Bullitt Car Chase

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Car chase scene from Bullitt

25 Responses to “Bullitt Car Chase”

  1. wheeler8801 Says:

    I love the part at the beginning when the mustang pops up in the mirror at 2:16

  2. monaco74 Says:

    Hickman was the man!

  3. daytona1073 Says:

    get rid of those dumbass ads!!!!

  4. daytona1073 Says:

    where’s my comment??

  5. billthestinker Says:

    the bad guys are quite gay and nasty

  6. LJBCRT Says:

    Still The Best Car Chase Sequence in the History of Motion Pictures.

    If they redid it today, it would be an overdone, digitized mess.

  7. nuaragirl1 Says:

    LONG LIVE BILL HICKMAN

  8. sneezersneezer Says:

    Oh man! This is the coolest. Steve McQueen doing his own driving, the best cars possible, killer killers! And the music swings. (I do wish I saw less of the VW bug though!)

  9. tubi333 Says:

    It’s “Shifting Gears”. At the start of the video “Bullitt opening title sequence” from jtkeroac there’s a description of this sequence.

  10. tubi333 Says:

    OK it was just one day before that guy asked the question that I had seen this film again, so I had all details fresh in mind and it all kept pouring out… :) peace.

  11. lazyboy2004 Says:

    whats the name of the song at the start of the clip?

  12. shumble69 Says:

    chill out tubi it was not a dig just a general statement about the film,you wanna relax a bit mate lol.

  13. tubi333 Says:

    If you don’t care, don’t read.

  14. Caravaners Says:

    Always wondered the same thing. I used to just tap the clutch and off the gas for a split second and bang it into the next gear.

  15. blackmountainboar Says:

    after 41 years and still a thrilling ‘cat and mouse’ car chase
    very hip soundtrack as well

  16. shumble69 Says:

    Who cares about all the whys and whats of this scene,mc queen was one cool fucker and no matter what still a classic car chase

  17. Einstiensblackid Says:

    Why’s Steve double clutching the up shifts?

  18. mixxmexx Says:

    he was flushing them out

  19. tubi333 Says:

    I’d like to add a 4th version to my suggestions why the mafiosi followed Bullitt: initially they neither wanted to kill or intimidate him, but just find out where he had hidden the principal witness.

  20. tubi333 Says:

    Four times. This error was spoofed in an episode of Futurama in a car chase with lots of green VWs. They also spoofed that one car lost more than four hupcaps. You can find this info and more on Wikipedia.

  21. tubi333 Says:

    … (the latter one died from this but the mafia didn’t know yet). His fellow and the janitor had earlier described the murder and his rifle. At this moment Bullitt maybe accepted to cause a crash because he knew they were the murderers and would try again to kill him. That’s why he stayed aside and provoked the final crash.

  22. tubi333 Says:

    … Maybe he didn’t want to kill them but just follow them to their refuge. Because he was more skilled in driving than the mafia types it was an easy thing for him to become the chaser. The mafia driver noticed that and got nervous. He knew that Bullitt would either follow him home or kill him. Then comes the scene with the shooting. It was then, if not before, that Bullitt saw the guy with the rifle and knew that it was the one who shot at his police fellow and at the principal witness. …

  23. tubi333 Says:

    … They hoped that after Bullitt’s death the principal witness would again be transferred to the hospital where they could kill him.
    3. The mafia had informants in the police department and thus they knew that Bullitt was after them on a hot trace.

    But why Bullitt turned from the chased one to the chaser? He knew that it had to be the mafia who was after him and probably wanted to kill him. So it wouldn’t be enough to shake them off - they would be after him again. …

  24. tubi333 Says:

    Well, at the beginning it wasn’t Bullitt who was the chaser. The mafia types were after him. You may ask why? I have three suggestions: 1. They didn’t know yet that Bullitt had taken the principal witness out of hospital to hide him from the mafia. They just wanted to intimidate him with the car chase so that he wouldn’t defeat anymore their murder attacks as before.
    2. They suspected that he was responsible for the hiding of the principal witness and wanted to kill him. …

  25. asbochamp Says:

    How many times did they pass that green VW?

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