Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Bullitt
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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, and repeated every four hours throughout the day , it’s the described movie Bullitt from 1968.
Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller about an all guts, no glory San Francisco cop who becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
Directed by: Peter Yates.
Produced by: Philip D'Antoni.
Screenplay by: Alan R. Trustman, and Harry Kleiner.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon and Simon Oakland.
Music by: Lalo Schifrin.
Cinematography: William A. Fraker.
Edited by: Frank P. Keller.
Production company: Solar Productions and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
Based on: Mute Witness, by Robert L. Fish.
Distributed by: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
Release date: October 17, 1968.
Running time: 113 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $4 million.
Box office: $42.3 million.
The film was made by McQueen's Solar Productions company, with his partner Robert E. Relyea, as executive producer.
The film was a critical and box-office smash, later winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and receiving a nomination for Best Sound.
Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Bullitt is also notable for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in movie history.
In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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