Bullitt (1968) Poster, French, First French release 1969

Bullitt (1968) Poster, French, First French release 1969

Artist: Michel Landi (b. 1932)

Unframed: 63 x 47 in. (160 x 119 cm)

Michel Landi's cool artwork was used on both this large and the smaller French posters. Owing to the size and scale of this large poster Steve McQueen is almost life-size, giving the piece a very strong presence.

This poster was designed to be pasted on billboards, and therefore only unused examples survived.

This action thriller was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. It is undoubtedly Steve McQueen's most famous role, where he plays San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt. Bullitt and his team are given the important task of guarding, who they think is, mobster Johnny Ross over the weekend, as Ross is due to give evidence on the Monday, in a Senate subcommittee hearing on organised crime. Things don't go quite to plan when two hitmen burst in and shoot Ross, who later dies in hospital. Bullitt is then determined to find who was behind killing the witness in his protection, and in doing so a bigger story unfolds. The other star of the film is the 1968 Ford Mustang, which Bullitt drives in the exciting, and now classic car chase scenes.