dual personalities

The dual personalities are meeting in San Francisco this weekend, so I will not be able to post a Friday movie pic on Friday. In honor of our foray to the west coast, I suggest watching Bullitt (1968) directed by Peter Yates and starring (drum roll please) Steve McQueen.

Bullitt is my soulmate’s favorite movie of all time. Really. So I am picturing him watching it all weekend on a loop as consolation. I have slept through this movie numerous times. Robert Vaughn, who plays politician Walter Chalmers, received the script and didn’t like it. He felt that there was no plot nor a sensible storyline, and he was right! It is like a bad t.v. movie with a car chase. And although it is a famous, ground-breaking car chase, it is also a hysterically funny one.

Check out all the goofs here and here in this riotous ride which takes place over a number of non-contiguous streets in and south of San Francisco. There is a slow-moving VW bug, appearing and disappearing throughout the scene, which never fails to amuse.

Yes, the movie is thin, but it is worth viewing solely because of the always wonderful Steve McQueen. No one ever looked better in in a shoulder holster.