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Directed by Peter Yates.
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Directed by Peter Yates.
Creator/PeterYates.
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* ArchEnemy: Walter Chalmers and Johnny Ross to Frank Bullitt.
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* BadassDriver: Have you seen that chase?
* BigBadEnsemble: Walter Chalmers and [[spoiler:Johnny Ross]].
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* IkeaWeaponry: The assassins' Winchester shotgun.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: The chase scene starts with this.
* TheInformant: Eddy, who Bullitt meets with at a cafe.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: The chase scene starts with this.
* TheInformant: Eddy, who Bullitt meets with at a cafe.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Walter Chalmers.
* OutDamnedSpot: The ending. Bullitt stands in his bathroom washing his hands and pondering just how badly he's screwed things up. Or just how much his girlfriend Cathy is right about how callous he is about the violence he faces on the job. Note that the last shot is a closeup of his holstered gun and spare rounds.
* OutDamnedSpot: The ending. Bullitt stands in his bathroom washing his hands and pondering just how badly he's screwed things up. Or just how much his girlfriend Cathy is right about how callous he is about the violence he faces on the job. Note that the last shot is a closeup of his holstered gun and spare rounds.
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* OutDamnedSpot: The ending. Bullitt stands in his bathroom washing his hands and pondering just how badly he's screwed things up. Or just how much his girlfriend Cathy is right about how callous he is about the violence he faces on the job. Note that the last shot is a closeup of his holstered gun and spare rounds.
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* SloMoBigAir: During the chase scene.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the film is unrelated to the Zodiac killings, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] based Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, who invesitagted the case.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the film is unrelated to the Zodiac killings, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] based Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, who invesitagted investigated the case.
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Johnny Ross, a member of TheMafia, wishes to provide State's evidence and is put in witness protection. Then Mafia hitmen find him and blow him away, forcing Frank Bullitt (who was part of the protection detail) to prove that it wasn't the result of the SAPD being corrupt or incompetent. [[spoiler:Turns out that the man who set it up was Johnny Ross himself, who told the Mafia where to find him so they would kill a body double and, with everybody thinking him dead, he would go off and live large in another country.]]
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Johnny Ross, a member of TheMafia, wishes to provide State's evidence and is put in witness protection. Then Mafia hitmen find him and blow him away, forcing Frank Bullitt (who was part of the protection detail) to prove that it wasn't the result of the SAPD SFPD being corrupt or incompetent. [[spoiler:Turns out that the man who set it up was Johnny Ross himself, who told the Mafia where to find him so they would kill a body double and, with everybody thinking him dead, he would go off and live large in another country.]]
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* FakingTheDead As it turns out, the real Johnny Ross was playing just about everyone in order to escape scot-free by faking his own death.
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* FakingTheDead FakingTheDead: As it turns out, the real Johnny Ross was playing just about everyone in order to escape scot-free by faking his own death.
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* KarmaHoudini: Chalmers.
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* KarmaHoudini: Chalmers.Downplayed with Chalmers. Although he suffers no immediate repercussions for being an ObstructiveBureaucrat, he is left empty-handed without a witness to testify against the Mafia or the means to shift the blame onto the San Francisco Police Department. Without Johnny Ross' testimony, Chalmer's political career and reputation will likely suffer a setback.
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[[JustHereForGodzilla Best known for]] a legendary, nearly ten-minute-long ChaseScene in which [=McQueen=], largely eschewing stunt men, famously drove a [[CoolCar certain green Mustang]] all over San Francisco in pursuit of two bad guys in a black Dodge Charger. Also one of the first chase scenes filmed with cars at full speed instead of using [[UnderCrank sped-up film]] as a cheat.
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[[JustHereForGodzilla Best known for]] a legendary, nearly ten-minute-long ChaseScene in which [=McQueen=], largely eschewing stunt men, stuntmen, famously drove a [[CoolCar certain dark green Mustang]] 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback]] all over San Francisco in pursuit of two bad guys in a black Dodge Charger. Also one of the first chase scenes filmed with cars at full speed instead of using [[UnderCrank sped-up film]] as a cheat.
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Best known for a legendary, nearly ten-minute-long ChaseScene in which [=McQueen=], largely eschewing stunt men, famously drove a [[CoolCar certain green Mustang]] all over San Francisco in pursuit of two bad guys in a black Dodge Charger. Also one of the first chase scenes filmed with cars at full speed instead of using [[UnderCrank sped-up film]] as a cheat.
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[[JustHereForGodzilla Best known for for]] a legendary, nearly ten-minute-long ChaseScene in which [=McQueen=], largely eschewing stunt men, famously drove a [[CoolCar certain green Mustang]] all over San Francisco in pursuit of two bad guys in a black Dodge Charger. Also one of the first chase scenes filmed with cars at full speed instead of using [[UnderCrank sped-up film]] as a cheat.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Cathy, Bullit's much younger girlfriend doesn't get much more depth than being his sympathetic paramour.
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Highly influential 1968 cop movie set in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. Creator/SteveMcQueenActor stars as the eponymous Lt. Frank Bullitt, a TV dinner-eating, workaday CowboyCop (in fact, he's the TropeMaker) who goes after the [[TheMafia Mafia]] hit men who killed a witness he was protecting.
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Highly influential 1968 cop movie set in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. Creator/SteveMcQueenActor [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] stars as the eponymous Lt. Frank Bullitt, a TV dinner-eating, workaday CowboyCop (in fact, he's the TropeMaker) who goes after the [[TheMafia Mafia]] hit men who killed a witness he was protecting.
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* RatedMForManly: The film not only stars Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, but it basically created the ChaseScene.
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* RatedMForManly: The film not only stars Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], but it basically created the ChaseScene.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the film is unrelated to the Zodiac killings, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor based Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, who invesitagted the case.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the film is unrelated to the Zodiac killings, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] based Bullitt on San Francisco Inspector Dave Toschi, who invesitagted the case.
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** And then [[spoiler:Johnny Ross]] at the end.
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* FamousLastWords: "No wait. Now look, he told me—" Renick
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* BigBad: Walter Chalmers and [[spoiler:Johnny Ross]].
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* BigBad: BigBadEnsemble: Walter Chalmers and [[spoiler:Johnny Ross]].
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* AdaptationalNameChange: In ''Mute Witness'', the hero was Lt. Clancy (no first name). For the movie, the name was changed to the more memorable Frank Bullitt.
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: Johnny Ross, a member of TheMafia, wishes to provide State's evidence and is put in witness protection. Then Mafia hitmen find him and blow him away, forcing Frank Bullitt (who was part of the protection detail) to prove that it wasn't the result of the SAPD being corrupt or incompetent. [[spoiler:Turns out that the man who set it up was Johnny Ross himself, who told the Mafia where to find him so they would kill a body double and, with everybody thinking him dead, he would go off and live large in another country.]]
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* BigBad: Walter Chambers and [[spoiler:Johnny Ross]].
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* CoolCar: Bullitt's Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback (ask a gearhead if they can recite that if you need proof) has become so iconic that Ford has released two Mustang Bullitt editions over the years. Also, the black Dodge Charger R/T driven by the hitmen.
** Said black Charger R/T was not only so much faster than the Mustang that the crew had to remove two of its spark plugs and install thin tires from a base Charger to slow it down, but it survived the repeated jumping and abuse of the chase scene filming with ease, while the Mustang needed constant repairs. Cool car indeed.
*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes,[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]]The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
** Said black Charger R/T was not only so much faster than the Mustang that the crew had to remove two of its spark plugs and install thin tires from a base Charger to slow it down, but it survived the repeated jumping and abuse of the chase scene filming with ease, while the Mustang needed constant repairs. Cool car indeed.
*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes,[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]]The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
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** Bullitt's Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback (ask a gearhead if they can recite that if you need proof) has become so iconic that Ford has released two Mustang Bullitt editions over theyears. years.
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**hitmen. Said black Charger R/T was not only so much faster than the Mustang that the crew had to remove two of its spark plugs and install thin tires from a base Charger to slow it down, but it survived the repeated jumping and abuse of the chase scene filming with ease, while the Mustang needed constant repairs. Cool car indeed. \n*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes,[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]]The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
** Bullitt's Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback (ask a gearhead if they can recite that if you need proof) has become so iconic that Ford has released two Mustang Bullitt editions over the
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* CowboyCop: Regarded as the [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]], also a fine example of an UnbuiltTrope as things don't turn out quite how we'd expect.
** Creator/GlennFord in ''Film/TheBigHeat'' is kind of a CowboyCop, but more along the lines of TheUnfettered working for a hopelessly corrupt police force. Bullitt is probably the first pure example.
* DaChief: Captain Bennett. Unlike most examples of the character type, he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who gives Bullitt freedom to run the investigation in his own way, and takes the cop's side against Senator Chalmers.
** Creator/GlennFord in ''Film/TheBigHeat'' is kind of a CowboyCop, but more along the lines of TheUnfettered working for a hopelessly corrupt police force. Bullitt is probably the first pure example.
* DaChief: Captain Bennett. Unlike most examples of the character type, he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who gives Bullitt freedom to run the investigation in his own way, and takes the cop's side against Senator Chalmers.
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* CowboyCop: Regarded as the [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]], also a fine example of an UnbuiltTrope as things don't turn out quite how we'd expect.
**expect. Creator/GlennFord in ''Film/TheBigHeat'' is kind of a CowboyCop, but more along the lines of TheUnfettered working for a hopelessly corrupt police force. Bullitt is probably the first pure example.
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* FakingTheDead[=/=]DeadPersonImpersonation: As it turns out, the real Johnny Ross was playing just about everyone in order to escape scot-free by faking his own death.
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* OutDamnedSpot: The ending. Bullitt stands in his bathroom washing his hands and pondering just how badly he's screwed things up.
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* OutDamnedSpot: The ending. Bullitt stands in his bathroom washing his hands and pondering just how badly he's screwed things up.
**up. Or just how much his girlfriend Cathy is right about how callous he is about the violence he faces on the job. Note that the last shot is a closeup of his holstered gun and spare rounds.
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* PetTheDog: Much is made of how callous Bullitt is towards the violence he faces on the job. But, at the airport, [[spoiler: after he shoots Ross dead, he covers the dead man's face with his jacket when he sees how upset the bystanders are.]]
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: TThe legendary car Chase scene ends with the Mafia men's Charger barreling out of the road and careening against a fuel truck before exploding like it was full of dynamite.
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** Bullitt and Cathy talking about how he might be getting too callous about violence in his job.
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** Bullitt and Cathy (Creator/JacquelineBisset) talking about how he might be getting too callous about violence in his job.
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*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]], and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
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*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes[[note]]Until purposes,[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]], and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] The [[/note]]The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
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* ThickerThanWater: Pete Ross helps his brother Johnny escape the Chicago hit in the opening. (He's told afterwards that the Organization will find somebody else to to the job... and Pete will pay for it.)
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* ThickerThanWater: Pete Ross helps his brother Johnny escape the Chicago hit in the opening. (He's told afterwards that the Organization will find somebody else to to do the job... and Pete will pay for it.)
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The book ''Mute Witness'' describes Frank Bullitt as a cop who "eats a lot of ice cream and never solves a case". The rights were originally secured for a movie to star Creator/SpencerTracy, who more closely resembled the book's version of the character.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The book ''Mute Witness'' describes Frank Bullitt as a cop who "eats a lot of ice cream and never solves a case". The rights were originally secured for a movie to star Creator/SpencerTracy, who more closely resembled the book's version of the character.character, but died before production could begin.
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* KillerRabbit: The mob hitman is a grey-haired man in plain clothes. His driver looks like a middle-aged accountant, but Bullitt has to work hard to keep up with him.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Jacqueline Bissett, as Bullitt's girlfriend Cathy, does two things in the movie. First, she looks very very pretty. Second, she has one scene where she guilt-trips Bullitt about getting too callous about his work. That's it.
** Though that one scene does have a lot of significance that comes to bear in the ending.
** Though that one scene does have a lot of significance that comes to bear in the ending.
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*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]], and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
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*** Specifically, there were two of both cars, but only one of the Chargers was an R/T. Afterwards, one Mustang had to be destroyed for liability purposes[[note]]Until [[http://jalopnik.com/the-lost-bullitt-mustang-may-have-been-discovered-in-me-1792985833 it showed up again in 2017]], having spent the intervening years in a Mexican scrapyard and been bought to rebuild into [[GoneInSixtySeconds1974 [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Eleanor!]].[[/note]], and the other was sold to a production crew member, and disappeared sometime after [=McQueen's=] death.[[note]] At one point the oil pan on one was ripped open during a rather hard downhill scene, spewing smoke and oil everywhere; you can see it if you watch carefully.[[/note]] The R/T Charger was sold to [[http://www.ponysite.de/charger_welch.htm Arnold Welch]], the non-R/T was sold back to the Chrysler dealership, repainted yellow [[HonestJohnsDealership and sold to an unsuspecting customer]] (the same thing happened with ''Film/VanishingPoint'').
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* RatedMForManly: The film not only stars Creator/SteveMcQueen, but it basically created the ChaseScene.
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* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The score drops out of the movie as soon as the car chase starts in earnest. The rest of the chase is a symphony of screeching tires, revving motors, and shotgun blasts.
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* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The score drops out of the movie as soon as the car chase starts in earnest. The rest of the car chase is a symphony of screeching tires, revving motors, bouncing suspensions, and shotgun blasts.
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