personal toilet articles, and two airline ticket and passport folders with passports missing. There are also two travel brochures from a Chicago travel agency, each identically describing the agencies' Rome vacation package. The key pieces of evidence from the luggage, however, are two sets of traveler's cheques, hidden in the clothing of each set of luggage, in the amount of many tens of thousands of dollars each; all have been properly prepared, signed and issued to "Albert Renick" and "Dorothy Renick".
Bullitt, seeing the significance of this self-identifying clue (the travelers checks were obviously genuine and had been signed in the presence of their issuer), concluded that the names on the checks were most likely genuine, their identities having been verified prior to the issuance of the travelers checks by their issuers. Bullitt directs Delgetti to obtain passport information on the Renicks from the U.S. Immigration Service office in Chicago as well as a fingerprint check on the "dead" Johnny Ross, to be compared to the fingerprints on Albert Renick's passport application. In the meantime, Chalmers again confronts Bullitt, demanding a signed admission that Ross died while in Bullitt's custody.
Bullitt refuses to comply, his suspicions regarding "Ross"'s true identity now nearly fully confirmed. When a copy of Albert Renick's passport application arrives by fax, it confirms that the man Chalmers had believed (and had told the SFPD) was Ross was actually Albert Renick. Renick is a used car salesman from Chicago without any criminal record. His only significance was that he bore a startling resemblance to the "real" Ross. Bullitt gives the full picture to Chalmers, pointing out that he was duped by the real Johnny Ross, who apparently convinced Albert Renick to allow himself to be used to fake Ross's presence by posing as the "real" Johnny Ross under police protection at the Hotel Daniels; unwittingly, he is killed in Ross' place by a professional hit team which Ross' brother, Pete Ross, had hired on the order of the Chicago Mob to kill the real Johnny Ross.
After "Ross"'s death, the real Johnny Ross, still alive, strangles Dorthy Renick in her hotel room in San Mateo to complete the cover-up. Ross carries this out because, after her husband's death, Dorthy Renick was the only person (other than Johnny Ross) who knew the real identity of the man who died from the multiple gunshot wounds sustained Friday evening at the Hotel Daniels.
Delgetti discovers plane reservations for the Renicks on an evening flight to Rome. He and Bullitt go to San Francisco International Airport to pursue Ross, traveling as Renick. They stake out the Rome flight gate, only to find that Ross has switched to a slightly earlier flight to London that is already taxiing toward takeoff. Chalmers shows up to lay claim to his witness, even though Ross is now wanted for murder, and Chalmers is again rebuffed by Bullitt. Bullitt has the plane stopped just prior to take-off, but Ross escapes Bullitt's pursuit by jumping out the jet's rear cabin door. Bullitt then jumps as well, and a foot chase across busy runways leads to a tense pursuit inside the crowded airport passenger terminal. After Ross bolts and shoots a security guard, Bullitt shoots and kills Ross before Ross can fire a shot at Bullitt. The empty-handed Chalmers skulks away and is driven off in his Lincoln Continental limousine displaying a "Support Your Local Police" bumper sticker.
Early the next morning, Bullitt walks home and observes Cathy's parked car upon approaching his apartment. He looks in and sees her sleeping in his bedroom but does not wake her. He takes off his shoulder holster and balances it on a banister. As he begins to wash up at his bathroom sink, he looks up into his own reflection in the mirror and contemplates himself ruefully just before the movie ends with a camera shot of his ammo clip.
- Steve McQueen as Lt. Frank Bullitt
- Don Gordon as Delgetti
- Robert Vaughn as Walter Chalmers
- Simon Oakland as Captain Sam Bennett
- Felice Orlandi as Albert "Johnny Ross" Renick
- Pat Renella as Johnny Ross
- Jacqueline Bisset as Cathy
- Carl Reindel as Carl Stanton
- Paul Genge as Mike, The Hitman
- Bill Hickman as Phil, The Hitman's Partner
- Robert Duvall as Weissberg (cab driver)
- Norman Fell as Captain Baker
- Georg Stanford Brown as Dr. Willard
- Justin Tarr as Eddy the Informant
- Al Checco as Desk Clerk
- Victor Tayback as Pete Ross
- Robert Lipton as Chalmers' 1st Aide
- Ed Peck as Westcott (reporter at hospital)
- John Aprea as Killer
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."
Development
Bullitt was director Yates' first American film. He was hired after McQueen saw his 1967 UK feature, Robbery, with its extended car chase. Joe Levine, whose Embassy Pictures had distributed Robbery, didn't much like it, but Alan Trustman, who saw the picture the very week he was writing the Bullitt chase scenes, insisted that McQueen, Relyea and D'Antoni (none of whom had ever heard of Yates) see Robbery and consider Yates as director for Bullitt.
Casting
McQueen based the character of Frank Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, with whom he worked prior to filming. McQueen even copied Toschi's unique "fast draw" shoulder holster. Toschi later became famous, along with Inspector Bill Armstrong, as the lead San Francisco investigators of the Zodiac Killer murders that began shortly after the release of Bullitt. Toschi is played by Mark Ruffalo in the film Zodiac, in which Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) mentions that "McQueen got the idea for the holster from Toschi."
Realism
Bullitt is notable for its extensive use of actual locations rather than studio sets, and its attention to procedural detail, from police evidence processing to emergency room procedures. Director Yates' use of new lightweight Arriflex cameras allowed for greater flexibility in location shooting.
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