Steve mcqueen movies
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Someone once said of Steve McQueen (1930–80) that his range as an actor was deep but not very broad. All right, I admit it—I said it in my 2001 biography of the all-American star who still looms over Hollywood like a sort of male equivalent of the Statue of Liberty, more than 40 years after his untimely death. I would propose that McQueen’s best films still stand head and shoulders above most of the dark, grim, plot-free, self-indulgent dramas or addled so-called comedies with which we’re bombarded today, and also that, on second thought, his range was altogether more varied, even idiosyncratic, than I once thought.
Many of us are familiar with the likes of The Great Escape (1963), Bullitt (1968), The Towering Inferno (1974), and the other big-budget romps that made McQueen a fixture in American life. His best films are both entertaining and uplifting, and united by a clear moral vision: Good will prevail over evil, but it’s going to take a while. As proof of this refreshingly nuanced approach to his craft, I offer two McQueen vehicles—Junion Bonner and The Getaway—rele
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Bullitt
1968 film by Peter Yates
For other uses, see Bullitt (disambiguation).
Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film[4][5] directed by Peter Yates from a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner and based on the 1963 crime novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. In the film, detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.[6]
A star vehicle for McQueen, Bullitt began development once Yates was hired upon the completion of the screenplay, which differs significantly from Fish's novel. Principal photography took place throughout 1967, with filming primarily taking place on location in San Francisco. The film was produced by McQueen's Solar Productions, with Robert Relyea as executive producer alongside Philip D'Antoni. Lalo Schifrin wrote the film's jazz-inspired score. Bullitt is notable for its extensive use of practical locations and stuntwork.
Bullitt Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, and the streets of New York as he traces the woolly geography of actor Steve McQueen's life, relationships, career, and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle McQueen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt.•
STEVE MCQUEEN
In the 1960s, McQueen was, according to box office receipts, the biggest movie star of his generation and one of the coolest men to ever walk the planet. Greg Laurie was a teen at the time and an ardent fan of "The King of Cool," first mesmerized by McQueen in 1963's The Great Escape. Like millions of cinema fans, Greg developed a lifelong fascination with the actor. Now he has a chance to tell McQueen's story.
McQueen was a complex, contradictory man who lived the same way he drove his motorcycles and cars: fearlessly, ruthlessly and at top speed. After a lifetime of fast cars, women, and drugs, McQueen took a surprising detour.
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