Bullitt

A classic movie for a number of reasons. First, you've got McQueen at his best. The story is structured so that you get realism and moments with McQueen looking for evidence and/or thinking, working through an investigation with people straddling a line between objectivity and callousness. Then you've got Ms. Bisset looking incredible. There's a very brave scene with McQueen, Bisset with friends at a club with no dialogue, we just listen to the live music.

Of course, there's the chase through San Francisco. Look for the green vw bug during the hill chase. There's also a cameo of a young Robert Duvall playing a cab driver.

25: Killers follow the ambulance. The wounded cop is carried into another ambulance. Bullitt learns something new: the man they think is Ross unlocked the front door to allow the killers in. The birth of something new.

45: The man they think is Ross dies. Bullitt asks the doctor for help; he doesn't want anyone to know Ross is dead. The doctor agrees to misplace a file. Bullitt and others move the body to the morgue. Now that I'm aware.

60: Bullitt calls Eddie to get info on Ross. Robert Duvall says Ross made two calls. The killers observe Bullitt. At a church, the captain with a family speaks with Chalmers and Chalmers threatens the captain to nail Bullitt or else. "Castrate him." There's no going back now.

-45 One of the best car chases in movie history starts just before -45. At -45 McQueen stops being the hunted and starts slowly following the killers. The killers burn rubber and the high speed chase begins. They go up and down hills and speed along the highway until the killers die in an explosion. Now that I'm aware.

-25: Bullitt and his partner Don Gordon discover AR (no, not augmented reality, AR are initials). This clue leads them to understand that the man Chalmers ordered them to guard wasn't Ross. The coroner reports on a body as Bullitt observes. Eventually, Bullitt will find Ross and resolve everything. The final turning point.