Bullitt Bullitt Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni. The picture stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. The screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner was based on the 1963 novel, "Mute Witness", by Robert L. Fish, writing under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike. Lalo Schifrin wrote the original jazz-inspired score, arranged for brass and percussion. Robert Duvall has a small role as a cab driver who provides information to McQueen. The film was made by McQueen's Solar Productions company, with his partner Robert E. Relyea as executive producer.
The Sand Pebbles (film) York Times", and "Life" magazine. It rained the night of the premiere, December 20, 1966, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Afterwards, McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins that he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made "The Sand Pebbles". The performance earned McQueen the only Academy Award nomination of his career. He was not seen on film again until two 1968 films, "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt" (which included his fellow "Sand Pebbles" actor Simon Oakland as Bullitt's boss).