Bullitt (1968)

Film Posters of the 60s, Aurum Press Limited, 1997, p. 74.

The present lot is of the rarest and most sought-after Bullitt posters, as it was only produced for international use, and therefore far fewer examples were printed. The artwork on the one sheet on offer here was also only used on this poster for the classic 60s title.

Bullitt is ab action thriller directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. It is undoubtedly Steve McQueen's most famous role, where he plays San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt. Bullitt and his team are given the important task of guarding, who they think is, mobster Johnny Ross over the weekend, as Ross is due to give evidence on the Monday, in a Senate subcommittee hearing on organised crime. Things don't go quite to plan when two hitmen burst in and shoot Ross, who later dies in hospital. Bullitt is then determined to find who was behind killing the witness in his protection, and in doing so a bigger story unfolds. The other star of the film is the 1968 Ford Mustang, which Bullitt drives in the exciting, and now classic car chase scenes.