Bullitt (1968)

	Directed by: Peter Yates	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Bullitt RUNNING TIME 113 minutes
	Produced by: Philip D'Antoni
	Written by (based on Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish): Alan R. Trustman Harry Kleiner

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
SFPD Lieutenant Frank Bullitt	Steve McQueen	½
Walter Chalmers	Robert Vaughn
Cathy	Jacqueline Bisset	½
Inspector "Del" Delgetti	Don Gordon	½
Weissberg	Robert Duvall	-
Captain Sam Bennett	Simon Oakland	-
Captain Baker	Norman Fell	-
Sergeant Carl Stanton	Carl Reindel	-
Albert Renick	Felice Orlandi	-
Johnny Ross	Pat Renella	-
Dr. Willard	Georg Stanford Brown

Review

This storied 1968 picture was trendsetting and chic in everything from setting and score to mood shifts and depictions of violence. Steve McQueen gives perhaps what remains his best ever performance as San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt, who specializes in witness protection and avoiding confirmation bias, another of the film's avant-garde traits. With British director Peter Yates on board, who had become hot property thanks to his 1967 film Robbery, Bullitt attains a hypnotic quality through its clever camerawork, elegant pacing, and unusual attention to procedural detail. As Bullitt quietly asserts his masculine authority, you feel that you're witnessing real policework – and yet you don't, because McQueen's detached naturalism and Yates' exhilarating, totally unsentimental storytelling lift the story out of reality and into a peculiarly attractive New Hollywood realm of crisp car chases and swanky pessimism.