SFPD Det. Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) is a trusted veteran cop, a tight-lipped man who is a personification of cool. He knows how to keep his cool when things get stressful and/or dangerous and can handle himself in a gunfight, a high-speed car chase, or a brawl. He thinks on his feet and is not taken in by the fancy words of businessmen, lawyers, politicians, or bureaucrats. Because he possesses these qualities, he is, somewhat to his chagrin, pulled in for a special weekend assignment overseeing police protection for a mob insider-turned-(ostensible) informant who is scheduled to provide testimony before a special congressional committee in San Francisco the following Monday. His almost-equally cool and competent partner, Delgetti (Don Gordon) is also on the assignment. It turns out the witness is specially groomed by a politically ambitious government functionary, Chalmers (Robert Vaughn of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame), a smarmy social climber of surface charm and questionable reputation, and inevitably the assignment goes wrong, with Chalmers attempting to palm blame off on Bullitt. Bullitt only has 36 hours to prove that the witness was an elaborate ruse and that Chalmers, blinded by his own ambition, is to blame for the fiasco. Through one of the most famous and exciting car chases in screen history, up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco, down a freeway and through green hillocks before a fiery denouement in a gas station, and an equally thrilling foot chase along the runways and taxiways and into the terminal of SF International Airport, Bullitt methodically but relentlessly gets to the bottom of the confusing and complex case. Also providing welcome visual adornment in the film is Bullitt's girlfriend Cathy (the then-24-year-old Jacqueline Bisset). Show less «