Butch "Bullet" Stein
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- A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection. San Francisco Police Lieutenant Bullitt's tasked by ambitious Walter Chalmers, to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago mobster who's about to turn evidence against the organisation.
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Bullitt is a 1968 American crime action thriller film [4][5] 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.
McQueen plays a San Francisco cop assigned as bodyguard to a syndicate witness. The witness gets shotgunned — in the most brutally direct 10 seconds of film I can remember — and McQueen becomes a political football.
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On a Friday night in Chicago, mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after fleeing the Outfit. The next morning, San Francisco Police Department detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his team, Delgetti and Stanton, are tasked by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers with guarding Ross over the weekend, until he can be presented as a w...
Credits from the American Film Institute. 1. Steve McQueen as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt. McQueen based his performance on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, with whom he worked prior to filming. McQueen even copied Toschi's unique "fast-draw" shoulder holster. Toschi later became famous, along with Inspector Bill Armstrong, as...
Bullittwas co-produced by McQueen's Solar Productions and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. The film was pitched to Jack L. Warner as "doing authority differently".
At the time of the film's release, the exciting car chase scenes featuring McQueen at the wheel in all driver-visual scenes generated prodigious excitement. Leonard Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best". Emanuel Levy wrote in 2003, "Bullitt contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a s...
See also: Bullitt (soundtrack). The original score was composed by Lalo Schifrin to track the various moods and the action of the film, with Schifrin's signature contemporary American jazz style. The tracks on the soundtrack album are alternate versions of those heard in the film, re-recorded by Schifrin with leading jazz musicians, including Bud S...
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1. Book: Eagan, Daniel . America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry . registration . Bullitt was based on the 1963 novel, Mute Witness, by Robert L. Fish,. . . London . 2009 . 641–642 . 978-0-8264-1849-4. 2. Book: Kabatchnik, Amnon . Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection . . Lanham, MD . 2012 . 1st . 231 . 978-0-8108-8354-3 . February 24, 2021 . October 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/2020...
"British Director to Film U.S. Dilemma" Lesner, Sam. Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1968: c14.Web site: Bullitt (1968) - Peter Yates . . February 3, 2019 . December 30, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230081046/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bullitt-v7534 . live.Web site: Bullitt . . November 19, 2016 . September 30, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115624/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21345/Bullitt/full-credits.html . live .- William A. Fraker
- Lalo Schifrin
- Peter Yates
- Philip D'Antoni
The subject is a Johnny Ross, a mob accountant who mad off with a load of money and sought protection from the law. Bullitt puts Ross up in a hotel until the hearing, and puts several police on rotating guard. In the middle of the night, two assassins make their way into the room, kill Ross, and wound several officers.
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- Robert Duvall
Oct 3, 2023 · Bullitt follows the story of San Francisco police detective Frank Bullitt, who is assigned to protect a witness in a high-profile case. However, when the witness is targeted for assassination, Bullitt must unravel a web of corruption to keep him safe.
Plot. Thirty-five-year-old Jewish-American convict and junkie Butch "Bullet" Stein is released from prison on parole after serving an 8-year sentence for being an accomplice to a robbery, perpetrated by his friend, Irish-American gangster Paddy.
