Celebrate Mustang's 50th birthday

Oct. 28, 2013 - PRLog -- THE FAMOUS BULLITT CHASE SCENE:
Steve McQueen's dark green fastback, subtly tweaked to fit his personification of cool, is part of automotive lore and central to the Mustang myth. At the time of the film's release, the car chase scene generated a great amount of excitement. Leonard Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best." Emanuel Levy wrote in 2003 that, "Bullitt contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood's standards." In his obituary for Peter Yates, Bruce Weber wrote "Mr. Yates’ reputation probably rests most securely on “Bullitt” (1968), his first American film – and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic." The editing of this scene likely won editor Frank P. Keller the Academy Award for Best Editing.Later, producer Philip D'Antoni filmed two more car chases for The French Connection andThe Seven-Ups, both set and filmed in New York City.

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