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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
 
 


 
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Essentially one of those deadpan-cop-against-the-system cliches, with Steve McQueen single-handedly solving the puzzle that the screenplay presents to the audience half-solved from the start. But Yates added the garnish of not just one but two chases, one around departing aircraft as a jetport and other by car up and down San Francisco’s hills, and did them with such style that you never notice, for example, how peculiarly empty the streets are as the cars careen by.

(Judith Crist)

A competent director (Peter Yates), working with competent technicians, gives a fairly dense texture to a vacuous script... Efficiently made and extremely well-edited but basically uninteresting.

(Pauline Kael, New Yorker)


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