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",
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).