Bullitt, Captain Bennett, Chalmers and Captain Baker gather around the telecopier as the applications arrive. Bullitt requests their passport applications from Chicago. While examining the victim's luggage, Bullitt and Delgetti discover a travel brochure for Rome and traveler's checks made out to an Albert and Dorothy Renick. On the way back to San Francisco she confronts Bullitt about his work saying "Frank, you live in a sewer" and wonders "What will happen to us?" Cathy follows him and is left horrified by the scene. At the hotel, Bullitt finds the woman who was phoned garrotted in her room. With no car, Bullitt gets a ride from his girlfriend Cathy.
Bennett ignores the writ because it's the weekend and lets Bullitt investigate the long distance phone call to San Mateo. After being served a writ of habeas corpus, Bullitt reveals that Ross has died. An extended chase ensues through the streets of San Francisco to Brisbane where the Dodge crashes off the road, killing its occupants in a fiery explosion.īullitt and Delgetti are confronted by their boss, Captain Sam Bennett, and Chalmers (who is being assisted by SFPD Captain Baker). While driving his Ford Mustang, Bullitt becomes aware he is being followed by a Dodge Charger driven by the two hitmen. Bullitt also finds out he made a long distance phone call to a hotel in San Mateo. An informant says that Ross was in town because he stole millions of dollars from the mob. Bullitt sends the body to the morgue as a John Doe in order to conceal the death and keep his investigation open. After Bullitt thwarts a second assassination attempt at the hospital, Ross dies from his wounds. Two hitmen burst in shooting Stanton in the leg and Ross in the neck.Ĭhalmers holds Bullitt responsible for the injuries to Ross. At 1am Sunday, while Stanton is phoning Bullitt to say Chalmers and a friend want to come up, Ross unchains the room door. Delgetti will take the first shift, then Stanton and then Bullitt. The detectives are told he is in a cheap hotel on Embarcadero. The next morning SFPD detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his team, Delgetti and Stanton are tasked by Senator Walter Chalmers with guarding Ross over the weekend, until he can be presented as a witness to a Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime on Monday morning. On a Friday night in Chicago mobster Johnny Ross flees the Outfit.
In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Bullitt is also notable for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in movie history. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Keller) and receiving a nomination for Best Sound. 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. 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 score. Fish, writing under the pseudonym Robert L. Trustman and Harry Kleiner was based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness, by Robert L. The picture stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. Bullitt is a 1968 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni.