Peter Yates
Bullitt

If you love the cop-and-criminal chases of the best American cinema, then you can't miss the prototype, the inimitable, famous "chase" on the streets of San Francisco by Lieutenant Frank Bullitt - Steve McQueen in the iconic Ford Mustang in the cult film "Bullitt" from 1968.

The director is Peter Yates, who in his debut in the USA meets McQueen and creates his masterpiece: a high-tension thriller, the kind that lets you breathe, frees you, only at the end. The credit goes indeed to the directing but also and especially to the Oscar-winning editing (literally) by Frank P. Miller. And of course, to the great performance by Steve McQueen.

Frank is a "bipolar" type: failed and proud, stubborn yet at the same time disheartened, abiding by the rules but also capable of breaking them, and still melancholic and open to hope. Many doubts, very few words: in short, a man. And, as a lieutenant of the homicide squad, the opposite of the "all talk and badge" cop hated by one of cinema's most famous mobsters. Alongside McQueen are actors who would become stars: the tireless Robert Vaughan, in the role of the smooth California politician Walter Chalmers; the future Oscar winner Robert Duvall, here just the cab driver Weissberg. But there's also a stunning Jacqueline Bisset at 24 years old, a beauty to drive anyone mad, a future icon of refined, luminous beauty. But it's McQueen who stands out: the melancholic look, the turtleneck sweater, the raincoat, the perpetual cigarette, the guns strapped under his arms. In short, we're talking about a legend: if you love the genre, make it yours. 

"Bullitt" will not disappoint you.