Line #8 Trivia/Bullitt


1	* TheCastShowoff:
2	** The famous chase scene was a chance for Creator/SteveMcQueenActor to show off his driving skills stemming from his love of racing.
3	** Bill Hickman was ''always'' the driver of the Charger. [=McQueen=] was the driver for about half of the Mustang's driving sequence, but it's never been doubted that Hickman was the Charger's driver.
4	* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SteveMcQueenActor named Frank Bullitt as his favorite role.
5	* IAmNotSpock: Several years later, Creator/RobertVaughn actively considered going into politics. To his dismay, he discovered that people couldn't take him seriously, either because he was largely known as Napoleon Solo in ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' or found him untrustworthy as they remembered his performance as the oily politician Chalmers in this film.
6	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Many were surprised that Creator/SteveMcQueenActor signed on to play a cop, having had many run-ins with the police as a youth.
7	* MoneyDearBoy: In his autobiography, Creator/RobertVaughn said he declined the role of Sen. Walter Chalmers because he didn't understand the script. Vaughn went on to say that he kept getting the script back with higher and higher salary offers to play the role. Finally, Vaughn said he got the script with a salary offer that was higher than anything he had been paid before, and while he STILL didn't understand the script, the offer was too good to pass up, and he accepted the role.
8	* NoStuntDouble: Zigzagged. Creator/SteveMcQueenActor did his own stunt driving, even putting his head near the window so you can see it's really him. That said, about ½ of the driving was by stunt drivers Loren Janes, Bud Ekins and Carey Loftin. If you can see [=McQueen's=] face in the rearview mirror or through the windshield, then that is him driving. If you can't, chances are it is one of the others.
9	* TheRedStapler: Several items of clothing worn by Creator/SteveMcQueenActor received a boost in popularity thanks to the film: desert boots, a trench coat, a blue turtleneck sweater and, most famously, a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches.
10	* RomanceOnTheSet: Several biographers have alleged that Creator/SteveMcQueenActor and Creator/JacquelineBisset had an affair during filming. However, Bisset has vehemently denied this on numerous occasions over the years.
11	* ThoseTwoActors: A variation. In this film, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor plays a high-ranking cop opposite Creator/RobertVaughn, who plays a senator. They would later appear in Film/TheToweringInferno. Vaughn again played a senator in that film, while [=McQueen=] plays the role of another high-ranking public servant, a battalion chief.
12	* ThrowItIn:
13	** In an early, dialogueless scene with Bullitt and Cathy at a Chinese restaurant, the extra playing the waiter nearly smacks Steve [=McQueen=] in the eye with a menu. [=McQueen=] visibly chuckles and jokes about it, so it was left in as a character moment for Bullitt.
14	** Bullitt's reverse burnout during the chase scene actually wasn't in the script--Steve [=McQueen=] had mistakenly missed the turn. The footage was still kept, though.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the first draft, adapted from Robert L. Fish's novel ''Mute Witness'', Det. Frank Bullitt was a Boston policeman who was described as "ate a lot of ice cream and never solved a case." The book had originally been bought with Creator/SpencerTracy in mind; but with Tracy's death the property fell into the hands of Creator/SteveMcQueenActor and producer Philip D'Antoni. D'Antoni added the chase and changed the location to San Francisco.

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