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DVD Bullitt (Two-Disc Special Edition)
San Francisco has been the setting of a lot of exciting movie car chases over the years, but this 1968 police thriller is still the one to beat when it comes to high-octane action on the steep hills of the city by the Bay. The outstanding car chase earned an Oscar for best editing, but the rest of the movie is pretty good, too. Bullitt is a perfect star vehicle for cool guy Steve McQueen, who stars as a tenacious detective (is there any other kind?) determined to track down the killers of the star witness in an important trial. Director Peter Yates (Breaking Away) approached the story with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, using a variety of San Francisco locations. Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Duvall appear in early roles, and Robert Vaughn plays the criminal kingpin who pulls the deadly strings of the tightly wound plot. --Jeff Shannon
The thing about Bullitt is that it didn't make Steve McQueen, oddly enough it refined him. He had come from humble beginnings and by 1968, was a superstar playing in the haunting and then sexy Thomas Crown Affair. (Less flesh than the remake; more believable ending; better actors.)
Here he is the soft spoken hard as nails San Francisco Police Detective. I would argue that McQueen's role not only influences the future 'detective' genre but the novelist's detective such as Parker's Spenser as well. Quiet. Intelligent. Above it all. Relentless. With a private life that doesn't always hold together.
He guards a witness that he loses and can't figure out why. Of course it's the overacted Walter Chalmers by Robert Vaughn who is the key. Strangely enough McQueen and Vaughn crossed paths earlier in "The Magnificent Seven," the early vehicle for Charles Bronson et al.
Bullitt even has a small part for Duvall, who also had a small part as Boo Radley in "Mockingbird," and then of course he took off. Great dialogue possibly typified by the times, odd times for movies, Vietnam, music, hippies, counter culture and a whole lot of other things. And, with the possible exception of Petersen's car chase in the little known "To Live and Die in LA," maybe the greatest car chase film ever, with McQueen's beautiful 390 GT Mustang versus the Dodge Charger. (Did you catch Ford's 2005 commercial on the Mustange remake re-release with the driver tossing the keys to a morphed McQueen? Brilliant although maybe too limited in its audience.)
5 stars. We miss you Steve. Larry Scantlebury
Dodge R/T & Mustang GT
This movie is an excellent movie, it filled with suspense and the car chase scene is the best I've ever seen even by today's standard. The sound track is very darn good too, even though it this film was shot in the late 60s (1968 to be exact) they did a very good job of remastering the sound track. The picture quality is superb.
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great film !! love the mustang...this is how police films should be
Art film and road movie collide for Vanishing Point, an existential car chase across the desert in a post Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a taciturn driver who bets that he can drive a new Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He loads up on amphetamines and begins his odyssey through the contemporary west while a funky black DJ (Cleavon Little) turns the driver into a folk hero and broadcasts advice on dodging the cops. It's like a counterculture precursor to Smokey and the Bandit, with the road as the last bastion of freedom and the DJ as a combination commentator and mystical guide. The slim plot offers a network of society drop-outs that aid the "last free Man on Earth" (as the DJ describes him) on his obscure but obviously... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard C. Sarafian DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A classic auto-racing movie starring Steve McQueen, Le Mans puts the audience in the driver's seat for what is often called the most grueling race in the world. The French auto race Le Mans is a 24-hour affair through the French countryside, a demanding ordeal for any driver. McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape) plays the American driver, locked in an intense grudge match with his German counterpart even as he wrestles with the guilt over causing an accident that cost the life of a close friend. McQueen is his usual stoic magnetic self, and the racing sequences are among the best ever committed to film. A solid character-driven story combines with raw visceral power to make Le Mans a rich tapestry of action and thrills. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Lee H. Katzin DVD Release Date: Released the 29 April 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Steve McQueen - Ali MacGraw Director(s): Sam Peckinpah DVD Release Date: Released the 18 November 1997 Usually ships within 24 hours
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The Great Escape image of Steve McQueen (as "The Cooler King") astride his motorcycle has entered silver-screen iconography, alongside Brando on his bike from The Wild One. Based on a true story about a group of POWs who mount a daring breakout from a supposedly inescapable Nazi prison camp, this rousing and suspenseful WWII epic features an all-star cast, including James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and David McCallum. The DVD also includes a 24-minute documentary about the making of the film. --Jim EmersonMore Info about this DVD Director(s): John Sturges DVD Release Date: Released the 31 March 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When car nut and aspiring B movie maverick H.B. "Toby" Halicki released his debut film, he gave top billing to his car, a yellow 1973 Ford Mustang named Eleanor. That's a good indication of Halicki's priorities in the original car-crunching, tire-squealing drive-in classic Gone in 60 Seconds. Halicki wrote, produced, starred, and did all of his own extraordinary stunt driving in the picture, the story of a career car thief who makes a deal to steal 48 cars for an overseas smuggler. OK, it's not Shakespeare. The plot is perfunctory at best, and Halicki's all thumbs when it comes to directing his wooden cast, but he gives a crash course in the mechanics of the car-theft biz and tops it off with one of the greatest car chases of all time: a 40-minute finale that roars through five Los... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): H.B. Halicki - Marion Busia Director(s): H.B. Halicki DVD Release Date: Released the 28 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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