Additional information for Bullitt, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 17, 1968. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. Bullitt has a total running time of 114 minutes.
12
Iceland
M/12
Portugal
Atp
Argentina
14
Brazil
M
Australia
G
Japan
M
New Zealand
PG
South Africa
14A
Canada
K-16
Finland
16
Norway
PG
Singapore
15
Sweden
AA
UK
PG
USA
16
West Germany
114min
Bullitt
Austria
Bullitt
Brazil
Bullitt
Denmark
Bullitt
Finland
Bullitt
France
Bullitt
Greece
Bullitt
Poland
Bullitt
West Germany
Bullit
Mexico
Bullit
Spain
A chicagoi tanú
Hungary
Bulit
Serbia
Bullituv prípad
Czechoslovakia
Gangsterin kaderi
Turkey
San Franciscó-i zsaru
Hungary
October 17, 1968
USA
November 25, 1968
Brazil
December 19, 1968
Sweden
December 26, 1968
Norway
December 28, 1968
Japan
January 03, 1969
West Germany
January 10, 1969
Austria
January 17, 1969
Finland
January 30, 1969
Belgium
February 13, 1969
Netherlands
February 27, 1969
Hong Kong
March 03, 1969
Denmark
March 17, 1969
France
April 05, 1969
Italy
April 30, 1969
Spain
May 22, 1969
Mexico
January , 1970
Turkey
October 07, 1999
USA
July 05, 2006
France
May 11, 2008
UK
Steve McQueen As 'Bullitt'
The word 'cop' isn't written all over him - something more puzzling is.
There are bad cops and there are good cops - and then there's Bullitt.
"BULLITT comes to this theatre soon. That ought to shake up the place pretty good. Not many freaky cops like BULLITT around. You look at the Italian shoes and the turtleneck and you have to wonder. You listen to the official beefs about 'personal misconduct', 'disruptive influence', you figure he's got to be up for trade. But when some rare Chicago blood starts spilling in San Francisco, they give BULLITT the mop. They weren't exactly doing him a favour. But they've done a great big one for you"
Detective Lt. Frank Bullitt - some other kind of cop. Pity the guy he works for.
It is a Friday night in April 1968 in Chicago. Johnny Ross works with his brother Pete; both are involved with organized crime, and the mob is after Johnny Ross because he siphoned off $2 million of their money. Johnny escapes a mass of gunmen outside his office, then greets Pete in the garage of their office building. The two exchange brotherly greetings and go on their way - Johnny drives past yet another attempt on his life while Pete telephones his higher-up that Johnny escaped.Saturday afternoon in San Francisco. A man goes to a hotel and asks the desk clerk for a message from Johnny Ross, and is surprised that no message is there. The man takes a cab and has the driver stop by a phone booth, where the man makes a pair of calls, one of them long-distance. At that point, Sgt. Don Delgetti of the SFPD awakens his partner, Detective Lt. Frank Bullitt, at his apartment. Bullitt has been trying to get some sleep after a case that stretched to 5 AM that morning and grumpily chats with his partner.After showering and getting dressed, Frank Bullitt is driven by Delgetti and another policeman, Sgt. Carl Stanton, to the plush mansion of politician Walter Chalmers, who is entertaining a vast pool of guests at a function. Chalmers tells Frank of a star witness who will testify against the mob - Johnny Ross - and who needs protection through his appearence to testify on Monday morning. Chalmers clearly hopes to use Ross as well as Bullitt to the benefit of his political career, and leaves Frank and his two partners to guard Ross at the Hotel Daniels, a flophouse near an overpassing highway.Frank, Delgetti, and Stanton meet the man who had inquired about a Johnny Ross letter, and the man is puzzled about Chalmers putting him up in this cheap hotel. After phoning his boss, Captain Samuel Bennett, Frank arranges three shifts to guard Ross, with Delgetti going first, then Stanton, then Bullitt. But at 1 AM the following morning Stanton gets a call from the Hotel Daniels front desk claiming that Chalmers and a friend want to see them. Stanton has the two men wait, then calls Frank, who realizes something is wrong and rushes to the Hotel Daniels. Stanton then notices the door to their room is unlocked, just as the two men - a 5' 10" white-haired shotgun killer and his back-up man - kick the door open and shoot both he and Ross.Delgetti and ambulances arrive before Frank does, and Frank accompanies Stanton in the ambulance ride to the hospital, where the injured officer describes the gunman, identifies the gun brand (a Winchester pump-action shotgun), and relates that Ross unlocked the door, to the puzzlement of Frank.Captain Bennett arrives at the hospital after getting a report on the hotel from the SFPD crime lab, and after getting what he can from Frank warns him that Chalmers is livid upon learning of this fiasco and will try to lay the blame on the department in general and Bullitt in particular. Bullitt for his part is ready when Chalmers arrives and questions him; Frank turns the table by inquiring about Chalmers' deal with Ross, but the oily politician vows to ruin Frank's career if Ross dies - even to the point of requesting a different doctor be assigned to Ross.A white-haired man - the shotgun killer - appears at the hospital and asks a doctor about a friend of his with a gunshot wound; the doctor tells him that it might be the man on the second floor (Ross), then phones Bullitt. Frank has a policeman guard Ross' room, and when a nurse catches the shotgun killer untaping an icepick from his leg, Frank chases him through the hospital but he escapes.More bad news arrives when Ross suddenly goes into respiratory failure and dies. Frank tells the doctor not to confirm Ross' death, as Chalmers will ruin both of them plus the killers, upon knowing they've succeeded, will disappear; the doctor agrees to misplace Ross' files and Frank has Delgetti take Ross' body under the name John Doe to the coroner's office.While Frank goes home to shower and get some rest, Chalmers, accompanied by a posse of assistants and police Captain Baker, arrives at the hospital and immediately demands to know Ross' location. He telephones Bullitt and gets the runaround, and tells Baker to punish Bullitt for this.Frank and Delgetti, meanwhile, question the Hotel Daniels desk clerk who'd been slugged by the killers. They get a description of the cab Ross arrived in as well as a description of the driver; Frank deduces who drove Ross and rides with the cabbie in question and learns about Ross' phone calls. Frank telephones Eddy, an informant, and they arrange a meeting in an alley, where Eddy tells Frank about the mob's pursuit of Ross and what they're after him for.Chalmers, meanwhile, intercepts Captain Bennett and serves him with a legal writ, duly witnessed by two of Chalmers' aides-de-camp, requiring Bennett to turn in Ross by Monday morning.After being dropped off at his own car - a Ford Mustang - Frank notices that a black Dodge Charger has been following him around the city. He drives about some of the hilly side streets and eludes his pursuers enough to become the pursuer himself. The two mob assassins, realizing they've been outmaneuvered, make a break and a mad high-speed pursuit ensues through the hills of the city and eventually spilling onto a two-lane freeway. The shotgun man finally opens fire on Frank but Frank rams his Mustang into the Charger as they approach a gas station/repair shop; the Charger flies off the road, plows through the gas station, and explodes as pumps are sheared off, killing both gunmen.Frank and Delgetti are now angrilly questioned by Bennett and Baker and Frank reveals Ross' death, and that a check of phone records shows that Ross called a woman, Dorothy Simmons, staying in a San Mateo hotel hours before his death. Bennett holds the legal writ until Monday morning, giving Frank one day to prove the two men killed in the gas station were Ross' killers. He is driven to the San Mateo hotel, but he finds the woman dead, and later a search of luggage reveals that she had a man with her and that both of them had books of travelers checks worth tens of thousands of dollars; moreover, the woman is not Dorothy Simmons but Dorothy Rennick, and the man she is with is her husband Albert.Delgetti calls Chicago to fax passport information to the SFPD while Frank gets a fingerprint check on Ross at the cororner's office. The fax printout comes through and Bullitt shows that Chalmers had the wrong man the whole time. Frank and Delgetti now must comb the San Francisco Airport to find the real Ross while Chalmers, determined to take in the real Ross himself, follows. Frank manages to stop the plane Ross is on before departing, and identifies Ross by his expression and actions. Ross jumps off the plane and runs across the runway, with Frank pursuing. Ross runs back into the terminal as Delgetti arrives with a security guard. Ross tries to shoot his way out, but Frank kills him. Chalmers leaves, disgusted that he's lost his star witness.Frank returns home, where his wife is sleeping, and starts to wash his hands.
Peter Yates
Director(s)
Alan Trustman
Harry Kleiner
Robert L. Fish
Writer(s)
Philip D'Antoni
producer
Robert E. Relyea
executive producer
Producer(s)
Lalo Schifrin
Composer(s)
Bullitt
Steve McQueen
Cathy
Jacqueline Bisset
Chalmers
Robert Vaughn
Delgetti
Don Gordon
Captain Bennet
Simon Oakland
Baker
Norman Fell
Weissberg
Robert Duvall
Dr. Willard
Georg Stanford Brown
Eddy
Justin Tarr
Carl Stanton
Carl Reindel
Renick
Felice Orlandi
Pete Ross (as Victor Tayback)
Vic Tayback
1st Aide
Robert Lipton
Westcott
Ed Peck
John Ross
Pat Renella
Mike
Paul Genge
Killer
John Aprea
Desk Clerk
Al Checco
Phil
Bill Hickman
Airport Information Agent (uncredited)
Mal Alberts
Man (uncredited)
Scott Beach
Voice (uncredited)
Mary Benoit
Nurse (uncredited)
Barbara Bosson
Man (uncredited)
Roger Bowen
Woman (uncredited)
Joy Carlin
Mrs. Dorothy Rennick (uncredited)
Brandy Carroll
Bit Part (uncredited)
Joanna Cassidy
Party Guest (uncredited)
Julie Christy
Uniformed Courtesy Officer (uncredited)
Robert Cleaves
Cop (uncredited)
Tony Dario
Policeman (uncredited)
Michael L. Davis
Captain Brady (uncredited)
Jim Demarest
Airport counterperson (uncredited)
Chuck Dorsett
Clerk (uncredited)
Thomas Duncan
Mrs. Larkin (uncredited)
Marjorie Eaton
Voice (uncredited)
Walker Edmiston
Voice (uncredited)
Sam Edwards
Woman (uncredited)
Mimi Farina
Mrs. Bennett (uncredited)
Shirley Fitzgerald
Bully Cop (uncredited)
Dick Geary
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
Director(s)
Harry Kleiner
Robert L. Fish
Writer(s)
producer
Robert E. Relyea
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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