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Click here to buy posters! Conflict between police sleuthing and political expediency is the essence of Bulitt, an extremely well-made crime melodrama filmed in Frisco. Steve McQueen delivers a very strong performance as a detective seeking a man whom Robert Vaughn, ambitious politico, would exploit for selfish motives. Good scripting and excellent direction by Peter Yates maintain deliberately low-key but mounting suspense. Arrival in Frisco of a Chi hood cues assignment of McQueen, plus assistants Don Gordon and Carol Reindel, to protect his life until headline-hunting Vaughn produces him dramatically before a senate crime commitee. Hood's death, at the hands of Paul Genge, provides the primary dramatic conflict: Vaughn McQueen is interested in apprehending the killer. Simon Oakland, McQueen's superior, lets him pursue the case independantly, while Vaughn, with aid from another senior detective, Norman Fell, is after independant sleuth's scalp.
OSCARS yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider
Dvds | Videos | Steve McQueen | Jacqueline Bisset | Robert Duvall
yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider
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