Bullitt (1968)
Starring Steve McQueen, Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn, Simon Oakland, Felice Orlandi, Pat Renella, Jacqueline Bisset, Carl Reindel, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Georg Stanford Brown, Robert Duvall, Justin Tarr, Norman Fell, Al Checco, Ed Peck, John Aprea, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Charlene Polite
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Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
My review · Reviewed 11/26/2010
Ok, ok... so I had never seen a Steve McQueen film. Sue me. I liked McQueen a lot in this movie. That said, the directing was mediocre and the movie just kind of fell over at the end. I thought I read somewhere that the editor had won an Emmy for this film. This is probably the only film that I had ever noticed the editing, and that wasn't a good thing. In one car chase the editor cut the film just as McQueen's car was about to crash into another car so that the chase could continue.