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'''''Bullitt''''' is a 1968 American [[Crime film|crime]] [[action thrillerfilm|action]] [[Thriller film|thriller]] film<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bullitt-v7534 |title=Bullitt (1968) - Peter Yates |website=[[AllMovie]] |access-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230081046/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bullitt-v7534 |url-status=live|last=Tobey|first=Matthew}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> directed by [[Peter Yates]] andfrom produceda screenplay by [[PhilipAlan D'Antoni]]Trustman|Alan R. The picture stars [[Steve McQueenTrustman]] as the title character,and [[SanHarry FranciscoKleiner]] policeand detectivebased Frankon Bullitt,the who1963 pursuescrime anovel group''Mute ofWitness'' by [[Mafia|mobstersRobert L. Fish]] after they kill the witness he's been assigned to protect. TheIt caststars also[[Steve featuresMcQueen]], [[Robert Vaughn]], [[Jacqueline Bisset]], [[Don Gordon (actor)|Don Gordon]], [[Robert Duvall]], [[Simon Oakland]], and [[Norman Fell]]. In the film, detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.<ref name="Bullitt">{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21345/Bullitt/full-credits.html |title=Bullitt |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=November 19, 2016 |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115624/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21345/Bullitt/full-credits.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The screenplay by [[Alan Trustman|Alan R. Trustman]] and [[Harry Kleiner]] was based on the 1963 novel ''Mute Witness''{{sfn|Monush|2009|page=274}}{{sfn|Eagan|2009|page=641}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzdsAwAAQBAJ&q=Bullitt%20was%20based%20on%20the%201963%20novel%2C%20Mute%20Witness%2C%20by%20Robert%20L.%20Fish%2C&pg=PT173 |title=Steve McQueen: A Biography |first=Marc |last=Eliot |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group#Imprints|Crown Archetype]] |edition=1st |location=New York City |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-3074-5321-1 |access-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002014511/https://books.google.com/books?id=DzdsAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT173&q=Bullitt%20was%20based%20on%20the%201963%20novel%2C%20Mute%20Witness%2C%20by%20Robert%20L.%20Fish%2C |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Murphy|1999|page=179}} by [[Robert L. Fish]], under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mute Witness |author-link=Robert L. Fish |first=Robert L. |last=Pike |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |location=New York City |year=1963 |isbn=978-9-9975-2787-5}}</ref>{{sfn|Kabatchnik|2012|page=231}} The film was made by McQueen's Solar Productions company, with his partner [[Robert Relyea]] as executive producer. [[Lalo Schifrin]] wrote the original [[jazz]]-inspired [[Film score|score]].
 
A [[star vehicle]] for McQueen, ''Bullitt'' began development once Yates was hired upon the completion of the screenplay, which differs significantly from Fish's novel. [[Principal photography]] took place throughout 1967, with filming primarily taking place on location in [[San Francisco]]. The film was produced by McQueen's Solar Productions, with [[Robert Relyea]] as executive producer alongside [[Philip D'Antoni]]. [[Lalo Schifrin]] wrote the film's [[jazz]]-inspired [[Film score|score]]. ''Bullitt'' is notable for its extensive use of practical locations and stuntwork.
Released by [[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]] on October 17, 1968, the film was a critical and box-office success, later winning the [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing]] ([[Frank P. Keller]]) and receiving a nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Sound]]. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 [[Edgar Award]] from the [[Mystery Writers of America]] for [[List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners|Best Motion Picture Screenplay]]. ''Bullitt'' is famous for its [[car chase]] scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in film history.<ref name=Ebert /><ref name=Maltin /><ref name=Levy /><ref name=Weber />
 
In 2007, ''Bullitt'' was selected for preservationreleased in the United States on October 17, 1968, by [[NationalWarner FilmBros.-Seven RegistryArts]]. byIt thewas a critical success, with praise for its screenplay, editing, and action sequences: its [[Librarycar chase]] sequence is regarded as one of Congressthe most influential in film history.<ref name=Ebert /><ref name=Maltin /><ref name=Levy /><ref name=Weber /> The film received numerous awards and nominations, including being nominated for two [[Academy Awards]], aswinning "culturallyfor [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]. It grossed $42.3 million worldwide, historicallybecoming one of the highest grossing films of 1968. In 2007, or''Bullitt'' aestheticallywas significant"preserved in the U.S. [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/08012/registry.html |title=National Film Registry 2007 |website=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=April 28, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201943/http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/08012/registry.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=September 18, 2020|website=Library of Congress |archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191832/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Plot==
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On a Friday night in [[Chicago]], mobster Johnny Ross briefly meets his brother, Pete, after he fledfleeing the [[Chicago Outfit|Outfit]]. The next morning, Lieutenant Frank Bullitt of the [[San Francisco Police Department]], Detectivealong Lieutenantwith Frank Bullitt'shis team, including Delgetti and Stanton, isare tasked by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers with [[protective custody|guarding]] Ross over the weekend, until he can be presented as a witness to a [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[subcommittee]] hearing on [[organized crime]] on Monday morning. The detectives are told that he is in a cheap hotel on the [[Embarcadero (San Francisco)|Embarcadero]]. At 1&nbsp;a.m. Sunday, while Stanton is phoning Bullitt to say that Chalmers and a friend want to come up, Ross unchains the room door. Two [[contractContract killing|hitmen]] burst in, and shootshooting Stanton in the leg and Ross in the chest.
 
Chalmers holds Bullitt responsible. After Ross dies fromin his woundshospital, but Bullitt conceals the death to keep the investigation open and sends the body to the morgue as a [[John Doe]] in order to keep the investigation open. An informant saysstates that Ross was in town[[San Francisco]] because he stolehad stolen millions of dollars from the Chicago Outfit. Bullitt also findsdiscovers out that heRoss made a long-distance phone call to a hotel in [[San Mateo, California|San Mateo]]. While driving his [[Ford Mustang (first generation)#1967–1968|Ford Mustang]], Bullitt becomes aware he is being followed by a [[Dodge Charger (B-body)#Second generation|Dodge Charger]]. An extended chase ensues through the city, ending in an explosion in [[Brisbane, California|Brisbane]] when the Charger crashes into a gas station, killing the two hitmen.
 
Bullitt and Delgetti are confronted by their superior, Captain Sam Bennett, as well as. Chalmers, (who is assisted by SFPD Captain Baker.) Afterserves being servedthem a writ of ''[[habeas corpus]]'', forcing Bullitt revealsto reveal that Ross has died. Bennett ignores the writ sincebecause it is Sunday,; andthis he letsallows Bullitt to investigate the lead of the long-distance phone call to San Mateo. With no car, Bullitt gets a ride from his architect girlfriend, Cathy. AtThe thetwo hotel,of hethem findsfind thea woman who was phoned; she is garroted[[garrote]]d in her hotel room. Cathy followsconfronts theBullitt policeabout tohis thework, crimesaying, scene"Frank, andyou islive horrifiedin a sewer." She wonders, "What will happen to us?"▼
While driving his [[Ford Mustang (first generation)#1967–1968|Ford Mustang]], Bullitt is followed by a [[Dodge Charger (B-body)#Second generation|Dodge Charger]], driven by the two hitmen. An extended chase ensues through the streets of San Francisco to [[Brisbane, California|Brisbane]]. Eventually, the Charger crashes into a gas station and kills its occupants in a fiery explosion.
 
WhileBullitt examiningand Delgetti examine the victim's luggage, Bullitt and Delgetti discover a travel brochure for [[Rome]], as well as [[traveler's chequescheque|traveler's check]]s made out to an Albert and Dorothy Renick. Bullitt requests their [[passport]] applications from Chicago. Bullitt, Bennett, Chalmers and Baker gather around the [[Fax|telecopier]] as the applications arrive. It turns out that Chalmers sent Bullitt to guard a [[doppelgänger]], Albert Renick, a used car salesman from Chicago, while his wife Dorothy was staying in San Mateo. Bullitt realizes that Ross was playing the politically- ambitious Chalmers by using Renick as a decoy so that Rosshe could slip out of the country on Sunday night.▼
▲Bullitt and Delgetti are confronted by their superior, Captain Sam Bennett, as well as Chalmers, who is assisted by SFPD Captain Baker. After being served a writ of [[habeas corpus]], Bullitt reveals that Ross has died. Bennett ignores the writ since it is Sunday, and he lets Bullitt investigate the lead of the long-distance phone call to San Mateo. With no car, Bullitt gets a ride from his girlfriend, Cathy. At the hotel, he finds the woman who was phoned; she is garroted in her room. Cathy follows the police to the crime scene and is horrified.
 
Delgetti and Bullitt watch the Rome-bound passengersgate at [[San Francisco International Airport]]. However, Bullitt realizes the real Ross, using(on Renick's passport,) hasprobably switched to an earlier [[London flight]]. Bullitt boards the planeflight, but after itwhich is ordered to return to the terminal, the mobster escapes by jumping. outBullitt the rear door. Afterchases a chase across the busy runwaysfleeing Ross returnsback to the crowded passenger terminal, where heRoss guns killsdown a deputy sheriff butbefore isbeing shot dead by Bullitt. A silent Chalmers leavesarrives afterto he viewssurvey the scene, but leaves saying nothing. Early Monday morning, Bullitt arrives home to find Cathy asleep in his bed, having chosen to stay.▼
▲While examining the victim's luggage, Bullitt and Delgetti discover a travel brochure for [[Rome]], as well as [[traveler's cheques]] made out to Albert and Dorothy Renick. Bullitt requests their passport applications from Chicago. It turns out that Chalmers sent Bullitt to guard a [[doppelgänger]], Albert Renick, a used car salesman from Chicago, while his wife Dorothy was staying in San Mateo. Bullitt realizes that Ross was playing the politically-ambitious Chalmers by using Renick as a decoy so that Ross could slip out of the country on Sunday night.
 
▲Delgetti and Bullitt watch the Rome-bound passengers at [[San Francisco International Airport]]. However, the real Ross, using Renick's passport, has switched to an earlier [[London flight]]. Bullitt boards the plane, but after it is ordered to return to the terminal, the mobster escapes by jumping out the rear door. After a chase across the busy runways Ross returns to the passenger terminal where he kills a deputy sheriff but is shot dead by Bullitt. A silent Chalmers leaves after he views the scene.
 
On Monday morning, Bullitt arrives home to find Cathy asleep in his bed and has chosen to stay.
 
==Cast==
Credits from the [[American Film Institute]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=BULLITT (1968) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23455 |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]}}</ref>
[[File:Steve-McQueen-1968.jpg|thumb|McQueen in 1968, the year of the film's release.]]
[[File:DAVETOSCHI.jpg|thumb|[[Dave Toschi]], the real-life San Francisco police officer that influenced Bullitt's characterization.]]
* [[Steve McQueen]] as [[San Francisco Police Department|San Francisco Police]] Lieutenant Frank Bullitt. McQueen based his performance on San Francisco Inspector [[Dave Toschi]], with whom he worked prior to filming.<ref>McQueen, Steve. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI9CmIHmoc "The Making Of ''Bullitt''"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724181621/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI9CmIHmoc|date=July 24, 2014}}. 1968 Warner Bros. promotional short film.</ref><ref name="Graysmith">Graysmith, Robert. (1986). "Zodiac". p. 96. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-0-3128-9895-3}}</ref> McQueen even copied Toschi's unique "fast-draw" shoulder holster. Toschi later became famous, along with Inspector Bill Armstrong, as the lead San Francisco investigators of the [[Zodiac Killer]] murders that began shortly after the release of ''Bullitt''.<ref name="Graysmith" />
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* Justin Tarr as Eddy, an informant
* [[Vic Tayback]] as Pete Ross
* [[PaulJohn GengeAprea]] as Mike,Dr. a hitmanKinner
* [[Ed Peck]] as Wescott, a reporter
* Robert Lipton as Chalmers' aide
* [[JohnPaul ApreaGenge]] and [[Bill Hickman]] as hitmen
* [[Al Checco]] as a desk clerk
 
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* [[Mark Hopkins Hotel]]
* Kennedy Hotel (on Embarcadero and Howard, near the EmbarcadroEmbarcadero Freeway)
* [[Nob Hill, San Francisco|Nob Hill]]
* [[Cow Hollow, San Francisco|Cow Hollow]]
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* Enrico's (Broadway at Kearny Street)
* [[San Francisco International Airport]]
 
== Car chase ==
[[File:Burninrubber4.jpg|thumb|right|287px|Bullitt [[wheelspin|burning rubber]] in the car chase scene |alt=Photograph of a car with a driver looking backwards out of its window. The car's rear tire is smoking from the friction of spinning against the road.]]
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.<ref name=Ebert>{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19681223/REVIEWS/812230301/1023 |title=Bullitt |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=December 23, 1968 |access-date=January 18, 2010 |quote="Bullitt," as everybody has heard by now, also includes a brilliant chase scene. McQueen (doing his own driving) is chased by, and chases, a couple of gangsters up and down San Francisco's hills. They slam into intersections, bounce halfway down the next hill, scrape by half a dozen near-misses, sideswipe each other, and leave your stomach somewhere in the basement for about 11 minutes. |archive-date=October 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011180807/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19681223%2FREVIEWS%2F812230301%2F1023 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Leonard Maltin]] has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best."<ref name=Maltin>{{cite book |editor1-last=Maltin |editor1-first=Leonard |title=Leonard Maltin's 2004 Movie and Video Guide |publisher=Penguin Group |year=2004 |quote=Taut action-film makes great use of San Francisco locations, especially in now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best; Oscar-winning editing by Frank Keller. |page=195 |isbn=978-0-4512-0940-5}}</ref> [[Emanuel Levy]] wrote in 2003, "''Bullitt'' contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood's standards."<ref name=Levy>{{cite web |title=Bullitt |last=Levy |first=Emanuel |year=2008 |url=http://www.emanuellevy.com/search/details.cfm?id=4610 |access-date=November 6, 2010 |website=EmanuelLevy |archive-date=October 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024192059/http://www.emanuellevy.com/search/details.cfm?id=4610 |url-status=live }}</ref> In his obituary for Peter Yates, [[Bruce Weber (reporter)|Bruce Weber]] wrote, "Mr. Yates' reputation probably rests most securely on ''Bullitt'' (1968), his first American film – and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic."<ref name=Weber>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/movies/11yates.html |title=Peter Yates, Filmmaker, Is Dead at 81 |last=Weber |first=Bruce |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 11, 2011 |access-date=March 23, 2019 |archive-date=June 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630121443/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/movies/11yates.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
=== Filming ===
The chase scene starts at 1:05:00 into the film. The total time of the scene is 10 minutes 53 seconds. It begins under [[U.S. Route 101 in California|Highway 101]] in the city's [[Mission District, San Francisco|Mission District]] as Bullitt spots the hitmen's car. It ends outside the city, at the [[Brisbane, California|Brisbane]] exit of the Guadalupe Canyon Parkway on [[San Bruno Mountain]]. Shooting occurred over a period of weeks. The chase sequence combined several locations, located miles apart and edited together. Mapping the movie route shows that it is not continuous and is impossible to follow in real time.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Barry |first=Keith |date=Aug 27, 2009 |title=Bullitt Doesn't Look So Slick On Google Maps |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/08/bullitt-google-map/ |access-date=Dec 8, 2022 |magazine=Wired}}</ref><ref name=Wojdyla>{{cite web |url=http://jalopnik.com/343741/bullitt-chase-sequence-mapped-proves-a-tough-route |title=Bullitt Chase Sequence Mapped, Proves a Tough Route |last=Wojdyla |first=Ben |website=[[Gizmodo Media Group|Jalopnik]] |date=January 11, 2008 |access-date=March 6, 2014 |archive-date=March 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307111103/http://jalopnik.com/343741/bullitt-chase-sequence-mapped-proves-a-tough-route |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Ray |date=September 24, 2002 |title=Bullitt Locations in San Francisco |url=http://www.rjsmith.com/bullitt-locations.html |access-date=Dec 8, 2022 |website=Ray's Web Server}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Levy |first=Emanuel |date=March 4, 2022 |title=Bullitt (1968): Famous Chase Scene–Everything You Always Wanted to Know |url=https://emanuellevy.com/review/bullitt-1968-chase-scene-what-you-need-and-want-to-know/ |access-date=Dec 8, 2022 |website=Emanuel Levy}}</ref>
 
Two 1968 325-horsepower [[Ford FE engine#390|390&nbsp;cu.&nbsp;in. ''FE'' V8]] [[Ford Mustang (first generation)#1967–1968|Ford Mustang GT]] [[FastbackFastbacks]]s (325&nbsp;hp) with four-speed manual transmissions were purchased by Warner Bros. for the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mustangspecs.com/1968-ford-mustang-bullitt-movie-car/ |title="1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt Movie Car", ''Mustang Specs'' |date=June 9, 2020 |access-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423060158/https://www.mustangspecs.com/1968-ford-mustang-bullitt-movie-car/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Mustangs' engines, brakes and suspensions were heavily modified for the chase by veteran car racer and technician [[Max Balchowsky]]. In[[Ford 2020,Motor oneCompany]] oforiginally thelent fastbacks was sold attwo [[MecumFord AuctionsGalaxie|Galaxie]] sedans for athe recordchase pricescenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of $3San Francisco.7 millionThey (~${{Formatalso price|{{Inflation|index=USfelt a Ford-GDP|value=3700000|start_year=2020}}}}Ford inbattle {{Inflation/yearwould not be believable on screen. The cars were replaced with two 1968 375-horsepower [[Chrysler B engine#440|US440 ''Magnum'' V8]] [[Dodge Charger (B-GDP}}body)#Second generation|Dodge Charger]]s. The engines in both Dodge Charger models were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were mildly upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work.<ref name="cnn2020">{{cite news |last1=Valdes-Dapena |first1=Peter |date=January 10, 2020 |title=$3.7 million: Ford Mustang driven in the movie 'Bullitt' sells for record price |work=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/cars/bullitt-mustang-auction-record-price/index.html |accessurl-datestatus=January 11, 2020 |archive-date=January 11, 2020live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111034132/https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/cars/bullitt-mustang-auction-record-price/index.html |urlarchive-statusdate=live}}</ref>January [[Ford11, Motor2020 Company]]|access-date=January originally11, lent two2020 |work=[[Ford Galaxie|GalaxieCNN]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Franciscoweb|url=https://www. They also felt a Ford-Ford battle would not be believable on screensfgate. The cars were replaced with two 1968 375com/movies/article/CUT-horsepower 440&nbsp;Magnum V8TO-powered [[Dodge Charger (BTHE-CHASE-Classic-scene-in-McQueen-body)#Second generation|Dodge Charger]]s-2580656.php|title=CUT TheTO enginesTHE inCHASE both/ DodgeClassic Chargerscene modelsin wereMcQueen's left'Bullitt' largelyunreal unmodified,as butever|website=SFGate|date=October the26, suspensions2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite wereweb|url=https://www.motortrend.com/vehicle-genres/bullitt/|title=Dangerous mildlyPursuit: upgradedThe toreal copetruth withbehind the demands"Bullitt" ofchase thescene|website=Motor stuntTrend|date=June work.20, 2005}}</ref name="cnn2020"/>
 
The director called for maximum speeds of about {{convert|75|-|80|mph}}, but the cars (including the chase cars) at times reached speeds of over {{convert|110|mph}}.<ref>{{Citationcite neededweb|url=https://www.inchcape.co.uk/blog/remembering-bullitt/|title=50 Years of Bullitt: Remembering Film's Most Iconic Car Chase|website=Inchcape|access-date=DecemberOctober 26, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://carbuzz.com/news/here-s-why-the-bullitt-car-chase-scene-was-so-influential/|title=Here's Why The Bullitt Car Chase Scene Was So Influential|website=CarBuzz|date=October 29, 20212017}}</ref>
 
Drivers' point-of-view shots were used to give the audience a participants' feel of the chase. Filming took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes 42 seconds of pursuit. Multiple takes were spliced into a single end product, resulting in discontinuity: Heavy damage on the passenger side of Bullitt's car can be seen much earlier than the incident producing it, and the Charger appears to lose five wheel covers, with different covers missing in different shots. Shooting simultaneously from multiple angles and creating a [[Montage (filmmaking)|montage]] from the footage took place to give the illusion of different streets also resulted in the speeding cars passing the same vehicles at multiple times, including, as widely noted, that of a green [[Volkswagen Beetle]].<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/wheelsonfilm/2990179/Wheels-On-Film-Bullitt.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/wheelsonfilm/2990179/Wheels-On-Film-Bullitt.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Wheels On Film: Bullitt |last1=Cowen |first1=Nick |last2=Hari |first2=Patience |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=September 19, 2008 |access-date=June 4, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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=== Editing ===
The editing of the car chase likely won [[Frank P. Keller]] the editing [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for 1968,<ref name=Hartl>{{cite news |last=Hartl |first=John |title=Top 10 car chase movies |url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/6091432 |work=[[MSNBC]] |access-date=November 7, 2010 |quote=''Bullitt'' (1968). Philip D'Antoni, who went on to produce ''The French Connection'', warmed up for it with this Steve McQueen crime drama, set in San Francisco, where the steep hills seem to yearn for cars to go sailing over them. The director, Peter Yates, makes the most of the locations, especially during a gravity-defying chase sequence that earned an Oscar for its editor, Frank P. Keller. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916231758/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/6091432 |archive-date=September 16, 2010}}</ref> and has been included in lists of the "Best Editing Sequences of All-Time."<ref name=Dirks>{{cite web |title=Best Film Editing Sequences of All Time, From the Silents to the Present: Part 5 |last=Dirks |first=Tim |url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting5.html |publisher=[[Filmsite.org]] |access-date=November 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121000656/http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting5.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the volume ''The Sixties: 1960-1969'' (2003), of his book series
''History of the American Cinema'', Cinema Arts professor Paul Monaco wrote:
{{whoBlockquote|date=December 2023}} wrote, "The most compelling street footage of 1968, however, appeared in an entirely contrived sequence, with nary a hint of documentary feel about it – the car chase through the streets of San Francisco in ''Bullitt'', created from footage shot over nearly five weeks.<ref name="Monaco"/>}}
 
Billy Fraker, the cinematographer for the film, attributed the success of the chase sequence primarily to the work of the editor, Frank P. Keller. At the time, Keller was credited with cutting the piece in such a superb manner that he made the city of San Francisco a "character" in the film.<ref name="Monaco">{{cite book |last=Monaco |first=Paul |year=2003 |title=The Sixties |series=History of the American Cinema |volume=8 |editor1-last=Harpole |editor1-first=Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WG97toYUqagC&pg=PA99 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-5202-3804-6 |page=99 |access-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-date=January 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103113741/http://books.google.com/books?id=WG97toYUqagC&pg=PA99 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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Warner Bros. ordered two identical 1968 Mustangs for filming. Both were painted Highland Green and had the GT package with 390 CID engines. These cars had the sequential [[vehicle identification number]]s 8R02S125558 and 8R02S125559.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Markovich |first=Tony |date=2018-01-14 |title=National Historic Vehicle Register Adds Original 1968 Mustang Fastback Bullitt |url=https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15159748/national-historic-vehicle-register-adds-original-1968-mustang-fastback-bullitt/ |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=Car and Driver |language=en-us}}</ref> Prior to filming, the cars were modified by Max Balchowsky. Car '558 was modified and used for the stunt driving, while '559 was used for McQueen's close-up driving shots.<ref name=":1" />
 
After the filming was complete, '559 was repaired and repainted with a single coat of Highland Green, and sold to Warner Bros. employee Robert Ross,.<ref name="machines">{{cite book |last=Stone |first=Matt |title=McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon |publisher=MBI Publishing |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7603-38957 |location=Minneapolis |page=90 |quote=One of the Mustangs was so badly damaged during filming it was judged unrepairable and scrapped. The second, chassis 8R02S125559, was sold to a Warner Bros. employee after filming was completed.}}</ref><ref whoname=":4" in/> turnRoss solddrove theit car inuntil 1970, then sold it to Frank Marranca, who had it shipped from California to New Jersey. In 1974, Marranca sold the car to Robert Kiernan through an advertisementad in ''[[Road & Track]]''.<ref name="cnn2020" /><ref name="thirdversion" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Ceppos|first=Rich|date=March 16, 2018 |title=Steve McQueen's Bullitt-Movie Mustang Suddenly Reappeared: This Is How It Happened |magazine=Car and Driver |url=https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a19457341/original-steve-mcqueen-bullitt-mustang-rediscovered/ |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026222843/https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a19457341/original-steve-mcqueen-bullitt-mustang-rediscovered/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Kiernans used it as a family vehicle before placing it in storage in 1980. In 19871977, ChadSteve McQueen attempted to buy it back, but was refused.<ref name=":4">{{cite news |title=1968 Ford Mustang Fastback (Bullitt – '559) |website=Historic Vehicle Association |url=https://www.historicvehicle.org/national-historic-vehicle-register/vehicles/1968-ford-mustang-fastback-bullitt-559/ |accessurl-datestatus=January 31, 2018 |archive-date=February 1, 2018live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201091255/https://www.historicvehicle.org/national-historic-vehicle-register/vehicles/1968-ford-mustang-fastback-bullitt-559/ |urlarchive-statusdate=liveFebruary 1, 2018 |access-date=January 31, 2018 |website=Historic Vehicle Association}}</ref> The Kiernans drove it for 46,000 miles as their family car, then put it in storage in 1980. Kiernan's son, Sean, began to restore the carvehicle in 2014, and had it authenticated in 2016, with documentation that included McQueen's letter offering to purchase it. On January 10, 2020, the car was sold by Mecum Auctions for $3.7 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=3700000|start_year=2020}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to an unidentified buyer.<ref name="cnn2020" />
 
Car '558 had been damaged severely during filming and was subsequently sent to a scrapyard. In the ensuing decades, the car was assumed to be lost. In 2016, though, Hugo Sanchez purchased a pair of Mustang coupes from the backyard of a house near [[Los Cabos Municipality|Los Cabos]], Mexico. He then sent the cars to [[Ralph Garcia]] to start work on turning one into a clone of the Eleanor Mustang from the movie, ''[[Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film)|Gone in 60 Seconds]]''. Realizing one of the two Mustangs was an S-code, Garcia had the car authenticated by Kevin Marti. The authentication revealed this to be the lost Bullitt car. In 2017, Sanchez and Garcia began to give the car a full restoration.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gastelu |first=Gary |date=March 6, 2017 |title=Ford Mustang found in Mexican junkyard is from 'Bullitt,' expert confirms |work=[[Fox News]] |url=https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ford-mustang-found-in-mexican-junkyard-is-from-bullitt-expert-confirms|access-date=March 7, 2017|archive-date=October 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002040742/https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ford-mustang-found-in-mexican-junkyard-is-from-bullitt-expert-confirms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Brzozowski |first=Aaron |date=July 19, 2018 |title=Second 'Bullitt' Mustang movie car currently undergoing restoration |url=https://fordauthority.com/2018/07/second-bullitt-mustang-movie-car-currently-undergoing-restoration/ |access-date=Dec 8, 2022 |website=Ford Authority}}</ref>
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==External links==
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* {{Official sitewebsite | https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/bullitt }}
* {{AFI film|23455|Bullitt}}
* {{AllMovie title|7534|Bullitt}}
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