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 investigators of the Zodiac Killer murders that began shortly after the release of "Bullitt". Toschi is played by Mark Ruffalo in the film "Zodiac", in which Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) mentions that "McQueen got the idea for the holster from Toschi." "Bullitt" is notable for its extensive use of actual locations rather than studio sets, and its attention to procedural detail, from police evidence processing to emergency room procedures. Director Yates' use of new lightweight Arriflex cameras allowed for greater flexibility in location shooting. At the time of the film's release, the car chase scene generated prodigious excitement. Leonard