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Bullitt Torrent-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r10dr -----------------------------------------A no glitter, all guts cop named Frank Bullitt - with two other cops - is assigned to what seems like a normal case: to watch a witness for 48 hours before he goes to trial on Monday. When one officer and the witness are injured, Walter Chalmers gets angry at Bullitt. After he chases the hit-men that shot them, he vows to catch them, and the mafia boss that hired them.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.The details...the black turtleneck, the Colt Diamondback in the upside-down shoulder holster, the gorgeous girlfriend with the English accent (seems a shame to relegate Jacqueline Bisset to details, but..). That is what I remember, and of course the never-quite-duplicated car chase (never to be duplicated until there is an actor with McQueen's presence and driving ability...heck the likes of Stallone were better playing a character who didn't drive, who only rode buses!!!) I never miss this movie on AMC and will eventually break down and buy a copy. By the way it was a Dodge, not a Plymouth...a Dodge Charger 440 (a Hemi would have made short work of a 390 iron-block Mustang, even with McQueen driving, although Ford was the king of product placement then I'm sure Steve would have preferred a different vehicle, perhaps an E-type Jaguar...maybe Ford should have bought Jaguar earlier!!!)
I've read comments indicating that this movie was the first of its kind, a trend-setter...well, actually I see it as late 40's-early 50's film noir updated to the Panavision-Technicolor era. McQueen, while indubitably McQueen, follows in the footsteps of Glenn Ford (The Big Heat), Robert Mitchum (many roles) and a declining Robert Taylor (the eponymous Rogue Cop). In appearance he is not unlike the equally laconic and quite intimidating for his size Alan Ladd. While the later movies like The Transporter, et al, copied elements of Bullitt, Bullitt did some copying of its own, albeit excellent copying!!***SPOILERS***
I've known about this film for as long as i can remember, I've heard stories about how fantastic the car chase is, I've heard this film referred to as the coolest film of all time. Having now watched it I find that I've been terribly misled.
The plot of this film could be written on the head of a pin and then that pin could be used to poke holes through it. By the time I laboured through this film I quite frankly couldn't care and why should I? It could have made a good episode of Kojak but a great film?
OK, so perhaps the characters seem cliched now because every cop film has one. Perhaps the tough but fair Captain, the girlfriend who doesn't understand her cop boyfriend etc etc where fairly newish archetypes at the time so I won't dwell.
The one ray of sunshine in this film was the character of Walter Chalmers played beautifully by Robert Vaughn, why didn't we get more of him? I could have happily sat through an entire film based on his character and I know I will watch Bullitt again (with my finger on the fast forward button) to enjoy his role.
For my Steve McQueen fix I'd rather watch The Thomas Crown Affair and for my car chase fix this film has nothing on The French Connection.
My score is for Robert Vaughn alone.A terrific movie, just right for Steve McQueen—fast, well acted, written the way people talk.Lieutenant Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), Sergeant Delgetti (Don Gordon), and Detective Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel) of the San Francisco Police Department are charged by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) (who is holding a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime in two days) with guarding Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), the key witness against Johnny's mobster brother Pete Ross (Vic Tayback). When Johnny's hotel room is broken into and both he and Stanton are shot, Chalmers seems more interested in placing blame on Bullitt's negligence. When Johnny later dies, Bullitt (with the help of Johnny's doctor) decides to hide his body in an attempt to find out who murdered him. Bullitt is based on Mute Witness (1963) by American writer Robert L. Fish [1912-1981]. The novel was adapted for the film by screenwriters Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner. "A Song for Cathy" composed by Lalo Schifrin. Yes. It's at the corner of Taylor and Clay Streets in the Nob Hill section of San Francisco. The building where Bullitt lives is right across Clay St at the same intersection. Also, the address given for the Daniels Hotel and the phone number of Coffee Cantata are real places, too. Bullitt contrived to keep his death secret because he feared Chalmers, who had no interest in finding the killers, would, through his obvious influence with SFPD brass, have any investigation quashed. Chalmers' only interest was in the publicity from the Senate hearings which, with his key witness dead, would either not occur or be only negative. Granted, all the hotel clerk said is "Sunshine Cab". Bullitt then left the hotel and immediately found the cab driver (Robert Duvall) at the Car Wash. Viewers who have noted this "plot hole" explain it in two ways; (1) Delgetti or Bullitt phoned or went (offscreen) to the cab company to check their records, or (2) the cab driver was assigned to that area and was known to Bullitt. From phone records. The cab driver informs Bullitt that Ross made two calls from a certain phone booth, the second one being long distance (as "He put in a lot of change"). From phone records, Bullitt learns that Ross called Dorothy Simmons person-to-person at the Thunderbolt Motel in San Mateo nine hours before Ross was murdered. In her luggage, Bullitt finds thousands of dollars in traveler's checks issued to Albert Renick and Dorothy Renick as well as travel brochures to Rome, Italy, but no airplane tickets or passports. It's at this point that Bullitt starts putting together the pieces of the puzzle. The chase began because the hitmen had been following Bullitt in hopes that he would lead them to Johnny Ross so that they could finish the job. However, during the first part of the chase, when they're driving at normal city speeds, Bullitt tricks them into passing him in order to see their faces. Now that Bullitt can identify at least one of them, they may have decided to kill him, but when Bullitt outmaneuvered them, they were simply trying to get away. Actually, the car chase was out of sequence moving in seconds from one end of the city to another. Places they pass in the chase include Russian Hill, Bernal Heights, Marina Blvd near Crissy Fields, Potero Hill. John McLaren Park, and ends on Highway 1. It's said that they wanted to perform the chase across the Golden Gate Bridge but couldn't get permission. For two reasons: (1) to kill Dorothy Renick, and (2) to retrieve the passports and airline tickets so that he could get out of the country under a false identity. When he finds the traveler's checks in Dorothy's luggage, Bullitt requests a copy of their passport applications from the Immigration Department in Chicago. At Ross' autopsy, it's noted by the coroner that Ross has multiple surgical scars to his face. When the passport photos come through, Bullitt realizes that the man Chalmers sent him to guard, the man who was shot in the hotel room, was actually used car salesman Albert Renick, surgically altered to look like Johnny Ross, and he concludes that Renick was set up by Ross to take the fall. Unconfirmed Pan American airline tickets to Rome in the Renicks' names are located at the San Francisco airport, so Bullitt and Delgetti go in search of Ross, standing near the gate, waiting for him to board the flight, but Ross doesn't show. On a hunch, Bullitt phones Passenger Service to see whether Renick might have changed his tickets and learns that he was just reassigned to a departing flight to London. Bullitt calls Flight Control and requests that the flight return to the gate. He and Delgetti rush to that gate, and Bullitt boards the flight while the passengers are being made to debark and wait in the departure lounge. He spots Ross at the back of the plane. Knowing that he's been caught, Ross dashes for a tail exit, jumps off the plane, and leads Bullitt on a foot chase over the tarmac. Ross pulls out a gun and shoots at Bullitt then runs back into the terminal where he is eventually caught between two glass doors and shot by Bullitt. Chalmers, who has been waiting at the airport to take custody of his key witness, sees the shooting go down. Bullitt returns to his apartment to find Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset) asleep. He puts down his gun and washes his hands. Up until 1967, aircraft hijackings were still relatively rare, having averaged only one per year since 1958. A passenger could board a flight carrying a gun, and nobody would be any the wiser (incomprehensible today). So, it was still easy to bring a weapon onto an airplane when this movie was filmed in 1968. It wasn't until 5 January, 1973, that the Federal Aviation Administration started requiring airports screen passengers and carry-on baggage for obvious weapons and explosives. Viewers who have liked the chase scene in Bullitt recommend starting with Robbery (1967) (1967), a dramatization of the Great Train Robbery and directed by Peter Yates, who also directed Bullitt. Following Bullitt, the number of movies with good chase scenes proliferated. Some of the recommended ones include: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) (1970), The French Connection (1971) (1971), Vanishing Point (1971) (1971), Shaft's Big Score! (1972) (1972), What's Up, Doc? (1972) (1972), which spoofs the chase from Bullitt, Cleopatra Jones (1973) (1973), Live and Let Die (1973) (1973), where the chase takes place in boats, The Seven-Ups (1973) (1973), which reuses the Bullitt soundtrack during a similar chase scene, Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) (1974), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) (1974), Truck Turner (1974) (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (1977), and The Driver (1978) (1978). Because Johnny isn't really Johnny Ross. He is a look-alike named Albert Renick. The plan was that Johnny Ross would disappear and not have to testify at the senatorial committee, so he believes that the caller is there to help him to escape and then disappear. 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