Bullitt sees her sleeping in his bedroom but does not wake her. He takes off his shoulder holster and balances it on a banister. As he begins to wash up at his bathroom sink, he looks up into his own reflection in the mirror and contemplates himself ruefully just before the movie ends with a camera shot of his ammo clip. "Bullitt" was co-produced by McQueen's Solar Productions and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, the film pitched to Jack L. Warner as "doing authority differently." "Bullitt" was director Yates' first American film. He was hired after McQueen saw his 1967 UK feature, "Robbery",
Bullitt Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best." Emanuel Levy wrote in 2003 that, ""Bullitt" contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood's standards." In his obituary for Peter Yates, Bruce Weber wrote, "Mr. Yates’ reputation probably rests most securely on "Bullitt" (1968), his first American film – and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic." The chase scene starts at 1h:05m into the film. The total time of the scene is 10 minutes and 53 seconds, beginning in