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Harry Kleiner has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Bullitt.
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Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Dir. Lee H. Katzin · With Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien

Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a crew of rogue soldiers descends upon the border town for an off-the-books mission, all roads lead to a bloody, to-the-death showdown, as loyalties shift and the lines between good and evil are blurred.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
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