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Bullitt is a 1968 police thriller film starring Steve McQueen. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel titled Mute Witness (1963) by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike). Lalo Schifrin wrote the original music score, a memorable mix of jazz, brass and percussion.
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The Steve McQueen movie Bullitt was filmed in and around San Francisco in late April 1968. It featured a tremendous amount of on-location filming. Best remembered for the car-chase, the progenitor of all subsequent movie car chases, Bullitt is an excellent film. Below are some photos of places featured in the film as they appeared in 1968, and more recently in July and September of 2002.
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Historically, the Bullitt Foundation has addressed crucial elements in all these areas. However, in recent years, numerous foundations have focused new resources on the first two realms: protection of wild lands and restoration of damaged natural systems. As a consequence, the Bullitt Foundation’s future work will primarily be focused on the human environment and at the interface of human communities with the natural world.
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In 1926 Bullitt published a novel that sold some 150,000 copies. In the late 1920s Bullitt, who had been a patient of Freud's, began a collaborative study with Freud on Wilson, who both authors, for different reasons, hated. It has remained a curiosity how Freud and Bullitt came to write such a polemical assault, using psychoanalytic concepts, in their book on Wilson. It is still unknown who wrote which sections. Part of the scholarly problem has stemmed from Bullitt's fascination with intrigue; Freud privately complained about Bullitt's secretiveness shortly after the manuscript was completed. The book on Wilson may be one of the first efforts at psychological history, but it was so partisan as to have damaged the case for using psychology to understand political leaders.
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Bullitt and his men, Sergeant Delgetti (Don Gordon) and Inspector Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel), give Ross around-the-clock protection at the Hotel Daniels, a cheap flophouse near an overhead freeway during separate shifts. Before Ross enters the hotel, he makes several phone calls. Saturday night, while Stanton is guarding him, the desk clerk calls and says Chalmers and a friend are there and want to come to the room. Stanton calls Bullitt at home, and is told not to let them in; Bullitt surmises that Chalmers would not show up at one in the morning. In the meantime, Ross walks over to the door and unlocks it. A pair of hit-men, Mike and Phil (played by stunt driver Bill Hickman), then burst into the room and Mike shoots Inspector Stanton in the leg with a shotgun blast. He then turns and shoots Ross, hitting him in the chest and face.
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Back at the police station, Bullitt begins to check out Dorothy Simmons, the woman Johnny Ross called in San Mateo. He needs a car, but one is not available at the station. His architect girlfriend, Cathy (played by Bisset), drives him to the suburban motel, where he discovers the woman has been murdered via strangulation. After seeing a marked patrol car arrive at the motel with its siren blaring, Cathy gets out of the car and follows the officers into the crime scene, where she sees the murder victim. She is upset almost tramatized at the sight of the strangled eyes still open woman. Bullitt sees her and they leave.
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