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• TCM BROADCAST VERSION? 1/13

  • thurston
  • 1/13/13

  I just saw the broadcast of Bullitt and it looked a bit different from when I first saw Bullit. I was nine years old, but I remember it to this day because I told my best friend, who's name was really was Jon Ross, that the film's bad guy had the same name. He played like a thug for the rest of the day. Tonight's version lacked the closeup strangulation scene by the real Jonny Ross as I remembered it to be pretty gross. Also I missed the 6 hubcaps flying off one of the cars. The Mustang had no hubcaps, but had beauty rings and center caps, so it must of been the Charger. Anybody else notice this editting. I thought TCM showed only original uncut versions?

• Jazzy

  • Rip
  • 1/13/13

  This movie has the best car chase ever, goes without saying, and also has very interesting, under-appreciated musical score. The jazz band in when Bullit and Jackie Bissett are in the restaurant is also very groovy.

• Bullitt

  • Dashiell Barnes
  • 11/2/12

  At the time, this was one of the best police films ever. McQueen excels as the title character of a rouge cop who determines who killed his witness. The Oscar-winning film editing doesn't diminish the famous car chase scene, although by today's standards, that scene has lost some of it's power and the story is very predictable & dull. A film that will be best remembered for McQueen & the car chase scene. I give it a 3.5/5.

• DA BEST

  • DAVID
  • 11/1/12

  When i was 12 Yr's old i seen this movie with my parent's. it always bring's back good memorie's. the car chase is awesome. Enjoy it. Ah when movie's were movie's.

• Prototype Car Chase Scene

  • Bruce Reber
  • 8/4/10

  "Bullitt" (1968), starring Steve McQueen as tough loner San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt looking for syndicate killers, features the car chase scene that set the standard for every film that came after, i.e. "The French Connection" (1971) et al. I've heard that McQueen modeled it after a previous film he saw that director Peter Yates made (I think it was called "Robbery"). The scene starts as Bullitt gets into his 1968 green Ford Mustang fastback and spots the two bad guys in their 1968 Dodge Charger. For the first couple of minutes the bad guys are following Bullitt, but then the Charger driver sees the Mustang in his rear view mirror, and now Bullitt is following them. The the chase starts when the Charger peels out burning rubber, and the two cars are in a high-speed edge-of-your seat chase through the streets and up and down the hills of San Francisco. One of the hitmen tries to nail Bullitt with a shotgun, but he runs them off the road and into a gasoline storage tank, with the Charger and the bad guys exploding in a ball of fire, and Bullitt's Mustang with many dents and a broken front axle. An effort should be made to locate the Bullitt Mustang (I heard that it's been sitting in a barn in New Jersey for a long time) and restore it to the condition it was in when McQueen drove it in the film. It should be put on permanent display in the Hollywood Car Museum that has cars from film and TV. The 1968 Highland Green Mustang fastback is truly a piece of film history.

• Bullitt (1968)

  • Jay Higgins
  • 7/19/09

  Very exciting action thriller and it has one of the best car chase scenes ever filmed. The editing is among the best ever. Suspenseful, good job by Steve McQueen.

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