Watch: Bullitt 1968 123movies, Full Movie Online – San Francisco Police Lieutenant Bullitt’s tasked by ambitious Walter Chalmers, to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago mobster who’s about to turn evidence against the organisation. Chalmers wants Ross’ safety at all cost, or else Bullitt will pay the consequences..
Plot: Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal’s hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
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Modern directors should take note of the style.
What a change of pace this movie is as compared with its genre today. I’m no old fogey but would that modern directors become smart enough take several pages from its book.The Bullit character is a precursor of Dirty Harry but a bit more cerebral. Stylistically, the director sets the stage beautifully for McQueen’s Bullit. The movie has a European feel (director Peter Yates is a Brit) and achieves its dark mood through quiet understatement. The musical score for instance. Today, music is overly used, overly loud and manipulative. (i.e. in case you are not moved by this scene, here are a division of amplified violins to remind you to weep). In ‘Bullit’ the music is sparingly used and doesn’t intrude at all. It complements the directorial style without setting the agenda.
The feeling of reserved naturalism is achieved through editing and dialogue. There really aren’t very many lines in the movie and when characters do speak they are very succinct. Notice the last 15-20 minutes of the movie, most of which takes place at the airport. Hardly a line in it. There is none of the chattiness so prevalent today (especially post “Pulp Fiction”) which is so tedious (unless the script is tip-top, which is rare).
Editing is, perhaps, its greatest strong point. The many long edits deserve equal credit with the dialogue in setting the low-key mood. The cinema verite dialogue of the airport scenes (and, say, the scene where McQueen and Don Gordon search the trunk) combined with the long cuts add greatly to understated feel while adding realism.
And the performances are top notch. The spare script helps McQueen shine since the taciturn moodiness fits his persona to a tee. There are very fine performances from all of the supporting cast, from Don Gordon to Bisset to Fell to Duvall to Oakland. This is a great movie for watching faces. Note the expressions of the hit men during the chase scene (just another example of this movie letting the little touches speak volumes).
The chase scene certainly deserves its billing as one of the best in movie history. Recently, ‘The Transporter’ was lauded for its opening chase sequence. The one in ‘Bullit’ is a marvel compared. In ‘The Transporter’ sequence I’m not sure there is a cut that lasts more than three seconds. In ‘Bullit’ it is again the editing which sets it apart here. The long edits give you the feel of acceleration and deceleration, of tire smoke and gears, of wind and the roller coaster San Francisco streets. You are given the time to place yourself in the frame. In short, ‘Bullit’ uses real craftsmanship. Films like ‘The Transporter’ use hundreds of quick edits to mimic the danger and immediacy of ‘Bullit’ but it comes across as hot air, confusion instead of clarity. The two scenes are perfect set pieces of easy (and hollow) Mtv-style flash versus real directorial substance.
The real king……
McQueen was really the King of Cool. I have read many comments here about this film, and some say it is slow, some say it is an action thriller. Thrilling it is! Steve did not have to jabber in every scene to dominate this film. The car chase is unequaled to this day. How can anything on the road in later years compare to the “muscle cars” of the late 60s? But Steve was the star, make no mistake, and even though the dialogue was minimal, it was enough. Steve McQueen had that power on the screen. He remains one of Hollywood’s best, even though he passed away over twenty years ago. We will not see the likes of him for many more years. Women loved him, men loved him too. If you have not seen many of his films, watch any you can. Watch him in Tom Horn (1980), and Papillon (1973). Try The Getaway (1972), Junior Bonner (1972)and the humorous The Reivers (1969). Of course, The Sand Pebbles (1966) , The Great Escape (1963), and the ever classic The Magnificent Seven(1960) are among his most popular films. You never go wrong with any of these.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 5500000
Revenue 42300873
Status Released
Rated M/PG
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Peter Yates
Writer Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish
Actors Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex SR, Mitchell NC
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,110 m (Sweden), 3,130 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm