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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1968 DVD Release: 11/19/1997 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan,Soft-Matted WSE for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Thriller, Action Thriller, Chase Movie, Police Detective Film See Also: Bullitt [Special Edition Collector's Box], Bullitt [Signed Limited Edition Box], Bullitt [With BBQ Book], Bullitt [With Golf Book], Bullitt [Blu-ray], Bullitt [HD DVD]

Robert L. Pike's crime novel -Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins with Bullitt assigned to a seemingly routine detail, protecting mafia informant Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), who is scheduled to testify against his Mob cronies before a Senate subcommittee in San Francisco. But when a pair of hitmen ambush their secret location, fatally wounding Ross, things don't add up for Bullitt, so he decides to investigate the case on his own. Unfortunately for him, ambitious senator Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn), the head of the aforementioned subcommittee, wants to shut his investigation down, hindering Bullitt's plan to not only bring the killers to justice but discover who leaked the location of the hideout. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Steve McQueen - Frank Bullitt
Robert Vaughn - Chalmers
Jacqueline Bisset - Cathy
Don Gordon - Delgetti
Robert Duvall - Weissberg

Just about every "lonely guy" cop flick, from Dirty Harry to Black Rain, owes a debt to Peter Yates' Bullitt, even if few of its imitators live up to the comparison. Centered by Steve McQueen's defining performance in the title role, the movie's step-by-step, "just the facts, ma'am" approach is hypnotic. Even a scene as seemingly irrelevant to the plot as McQueen shopping for TV dinners is completely transfixing. While this Warner DVD release of the stylish police procedural isn't perfect, it still stacks up nicely when placed against the video version. The anamorphic widescreen remastering is a little uneven from scene to scene, but it shows off William Fraker's exquisite location photography. The audio track has been spruced up to Digital Dolby Surround 2.0 and Lalo Schifrin's popular jazz score sounds great; the audio work is about as good as viewers are going to get from a movie shot in 1968. The original "making of" documentary is a hoot (it's even more hardboiled than the movie), but an audio commentary from Yates, Fraker, or editor Frank Keller (who won an Academy Award for his fine work here) would have been nice. Warner has also released a collector's set DVD of Bullitt. The DVD is the same, but it comes stocked with extras such as lobby cards, the shooting script, and a movie poster. This disc is perfect for Steve McQueen fanatics. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide