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Bullitt


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  Bullitt Review
Tookey's Rating
6 /10
 
Average Rating
7.67 /10
 
Starring
Steve McQueen , Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon
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Directed by: Peter Yates
Written by: Harry Kleiner, Alan R. Trustman from Robert L. Pike's novel, Mute Witness

 
 
 
Released: 1968
   
Genre: ACTION
THRILLER
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 113
 
 


 
San Francisco cop (Steve McQueen) goes after killers.
Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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Stylish thriller set in San Francisco, with a cop anti-hero in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) - a tough, existentialist loner following his conscience with little time for a private life, and who is almost as hostile to bureaucracy and superior officers as he is to criminals. McQueen carries the role off with considerable cool, and this is the movie which made him a superstar. In other respects, the script and characters look terribly cliched. Bullitt does, however, have an exciting (and much imitated) car chase which helped win Frank P. Keller's editing an Oscar; bafflingly, Wiilliam A. Fraker's cinematography wasn't even nominated.


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