By the late 1960s, the American muscle car era was in full swing, and the movies began to follow suit. Peter Yates'sBullitt, starring Steve McQueen, is a tightly scripted crime film that features a car chase many still regard as the greatest in cinema history. Beginning on the streets o...
Carried out through OnePoll.com, the research also identified the greatest car chases of all time.Number one was the sequence from The Italian Job, second place went to the chase in Bullitt and third spot went to the scene from 1971’s The French Connection....
“Bullitt” distilled the power of the car symbol. The “Bullitt” chase was not about what a Mustang and a Charger were — but about what they did. And it was the doing, the action, the speed, that exploited the cars as symbols of Power. A third example and I’m through. All of...
Wasp!) or participating in a Bullitt-echoing car chase around and over San Fran’s pretty hills. Hope is far more capable than Scott, and is a joy to watch
In the hierarchy of great movie chase sequences, the recent landmarksinclude the chases under the Brooklyn elevated tracks in “The French Connection” down the hills of San Francisco in “Bullitt” and throughthe Paris Metro in “Diva.” Those chases were not only thrilling intheir own right...
Bullitt’s iconic car chase over the hills of San Francisco—a tire-squealing, exhaust-spewing, suspension-crunching affair if there ever was one—lasted 10 rollicking minutes on film. But it took four weeks to shoot in block-by-block chunks, reported stunt driver Loren Janes in a 2011 int...
Bullitt: Why Spielberg Is Playing with Fire Remaking the 55-Year-Old Classic Is the iconic auteur Steven Spielberg playing with fire by even attempting to recreate Bullitt, the Steve McQueen car chase thriller classic? ByPatrick Hayes May 20, 2023 ...
Although it’s now more than 50 years old,Bullittremains one of the most beloved action movies in Hollywood history, with a car chase through the streets of San Francisco that appears on literally every single list ever written of the greatest car chases in movies. (With good reason, too;...
violence on D-Day revolutionized how warfare is portrayed not just in cinema but in many other mediums in pop culture. And now, it looks like Spielberg’s next big project as director will be a reboot of Steve McQueen’s classic 1968 film,Bullitt, which should rev up everyone’s engines...
In what might be the most famous car chase scene in motion-picture history, the movie Bullitt has the King of Cool Steve McQueen who handles a car like Dirty Harry handles a .44 magnum. 1973 Ford XB Falcon IMDB 1973 Ford XB Falcon ...