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",
Kay Bullitt attended Radcliffe College which both her mother and sister had attended. While in college, Bullitt worked in a community center in Cambridge which primarily serviced African-American children. Kay's sister had written her thesis on the difference between African-American students from Barbados and the South. Kay's own senior thesis was on the role of Federal Government in Education. During World War II, Bullitt spent a summer at the Hampton Institute in Virginia as part of an interracial farm project. Bullitt was also active with the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice. After the end of World War II, Bullitt worked in Germany for