Lt. Frank Bullitt

Bullitt (1968)

SFPD Det. Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) is a trusted veteran cop, a tight-lipped man who is a personification of cool.

Quotes

Bullitt: You sell whatever you want, but don't sell it here tonight.

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Chalmers: Frank, we must all compromise.
Bullitt: Bullshit.

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Bullitt: Look, Chalmers, let's understand each other... I don't like you.

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Chalmers: Lieutenant, don't try to evade the responsibility. In your... parlance, you blew it. You knew the significance of his testimony, yet you failed to take adequate measures to protect him. So, to you, it was a job, no more. Were it more, and you had the dedication I was led to believe... 
Bullitt: You believe what you want. You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine.

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Bullitt: Who else knew where he was?

Chalmers: What?

Bullitt: Who else knew where he was?

Chalmers: What are you implying?

Bullitt: Well, they knew where to look for him, and they used your name to get in.

Chalmers: Are you suggesting I disclosed his whereabouts?

Bullitt: Well, somebody did. And it didn't come from us.

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Bullitt: [revealing Johnny Ross' death] I've got him downstairs, under a John Doe.
Baker: [stunned] You are sick. Smuggling a dead man out of a hospital, and now two men killed who may have had nothing to do with it?
Bullitt: The man I was chasing killed Ross.
Captain Bennet: How do you know? Did you see him?
Bullitt: Yes. He tried to nail me with a shotgun, a Winchester pump.
Baker: The radio report said the two men were burned beyond recognition. Now all he's got are two dead men. It would never hold up in court.