Bullitt (DVD) (Rpkg)

Package arrived from the sender on time and in great shape. I first saw this movie in the late 60's while in the military. The line to get in the theater raped around the side of the building. The trailer did the trick because of the car chase in my opinion. It was great to watch it again without commercials.

Bullitt was released in theaters on October 17, 1968 throughout the United States. Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel titled Mute Witness (1963) by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike). Lalo Schifrin wrote the original jazz inspired score, arranged for brass and percussion. The film won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and was nominated for Best Sound. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Bullitt is probably best remembered for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, regarded as one of the most influential car chase sequences in movie history. The scene had Bullitt in a dark "Highland Green" 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 CID Fastback, chasing two hit men in a "Jewel Black" 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum. Robert Duvall has a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene. In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2008, Ford produced the Mustang Bullit model for the 40th anniversary of the film. The Bullit nameplate on the steering wheel honored the movie that made the Mustang one of the most popular cars of the 1960s and 1970s. The green color was also brought back for the anniversary edition.Summary: Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is holding a Senate subcommittee hearing in San Francisco on Organized Crime in America. To improve his political standing, Chalmers hopes to bring down Chicago mobster Pete Ross (Vic Tayback) with the aid of key witness Johnny Ross, Pete's brother. Bullitt takes place the weekend before the hearing, from Friday night (during the opening credits) to Sunday night. Following his theft of $2,000,000 in mob money and subsequent escape from Chicago to San Francisco, Johnny (Felice Orlandi) is placed in the San Francisco Police Department's protective custody for the weekend. Chalmers requests Lieutenant Frank Bullitt's (Steve McQueen) unit to guard him. Bullitt, Sergeant Delgetti (Don Gordon) and Detective Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel), give Ross around-the-clock protection at the Hotel Daniels, a cheap flophouse near the Embarcadero Freeway. Late Saturday night, a pair of hit men (Paul Genge and stunt driver Bill Hickman), burst into the room and shoot both Inspector Stanton and Ross, seriously wounding them both. Bullitt wants to investigate who shot the pair and find the Mafia boss who ordered the hit. Upset, Chalmers attempts to shift blame on to Bullitt and the San Francisco Police Department. Ross subsequently dies of his wounds. Bullitt suppresses news of the death, asking Doctor Willard (Georg Stanford Brown) to misplace the chart and have the body placed in the morgue under a John Doe identity. Chalmers arrives at the hospital on Sunday morning and is angered that Ross has disappeared. He is further incensed when he and his police minder Captain Baker (Norman Fell) receive no help from Bullitt. Chalmers places pressure on Bullitt to produce Ross, to no effect. Bullitt reconstructs Ross's movements, finding his way to a hotel where he finds a woman registered under the name Dorothy Simmons (Brandy Carroll). With the hearing the next day, Bullitt suspects the dead mobster may not be who he seems. After picking up his Ford Mustang, Bullitt is tailed by the two hit-men, resulting in a famous car chase that ultimately kills the hit-men.Questions: Why didn't Bullitt like Walter Chambers? Whom was Bullitt trying to protect? Why was Bullitt protecting this person? What did Walter Chambers have to do with the protected person? Who interrogates Bullitt? Why was Bullitt interrogated? Whose identity did Bullitt find out about? Why did Bullitt ask for a copy of a passport? Whose passport was it? Whom did Bullitt follow to the airport? Who was Bullitt girlfriend?My thoughts: Much was made at the time, and over the years since, of Lt. Bullitt's stylish "casual" attire of a turtleneck worn with a sport coat, slacks, and suede-like shoes. Since the major portion of the story in the film takes place over a Saturday and Sunday, this was actually in keeping with some police department's traditions of a more relaxed dress code on weekends for plainclothes officers. Bullitt is first seen at work when meeting Chalmers on a Friday morning - wearing a traditionally conservative navy suit under his trench coat, with a white shirt, dark tie and dress shoes. I love this movie! Bullitt could have been another Dirty Harry series if they could have done it. Steve McQueen was great in his character Bullitt. I thought that Jacqueline Bisset was great as Bullitt girlfriend. She also looked great in Bullitt blue dress shirt. I love the car chase scenes through San Francisco. Especially the ones that went down the roads on the hillside, as they would jump from one road to another. This movie keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the movie so I'm giving this movie 5 weasel stars.

"Bullitt" (1968) starring Steve McQueen....why it's a great movie and a few words about the history of it's 1968 premiere in SF CA USA."Bullitt" (1968) is tightly written (the script), well directed, well acted movie....a good cop chasing bad guys movie which works.The script is very spare....unneeded words and scenes are not there. The movie moves from start to finish.Steve McQueen's facial closeups are a very important part of the success of this movie. He was a true movie star, a magnetic personality always interesting to watch in all ways....no other movie he ever made has as many high quality closeups of his face, which is riveting.The opening credits done by Pablo Ferro Films are notable, and one of the reasons the movie gets off to a good start and makes friends early with the audience.The credits are creative, interesting, compelling, and a bit eerie in a good way.....they are truly part of the movie, and that is almost never true of most credits (which may explain why many recent movies dispense with credits at the start of the film almost completely and delay credits until after the story is complete.The end of the movie outdoor chase at the San Francisco CA USA nighttime airport with Steve McQueen chasing the main villain under passing large planes doesn't quite work, and is the only major flaw in an otherwise very well done movie.This is probably Steve McQueen's very best movie, and he did several movies of very high quality both as regards his actor work and other aspects of his movies.Here is some information about the history of the world premiere of "Bullitt" (1968), which took place in San Francisco, California USA where the movie was shot during the Spring of 1968.....I was hired in late Fall 1968 to assist the publicity team for the Warner Bros. field office in San Francisco, CA USA which premiered BULLITT (1968).Warner Brothers HQ in NYC, NY USA (adminstrative offices for WB were in NYC, and NOT in Hollywood, where the studio was located....interestingly the studio had nothing to do with BULLITT (1968), shot entirely on location) set up a national "press junket" to promote BULLITT (1968) and invited major newspaper and other media reporters who covered and reviewed movies to San Francisco CA USA for the opening of BULLITT (1968) in November 1968.Warner Bros. and other major studios traditionally did this for openings of major movies, and paid all travel and local expenses for invited media coverage guests.Major Warner Bros. executives were flown to SF CA USA, and so were other employees working for Warner Brothers, especially regional publicity staff workers located in major cities around the USA, as well as the Warner Brothers publicity staff from the WB studio in Hollywood.Steve McQueen flew up to SF CA USA from Hollywood where in late 1968 he was engaged in shooting THE REIVERS (1969), a movie where he starred in a famous William Faulkner authored comedy story set in Mississippi at the turn of the last century (c. 1900).McQueen entered the movie house in the SF CA USA "cow hollow" area where the movie was premiered, and personally welcomed and addressed the gathered VIP visitors.His hair was uncharacteristically shaggy due to the part he played in THE REIVERS.He urged VIP visitors to pay particular attention to "our great chase scene" in the movie, and clearly regarded that as the high point of the movie."Bullitt" (1968) actually has three chase scenes....two on foot and one in cars....he meant the one in the cars (chases on foot occurred in a large hospital before the car chase, and also at the SF Airport after the car chase).BULLITT (1968) was produced by a movie production Steve McQueen owned called "Solar Productions" which was headed by Robert Relyea, also present during the BULLITT (1968) premiere opening activity.After the screening BULLITT (1968) for the VIP audience, several parties were set up in various sections of San Francisco CA USA to which official guests and others were invited.The entire BULLITT (1968) San Francisco CA USA movie premiere event held during October 1968 was exceedingly and intentionally glamorous.Many of the executives working for Warner Brothers who had organized the BULLITT 1968 SF CA USA premiere event were then old enough to have participated in "Golden Age" Hollywood movie glamor premiere events common in the 1930's and 1940's, but which had become far less frequent by the late 1960's as the studio system and power of the 1930's "Golden Age" lessened and became less impressive.People in 1968 still dressed elegantly, men still wore suits and ties to work routinely, and the informal dress and grooming of the 1960's counter cultural revolution had not yet made its way into mainstream culture.People were still formal, and especially during high profile social and cultural events like the BULLITT (1968) world premiere movie opening, regarded probably as the biggest single social event in San Francisco, CA USA during 1968.-------------------------Written by Tex Allen, SAG Actor.

It's one of the good classic movies that entertained us from the day.Was good to see it again in this modern day.

Time has hardly aged this gem from arguably the peak of Steve McQueen's career, and the special edition is a must have for the fantastic extras it brings with it.While the plot is at times hard to follow, the style and cool that McQueen and director Yates bring to the movie makes it an eternal treat, regardless of how late 60's fashions have changed since.From the moment we hear Lalo Schifrin's distinctive and oft copied jazzy score, we know we are in for something a little different to today's thrillers. For a start, there is not really very much action. There are really only 3 set piece action scenes - the 10 second slaying of the witness who is essentially the `maguffin' of the movie, and of course the famous car chase, and then the final chase and shootout on foot at an airport (copied, or at least homaged by, Michael Mann for his ending of `Heat'). What really makes the movie tick is the coolness and style. For large parts of the movie, events are very procedural, and yet McQueen's star presence makes the mundane absorbing. He was a man who famously knew how to work a camera.. if he could do without lines, he would let the camera do the same job with his face instead. He was generous in allowing other actors say all his lines, knowing the camera would be watching him - especially in this movie, in which he played a large part in bringing to the screen. Even watching him getting in and out of a car is an exercise in effortless cool.Of course, it does not end there - the supporting cast are excellent, even Robert Vaughn shines as the slimy politician alternately looking for a fall-guy or a collaborator, depending on how things are going. The only note that seems discordant is the inclusion of the admittedly gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset, who seems included as prop rather than to bring the story along.Modern and younger audiences may find the pace slow, but patience is well rewarded with a movie you can remember afterwards for many of its little moments.What makes this DVD an essential buy rather than just a recommendation, is the superb second disc. When they say `the movie and more', they were not kidding. The movie gets a commentary, enough to do it credit without the filler material we see so often on special edition. The second disc however, has two 1 ½ hour documentaries, `Steve McQueen: The essence of Cool', and `The Cutting Edge: The magic of movie editing'.Their relation to the movie is as at best tangential, and how much you enjoy these will depend on your depth of interest in moviemaking.The first is a Ted Turner produced biography of McQueen's life in movies. Using his movies as a chronological guide through his life, we see a plethora of friends, family, directors and actors talk about their experiences with him, and their memories flesh out his origins and life as well as his career. In using the movies as a guide, we really see how his troubled personal life influenced his performance on screen and in the movie choices he made. Best contribution is probably from his first wife, but it is also a treat to see an elderly Robert Vaughn and Eli Wallach reminisce over their Magnificent 7 days.Second is a fantastic documentary on movie editing. This is a thorough and revealing look at the art of editing and its impact on modern movies. We are presented with a history right from the first Lumiere pictures at the turn of the Century, through the various significant changes in movie editing through the years, documented by a large variety of Oscar winning editors and directors. First class introduction to a fascinating subject.In short, a good movie recalling the high point of the career of a real Hollywood star, but made an essential purchase by not one but two fascinating documentaries.

Sûrement un de ses meilleurs, la course poursuite dans LA entre la dodge charger et la mustang, avec MC queen au volant reste mythique. A conserver dans la liste courte des blu-ray à avoir. Si mon commentaire vous a été utile lors de votre achat merci de me laisser un j'aime et si vous avez des questions n'hésitez pas à me contacter je réponds rapidement

Bullitt... Je me souviens ne pas l'avoir particulièrement aimé quand je l'ai vu pour la première fois. J'étais jeune, très jeune. Une quinzaine d'années, guère plus. Je me suis risqué à le prendre et je suis conquis. J'ai même poussé l'audace plus loin en le regardant en VOSTF parce que la qualité était meilleur : 5.1 en VO contre 2.1 en français.C'est bluffant. Et les bass à fond pour la myhtique poursuite entre la Ford Mustang de McQueen et la Dodge Charger des méchants. Un régal. On oubliera vite le petit faux-raccord lors de la poursuite qui passe quasiment inaperçu mais qui m'a fait sourire. N'oublions pas que le film est de 1968. Un peu d'indulgence... Un vrai bonheur que je conseille.

Der erfahrene Lieutenant Frank Bullit (fabelhaft: Steve McQueen) erhält von dem mit einem öffentlichen Amt kokettierenden Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) den Auftrag, übers Wochenende einen Kronzeugen vor einem Syndikat zu beschützen. Dieser ist in einem Hotel in der Stadt abgestiegen, wo ein dreiköpfiges Team um Bullit noch denkt, dass dies ein Routinejob sei. Als der Ermittler von einem seiner Kollegen mitternachts aus dem Bett geklingelt wird, ist es längst zu spät: Killer dringen ins Appartement ein und verwunden Wachposten und Zeuge schwer. Bullit jagt jetzt die Täter...Man kann "Bullit" unmöglich Ästhetik absprechen. Und dank der Blu - ray, die sich im Vergleich zur DVD technisch gewaltig verbessert zeigt, hat man nunmehr ein Format gefunden, welches den Film optisch jetzt noch genialer aussehen lässt. Genauso chic wie das Bild ist der Austragungsort. In San Francisco gedrehte Spielfilme verfügen jedes Mal über einen spezifischen Flair und "Bullit" macht da keine Ausnahme. Es mag an der Architektur der Gebäude, am Stadtbild generell, an der Zeit oder an den Einheimischen liegen, abermals kommt etwas Unverwechselbares dabei raus. Die steilen Straßen mit ihren mächtigen Hügeln sind berühmt. McQueen offenbart in seiner Rolle Kompetenz pur. Er überzeugt schauspielerisch auf ganzer Linie. Als Mime war er nie der redselige Typ, was er stattdessen mit seinem Gesicht fabriziert, ist gnadenlose Effektivität. Man muss die Szene im Krankenhaus, wo er nach dem Attentat mit Robert Vaughn, der ebenso eine Glanzleistung raushämmert, genau wie Jacqueline Bisset als Bullits verträumte Freundin, kommuniziert, gesehen haben: intensive Magie ist das. "Bullit" fokussiert sich auf die polizeiliche Ermittlung und es entsteht ein atmosphärisch dichter Krimi/Thriller, garniert mit exzellenter Kameraarbeit und einiger versprengter Action hier und da. Die Autoverfolgungsjagd ist das treffendste Beispiel und allein wegen der zwei wunderschönen amerikanischen Muscle Cars ein echtes Erlebnis.Erfreulicherweise wurden die Extras der DVD auf die Blu - ray übernommen. Fans des viel zu früh verstorbenen McQueen, der keine leichte Kindheit hatte, sei besonders die 90 - minütige, deutsch untertitelte Dokumentation 'Steve McQueen: Die Coolness in Person` ans Herz gelegt. Dort erfährt man Wissenswertes über die Privatperson, seine steile, kurze Karriere, den kometenhaften Aufstieg in den frühen 60er - Jahren, das relative Abflauen des Kults, das Anfang/Mitte des 1970er einsetzte, seinen frühen Tod im Jahre 1980 und garantiert viel mehr.

Lieutenant Frank Bullitt ist Cop beim SFPD.Er und die Detectives Delgetti und Stanton bekommen vom Staatsanwalt den Auftrageinen Kronzeugen zu bewachen, dass dieser in zwei Tagen vor Gericht aussagen kann.Bei Stantons Wache werden er und der Zeuge Ross von zwei Killern niedergeschossen.Bullitt macht nun Jagd auf die Killer, doch es kommt noch viel schlimmer........Darsteller:Steve McQueen: Lt. Frank BullittRobert Vaughn: Walter ChalmersJacqueline Bisset: CathyDon Gordon: Sgt. DelgettiRobert Duvall: TaxifahrerSimon Oakland: Captain Sam BennettNorman Fell: Captain BakerGeorg Stanford Brown: Dr. WillardPat Renella: John E. Ross------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Steve McQueen spielt hier den wortkargen Cop Frank Bullitt, der sich weder von seinen Vorgesetzten,noch vom Staatsanwalt einschüchtern läßt.Es ist ein typischer Krimi aus den 68ern, der auch einige Längen aufweißt, ebenso wie Logiklöcherund etwas Wirres, dass man sich langsam zusammenreimen kann.Natürlich auch die vielbesprochene und zitierte, ca. 10minütige Verfolgungsjagd durch San Francisco, die schonKultstatus besitzt.Der Film bekommt drei Sterne, doch ein Stern extra für den Bonus: Steve McQueen: Die Coolness in Person.Über Steve McQueen, sein Leben und seine Filme.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Die Bildqualität war sehr gut 1080p High Definition 16x9 (1.85:1)der Ton in Dolby Digital deutsch, Französisch und italienisch in 1.0, englisch und spanisch in 2.0Untertitel in 10 SprachenBonus: kein WendecoverAudiokommentar vom Regisseur Peter Yates,Steve McQueen: Die Coolness in Person,Auf Messers Schneide: die Magie des Filmschnitts in 1080p High Definition und 5.1 Audio,Vintage-Dokumentation: Bullitt: Steve McQueens Streben nach Authentizität,USA-Kinotrailer