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Pinkerton detectives, known as "operatives," initiated the practice of keeping suspect files ("has scar on left hand," and lives with "a Hooker named Frisco Ann"). As for doctrine, operatives subscribed to the "General Principles," including one that read, "The ends justify the means." The agency was the self-expression of a man who got up at 4:30 a.m., was in bed by 8:30 p.m., and whose idea of an acting disguise (for himself) was as a "jovial, friendly" social drinker. "I must get my way in all things," he once confessed firmly, showing a taste for the fanatic...
...McQueen film would be complete without a chase scene; Bullitt provides two. The first is a thumping, screeching sports-car slalom over the Frisco hills. The second, on foot, dodges between whining jets at the airport and ends with McQueen pulling a gun-strangely enough, considering the violence, for the first time in the picture-to cut down his quarry and win his little war. In the end, Vaughn skulks off in a car with the ironic bumper sticker: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. If they were all like Bullitt, everyone could and would...
...only one clearly enjoying himself is Director Lester, who has unabashedly used the story as a pretext to gleek, glom and glare at the Frisco scene with his cameras. "My apartment's only four blocks from here," says the doctor. He and Petulia go to a super de luxe motel instead, allowing Lester to display the automated checkin, the key that lights up when you reach your door, and the vibrating double bed. When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that...
Left my home in Georgia; headed for the Frisco Bay. I have nothin' to live for; look like nothin' gonna come my way. So I'm just gonna set on the dock of the bay; watch the tide roll away...
...button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...