Bullitt
Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film directed by Peter Yates from a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner and based on the 1963 crime novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. In the film, detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.
Plot
On a Friday night in Chicago, mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after fleeing the Outfit. The next morning, Lieutenant Frank Bullitt of the San Francisco Police Department, along with his team, Delgetti and Stanton, are tasked by U.S. 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 Monday morning. The detectives are told he is in a cheap hotel on the Embarcadero. At 1a.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 chest.
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 deputy sheriff dodge charger doppelgänger drive embarcadero fax flee follow ford mustang garrote gas station guard habeas corpus hear hitman hotel room john doe kill london morning nothing organized crime outfit passport phone call police department protective custody rome san francisco international airport san francisco police department senate 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 |
publisher | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
recordedAt | San Francisco |
theme | action drama chase |