Bullitt

Bullitt is an American film directed by Peter Yates from 1968. The film won an Oscar and was nominated for five BAFTA Awards.

The film was based on the novel Mute Witness of writer Robert l. Fish and turned into a screenplay by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner. The mounting of Frank p. Keller won a Oscar, the sound of the film was nominated but won none.

The lead role is played by Steve McQueen in Bullitt. Also Robert Duvall, Jacqueline Bisset , Robert Vaughnand Don Gordon appear. The film is best known for the huge car chase, in which McQueen himself a 1968 Ford Mustang control and rips through the streets of San Francisco .

These police Peter Yates film was groundbreaking in many areas to name a few. It was one of the first films in which the police officer who is central to the story, opinionated and self some rules of the law ignores to achieve its goal. This principle immediately struck among the general public and soon followed a lot of films with similar protagonists. Examples are: Dirty Harry (1971), The French Connection (1971), Chinatown (1974) and Se7en (1995). But Frank Bullitt, the main character from the movie, not just a classic example of an opinionated agent, but additionally also by a young, beautiful and tough COP with a fast car. The principle was in several television series and films such as Miami Vice, Starsky and Hutch, Magnum P.I. and Knight Rider retrieved. ==Content[ Edit] == A politician, Walter Chalmers, is doing a research in San Francisco against the organised crime. Chalmers has one major asset, Crown witness Johnny Ross, who with his statement is capable of a full crime organization to get behind bars. Johnny is the brother of Pete Ross, the leader of a gangster family.

Because they realize how important Johnny Ross ' role is, they decide to give him police protection. Three agents, sergeant Delgetti, Inspector Stanton and Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, alternate while protecting their Crown witness. Friday night, one week before the hearing, is Stanton in a cheap hotel room along with Johnny Ross. The pair get from the bar to hear that they visited. Two unknown men pose as Chalmers, and his friend and attack the Chamber of Ross inside. There shooting them both the Crown witness as Stanton down.

The two are taken to hospital and Bullitt gets blamed. Chalmers is furious and fears that the process will not continue. He threatens even the Bullitt's career to mess up as Ross in hospital dies. Bullitt itself is more interested in the perpetrators and the condition of his partner Stanton. When he is present in the hospital, he notes that one of the perpetrators to kill Ross. I can't, but Ross dies moments later though to his injuries.

Then follows the taciturn Frank Bullitt the way Ross in the city and he checks the phone calls, which Ross claimed just before his death. So he comes at Dorothy Simmons and he discovers that Ross was not who he claimed to be. Just after this research notes with his Ford Mustang Bullitt, while he runs through the city, that he pursued by the two perpetrators of the attack on his partner and Ross. There is a brief chase but the duo lost in one of the many touches Bullitt streets. But suddenly they both that the Ford Mustang is behind their Dodge Charger is. There follows a terribly high-speed pursuit and eventually die the two perpetrators after a deadly crash.

Bullitt continues with the research and decision together with a friend of his, Cathy, to Dorothy Simmons and to question her. But when they arrive at the hotel where Dorothy is staying, they notice that Dorothy is killed. Cathy can't handle the way Bullitt copes with the murder. He stays cool and emotionless and realizes that this is in his work as an agent belongs to. The corpse of Dorothy is examined and so they come to know that her last name not Simmons but Janos is. Chalmers forces Bullitt a paper, which States that Ross died under his control, to draw, but Frank Bullitt refuses any cooperation. Later they notice that the man was actually Johnny Ross by Dorothy Johnson and Albert Renick is called. Ross Johnson forced to pretend to be him. Johnson, Ross, could leave the country disguised as. To ensure that no one would ever think to kill, they left Jason Ross and later also his wife, who was in the know.

Bullitt must now rapidly intervene and find the real Ross. He pulls to the airport, where Johnny Ross tries to flee to Rome. Bullitt must stop him before he can on the plane to Italy steps. It comes to an exciting and long pursuit on and around the airport. Ross flight to the entrance and shoot down a security guard there. Bullitt shoot him without hesitation a little later death. ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * The cars used in the Chase are a dark "Highland Green" 1968 Ford Mustang G.T. 390 Fastback and a "Tuxedo Black" 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum.
 * Steve McQueen partly based his character on Dave Toschi, the police officer who investigated the Zodiacmurders. He also wore his gun upside down in a holster. To this fact is even referenced in the movie David Fincher 's Zodiac.
 * The later Golden Globe-winner Joanna Cassidy in Bullitt appeared for the first time in a film, still as edelfigurant.