Bullitt
Bullitt is a 1968 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni. The picture stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland and Norman Fell. 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.
Plot
On a Friday night in Chicago, mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after fleeing from the Outfit. 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. The detectives are told he is in a cheap hotel on Embarcadero. Delgetti takes the first shift followed by Stanton and then Bullitt. At 1 a.m. Sunday, while Stanton is phoning Bullitt to say Chalmers and a friend want to come up, Ross unchains the room door. Two hitmen burst in, shooting Stanton in the leg and Ross in the neck.
Awards
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author | Alan Trustman Harry Kleiner |
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award | Academy Award for Best Film Editing |
contentLocation | San Francisco |
director | Peter Yates |
editor | Frank P. Keller |
genre | action crime drama thriller |
keywords | being followed car salesman cheap hotel chicago chicago outfit contract killing crime scene deputy sheriff dodge charger doppelgänger drive embarcadero fax flee follow ford mustang guard habeas corpus hear hitman horrify john doe kill morning nothing organized crime outfit phone call protective custody read rome san francisco international airport san francisco police department senate serve sfpd shoot subcommittee telecopier traveler\'s check traveler\'s cheque united states senate used car salesman |
musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound |
producer | Philip D'Antoni |
productionCompany | Solar Productions Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
publisher | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
recordedAt | San Francisco |
theme | action drama chase neo-noir |