Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4951 in DVD
• Released on: 1998-09-01
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Arabic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Amazon.co.uk Review
San Francisco has been the setting of many exciting movie car chases over the years but the one in Bullitt is still the one to beat when it comes to high-octane action on the city's steep hills. The outstanding car chase earned an Oscar for best editing but the rest of the movie is pretty good too. This 1968 police thriller 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 a major 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, Amazon.com

Video Description
Special Features

Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer Featurette: "Steve McQueen's Commitment To Reality"
Language in Dolby Surround Stereo: English
Subtitles: English/Arabic/English for the hearing impaired

Customer Reviews

See McQuueen at his uber cool best
Bullitt is the prototype for many a 70's movie and TV series.
Steve McQueen at his uber cool best as the cynical case hardend cop, following the trail of mafia hitmen against a backdrop of political intrigue. Bullitt is the prototype for many a 70's movie and TV series.

This ia a streetwise movie with adult relationships and realistic action: noteably the famous up/down San Frisco car chase which has been copied but never bettered in direction or effect. Mcqueen needs no driving stunt double here - he's the man!

Good support caste not least Jacqeline Blisset (girlfriend) and Robert Vaughn (political wannabe) add depth and character to the essential cop action.

This is an adult rather than boys action movie. The San Frisco locations are familiar yet the cars fashion and the music are a late 60's nostalga trip.

See the McQueen original before its appears in some bloody awful Alec B
Baldwin etc remake and ruins the effect.

Five stars forever!!

the complete chase?
As much as Bullitt is one of the greats, a question must be asked. Is the car chase complete or the edited version from the last VHS restoration?
Answers on a postcard...

Decent car chase stuck in a (now) rather dull film
Made in 1967-8, this Frisco-set movie somehow manages to miss entirely the Haight Ashbury 'Summer of Love'. (There is some pleasant jazz in a cafe scene, but it's certainly not Jefferson Airplane.)

Even measured in today's money, I suspect the typical episode of '24' has more money lavished on it than this film. The film climaxes, as such, with a chase around San Francisco aiport at night, but there's no tension, and frankly I'd given up caring. The plot is fragile -- why do the hitmen assume it just takes one gunshot to the shoulder to finish off their man, then hang around outside the scene of the crime and follow the ambulance to the hospital to finish him off again?

McQueen is good, Bisset is gorgeous, and San Francisco's curious flat-and-hilly road system never looked more precarious. The Saturday morning kid's programme 'Tiswas' used to show the car chase sometimess -- I think they pretty well condensed the movie down to its essence!