Bullitt

Jubal Kincaid is exactly on target with his seven reasons why Bullitt is McQueen's finest film. Two more strengths are the fact that the film is not filled with nudity and profanities. In fact, the sole instance of the former is a brief glimpse of a lobby card outside a topless club where Lt. Bullitt meets an informant, and the only example of the latter is one very appropriate curse toward the end of the film.

Forget Eastwood/Marvin/Murphy this is the DEFINITIVE San Francisco movie. Deal?

Bullitt is Steve McQueen's finest film for the following reasons: 1) Playing a rebellious cop gives him the starring role that most closely fit his personna as an anti-hero. 2) Frank Bullitt is perhaps the finest acting performance of his career (though his one Oscar nominaton was for Navy sailor Jake Holman in "The Sand Pebbles). 3) The supporting cast is superb, from smarmy district attorney Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughan) and the assorted bad guys, to Lieutenant Bullitt's sidekick (Don Gordon) and his suuperior captains (Simon Oakland and Norman Fell), 4) The script is very tightly written. The movie starts on a Friday night and ends the following Monday morning. Most of the action is from Saturday night to Sunday night. 5) The musical score by Lalo Schifrin is fantastic, superbly highlighting every scene in which it is heard, especially, the music during the preliminary scenes to the classic car chase. 6) The car chase is a doozy, rightfully called "the grandfather of all movie car chases." 7) The site of almost all the action, San Francisco, is beautifully photographed.