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The Bullitt Movie Plot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt
Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is about to hold a Senate Subcommittee hearing in San Francisco on organized crime in the United States.
To improve his political standing, Chalmers hopes to interrogate key state's witness Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), who has represented himself as a Chicago defector from the "organization".
Chalmers hopes to introduce his surprise witness, whom he will question in the subcommittee's public hearings.
At Chalmers's request, Ross is put under protective custody on Friday evening, supposed to be kept in for 3 days until Monday morning, when he is supposed to testify at court.
Lieutenant Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), Sgt Delgetti (Don Gordon) and Det. Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel), are assigned to give Ross around-the-clock protection at the Hotel Daniels, a cheap flophouse near the Embarcadero Freeway.
Late Saturday night, Ross inexplicably unchains the hotel room door. Before his young police protector Stanton can react, a pair of hitmen (Paul Genge and Bill Hickman) burst into the room and shoot Stanton and Ross, seriously wounding both.
Bullitt wants to investigate the shooting in the hotel, while Chalmers attempts to place blame for injury to his witness on Bullitt and the San Francisco P.D to avoid a media scandal.
Subsequently, Bullitt thwarts a second assassination attempt on the hospitalized Ross, although he shortly dies of his wounds from the initial hotel-room shotgunning.
Bullitt suppresses this news of his death, sneaking the man's body out of the hospital and sending it to the morgue as a John Doe, hoping to draw out the assassins.
Beginning the investigation anew, Bullitt goes to a confidential informant to get the “lowdown” on just who Ross was and why a high-priority mob hit had been ordered on him.
Bullitt is also made suspicious by the fact that Ross had unchained the door to the hotel room just prior to the shooting.
Ross had been apparently expecting someone whom he wanted to assist in entering his hotel room, but to Ross’ surprise the intruders were a professional contract murder team.
Bullitt learns the real reason for the hit on Ross from his North Beach informant.
It turns out that the Organization has been looking for and trying to assassinate Johnny Ross for several days.
They had first tried to kill him while he was still in Chicago. When that attempt failed, Ross fled unharmed to San Francisco.
The West Coast mob is reportedly assisting with the Chicago Outfit in looking all over the city for Ross, and has all the transport outlets covered.
It is progressively revealed that the 'Ross' character is not who he has represented himself to be to Chalmers.
Johnny Ross is not the low level mob technician who has come to Chalmers to testify.
Ross is actually a high-ranked informant who stole two million dollars from the Outfit, and has came to San Francisco to seek help from Chalmers, but in reality, the deal is a flop; he is planning to escape from both the mob and the police.
As Bullitt reconstructs Ross's movements, he finds the cab driver Weissberg (Robert Duvall) who originally brought Ross to the Hotel Daniels.
Bullitt is told by the cabbie that Ross had made both local and long distance calls from a pay phone before he was taken to the hotel.
Long distance toll records from the pay phone revealed that 'Ross' had placed an inter-city toll call to a hotel room south of San Francisco.
Bullitt picks up his 1968 Ford Mustang GT and sees he is being tailed by the same hitmen who killed Ross in their black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T.
He turns the tables and follows them, resulting in a protracted, visually dramatic car chase through the hills and streets of San Francisco.
The chase ends when Bullitt forces their speeding car off the road and into a gas station, causing a fiery explosion which kills the hitmen.
Back at the police station Bullitt is given until Monday morning to follow his remaining lead.
Bullitt heads to the hotel to which Ross had telephoned, where he finds the woman Ross had called still registered under the name Mrs. Dorothy Simmons, who has been graphically murdered.
The dead woman, or someone, had had her luggage sent to the airport.
After being examined by Bullitt and Delgetti, the contents of the dead woman’s luggage begin the unraveling of the mystery.
They find a pair of empty passport and airline ticket folders in each luggage set, plus brochures from a Chicago travel agency advertising a Rome vacation.
The luggage clothing contents are also strange as well, they appear to be staged.
All of the items are brand new, and have never been used or worn, with the price tags still attached or still inside of them.
The man’s shirts are personally monogrammed, A–R, which of course does not match the name Simmons.
However, inside the pockets of each of the sets of clothing are found several thousands of dollars of travelers’ checks, in multiple folders.
The checks have been separately issued to and properly endorsed by, a Mr Albert Renick and a Mrs. Dorothy Renick.
Bullitt tells Delgetti to contact Immigration Service in Chicago and obtain the photos and applications that their passports were issued under.
Bullitt comes to reason the events of the weekend into a coherent whole. Johnny Ross is an embezzler and had set in motion a scheme to get away with his thefts from the mob.
From the beginning Ross knew that the mob, not the police, were his most important problem.
He needed a way to have the mob stop looking for him, if he were to have any hope of actually getting away with his $2 million thefts.
So Ross had recruited and paid the Renicks to have Albert Renick impersonate Johnny Ross as a man on-the-run in San Francisco, seeking protective custody in a Senate hearing, and turning state's evidence under police protection.
Renick (as Ross), took the chain off the door of the hotel room to help his "kidnappers" (as he thought the plan was) make him disappear from police custody.
The airline tickets and the traveler's checks in both Mr. and Mrs. Renick's names wrongly convinced them that they were to have a vacation in Rome.
Chalmers arrives at the morgue, demanding from Bullitt a signed admission that Ross died while in his custody.
Bullitt demurs, and when the faxed copy of the Renicks' passport application photographs arrives, Chalmers is shown to have sent the police to protect the wrong man.
Ross, and his older brother, had set Albert Renick up in order to be killed as "Johnny Ross" so the real Ross could escape both the mob and the police under a false name. Johnny then killed Dorothy Renick to silence her.
At the San Francisco airport a surveillance of passengers boarding the flight to Rome does not discover anyone resembling Ross/Renick.
Bullitt guesses that Ross switched his ticket to an earlier international flight heading for London.
He rapidly discovers that Ross has boarded and the London flight is taxiing toward takeoff.
Chalmers makes one last attempt to use Ross for his own ends, which Bullitt moralistically rejects before pursuing Ross.
A chase across the busy runways of San Francisco Airport ensues.
Bullitt chases Ross back inside the crowded passenger terminal to a tense cat-and-mouse pursuit among the innocent throng.
When Ross bolts and shoots a security guard, Bullitt shoots and kills him.
Car chase
At the time of the film's release, the car chase scene generated a great amount of excitement.
Leonard Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best.
Emanuel Levy wrote in 2003 that, "Bullitt contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood's standards.
In his obituary for Peter Yates, Bruce Weber wrote "Mr. Yates’ reputation probably rests most securely on “Bullitt” (1968), his first American film – and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic.
The editing of this scene likely won editor Frank P. Keller the Academy Award for Best Editing.
Two 1968 390 V8 Ford Mustang GT fastbacks (325 hp) with four-speed manual transmissions were used for the chase scene, both loaned by the Ford Motor Company to Warner Bros. as part of a promotional agreement.
The Mustangs' engines, brakes and suspensions were heavily modified for the chase by veteran car racer Max Balchowsky. Ford also originally loaned two Galaxie sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Francisco. They were replaced with two 1968 375 hp 440 Magnum V8-powered Dodge Chargers. The engines in both Chargers were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were mildly upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work.
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The Bullitt Movie Plot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt
Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is about to hold a Senate Subcommittee hearing in San Francisco on organized crime in the United States.
To improve his political standing, Chalmers hopes to interrogate key state's witness Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), who has represented himself as a Chicago defector from the "organization".
Chalmers hopes to introduce his surprise witness, whom he will question in the subcommittee's public hearings.
At Chalmers's request, Ross is put under protective custody on Friday evening, supposed to be kept in for 3 days until Monday morning, when he is supposed to testify at court.
Lieutenant Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), Sgt Delgetti (Don Gordon) and Det. Carl Stanton (Carl Reindel), are assigned to give Ross around-the-clock protection at the Hotel Daniels, a cheap flophouse near the Embarcadero Freeway.
Late Saturday night, Ross inexplicably unchains the hotel room door. Before his young police protector Stanton can react, a pair of hitmen (Paul Genge and Bill Hickman) burst into the room and shoot Stanton and Ross, seriously wounding both.
Bullitt wants to investigate the shooting in the hotel, while Chalmers attempts to place blame for injury to his witness on Bullitt and the San Francisco P.D to avoid a media scandal.
Subsequently, Bullitt thwarts a second assassination attempt on the hospitalized Ross, although he shortly dies of his wounds from the initial hotel-room shotgunning.
Bullitt suppresses this news of his death, sneaking the man's body out of the hospital and sending it to the morgue as a John Doe, hoping to draw out the assassins.
Beginning the investigation anew, Bullitt goes to a confidential informant to get the “lowdown” on just who Ross was and why a high-priority mob hit had been ordered on him.
Bullitt is also made suspicious by the fact that Ross had unchained the door to the hotel room just prior to the shooting.
Ross had been apparently expecting someone whom he wanted to assist in entering his hotel room, but to Ross’ surprise the intruders were a professional contract murder team.
Bullitt learns the real reason for the hit on Ross from his North Beach informant.
It turns out that the Organization has been looking for and trying to assassinate Johnny Ross for several days.
They had first tried to kill him while he was still in Chicago. When that attempt failed, Ross fled unharmed to San Francisco.
The West Coast mob is reportedly assisting with the Chicago Outfit in looking all over the city for Ross, and has all the transport outlets covered.
It is progressively revealed that the 'Ross' character is not who he has represented himself to be to Chalmers.
Johnny Ross is not the low level mob technician who has come to Chalmers to testify.
Ross is actually a high-ranked informant who stole two million dollars from the Outfit, and has came to San Francisco to seek help from Chalmers, but in reality, the deal is a flop; he is planning to escape from both the mob and the police.
As Bullitt reconstructs Ross's movements, he finds the cab driver Weissberg (Robert Duvall) who originally brought Ross to the Hotel Daniels.
Bullitt is told by the cabbie that Ross had made both local and long distance calls from a pay phone before he was taken to the hotel.
Long distance toll records from the pay phone revealed that 'Ross' had placed an inter-city toll call to a hotel room south of San Francisco.
Bullitt picks up his 1968 Ford Mustang GT and sees he is being tailed by the same hitmen who killed Ross in their black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T.
He turns the tables and follows them, resulting in a protracted, visually dramatic car chase through the hills and streets of San Francisco.
The chase ends when Bullitt forces their speeding car off the road and into a gas station, causing a fiery explosion which kills the hitmen.
Back at the police station Bullitt is given until Monday morning to follow his remaining lead.
Bullitt heads to the hotel to which Ross had telephoned, where he finds the woman Ross had called still registered under the name Mrs. Dorothy Simmons, who has been graphically murdered.
The dead woman, or someone, had had her luggage sent to the airport.
After being examined by Bullitt and Delgetti, the contents of the dead woman’s luggage begin the unraveling of the mystery.
They find a pair of empty passport and airline ticket folders in each luggage set, plus brochures from a Chicago travel agency advertising a Rome vacation.
The luggage clothing contents are also strange as well, they appear to be staged.
All of the items are brand new, and have never been used or worn, with the price tags still attached or still inside of them.
The man’s shirts are personally monogrammed, A–R, which of course does not match the name Simmons.
However, inside the pockets of each of the sets of clothing are found several thousands of dollars of travelers’ checks, in multiple folders.
The checks have been separately issued to and properly endorsed by, a Mr Albert Renick and a Mrs. Dorothy Renick.
Bullitt tells Delgetti to contact Immigration Service in Chicago and obtain the photos and applications that their passports were issued under.
Bullitt comes to reason the events of the weekend into a coherent whole. Johnny Ross is an embezzler and had set in motion a scheme to get away with his thefts from the mob.
From the beginning Ross knew that the mob, not the police, were his most important problem.
He needed a way to have the mob stop looking for him, if he were to have any hope of actually getting away with his $2 million thefts.
So Ross had recruited and paid the Renicks to have Albert Renick impersonate Johnny Ross as a man on-the-run in San Francisco, seeking protective custody in a Senate hearing, and turning state's evidence under police protection.
Renick (as Ross), took the chain off the door of the hotel room to help his "kidnappers" (as he thought the plan was) make him disappear from police custody.
The airline tickets and the traveler's checks in both Mr. and Mrs. Renick's names wrongly convinced them that they were to have a vacation in Rome.
Chalmers arrives at the morgue, demanding from Bullitt a signed admission that Ross died while in his custody.
Bullitt demurs, and when the faxed copy of the Renicks' passport application photographs arrives, Chalmers is shown to have sent the police to protect the wrong man.
Ross, and his older brother, had set Albert Renick up in order to be killed as "Johnny Ross" so the real Ross could escape both the mob and the police under a false name. Johnny then killed Dorothy Renick to silence her.
At the San Francisco airport a surveillance of passengers boarding the flight to Rome does not discover anyone resembling Ross/Renick.
Bullitt guesses that Ross switched his ticket to an earlier international flight heading for London.
He rapidly discovers that Ross has boarded and the London flight is taxiing toward takeoff.
Chalmers makes one last attempt to use Ross for his own ends, which Bullitt moralistically rejects before pursuing Ross.
A chase across the busy runways of San Francisco Airport ensues.
Bullitt chases Ross back inside the crowded passenger terminal to a tense cat-and-mouse pursuit among the innocent throng.
When Ross bolts and shoots a security guard, Bullitt shoots and kills him.
Car chase
At the time of the film's release, the car chase scene generated a great amount of excitement.
Leonard Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best.
Emanuel Levy wrote in 2003 that, "Bullitt contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood's standards.
In his obituary for Peter Yates, Bruce Weber wrote "Mr. Yates’ reputation probably rests most securely on “Bullitt” (1968), his first American film – and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic.
The editing of this scene likely won editor Frank P. Keller the Academy Award for Best Editing.
Two 1968 390 V8 Ford Mustang GT fastbacks (325 hp) with four-speed manual transmissions were used for the chase scene, both loaned by the Ford Motor Company to Warner Bros. as part of a promotional agreement.
The Mustangs' engines, brakes and suspensions were heavily modified for the chase by veteran car racer Max Balchowsky. Ford also originally loaned two Galaxie sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Francisco. They were replaced with two 1968 375 hp 440 Magnum V8-powered Dodge Chargers. The engines in both Chargers were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were mildly upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work.
The Car Models...
These have been done in die-cast and model kits by several makers...
Hot Wheels 1968 Ford Mustangs and Dodge Chargers...
Hot Wheels hasn't yet featured any exclusives for this movie but they prominently feature the Ford Mustang and Dodge Charger as show in images below.
The Real Deal...
Ultimate Hot Wheels Cars|Channel C00236562