Just saw Bullit for the first time.

[mete]

Things like the chase scene became a standard that everyone wanted to beat ! I think it was in 'The French Connection' .I liked that better too because I lived in Brooklyn at the time and knew the roads.

 

[mwerner]

Only slightly related, but does anyone remember On Any Sunday?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Any_Sunday

Great motorcycle racing film by Bruce Brown, who also did the surfing film, The Endless Summer. Showed off desert racing, motocross, and dirt-track racing and featured many racing stars of the day as well as McQueen, who used to campaign a motocross bike under a psuedonym.

 

[JPD1998]

Things like the chase scene became a standard that everyone wanted to beat ! I think it was in 'The French Connection' .I liked that better too because I lived in Brooklyn at the time and knew the roads.

My father had a furniture store on 86th st & 18th ave, right where the woman with the carriage was crossing the street. He said they shot that scene over and over again.

 

[Piso Mojado]

Very good film score by Lalo Schifrin. The jazz musicians in the restaurant were playing Schifrin's "A Song for Cathy," which he still enjoys playing when he sits down at the piano (heard him a few years back). The restaurant band was a Bay area combo McQueen heard and liked and requested for the film — but their music was probably played by Bud Shank, Ray Brown, Howard Roberts, and Larry Bunker. Too bad they didn't do their own Bullitt album.

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[Daddyo16]

I had the soundtrack album when I was in high school. Got made fun of because I like film scores, but Bullitt was one of the best of the sixties.