BULLBIT

BULLITT (1968)
dir: Peter Yates

BULLBIT
MAD #127, June 1969
w: Al Jaffee
a: Mort Drucker

The only movie parody ever written by Al Jaffee, MAD's most prolific contributor and currently America's oldest living cartoonist. He will be 100 on the 14th of this month and get his own post then.

Lt. Bullitt (Steve McQueen) and his task force have been assigned by San Francisco politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) to protect mobster John Ross (Pat Renella) for the weekend so he'll be around to testify before the Senate on Monday morning.

Ross is placed in the a cheap hotel while officers Delgetti (Don Gordon) and Stanton (Carl Reindel) take turns watching over him.

Bullitt reminds them of their assignment before going home to his girlfriend Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset). During Stanton's shift, Ross leaves and he is immediately shot by hitmen. During Stanton's shift Ross leaves and his shot. Bullitt, being in command and therefore responsible for the incident, is called back in to work.

(Actually they're both shot when the hitmen come up to the room. YouTube won't let me embed this. Too gory I guess).

Now Bullitt decides to cover up the fact that Ross was shot and continues having his men watch over him in the hospital. Ross is shot again, Bullitt sees the killer, and a long chase through the hospital ensues...

...then an even longer car chase, which set the standard for car chases in later movies.

(I can't read the writing on the streetcar either. Sorry for the low-res scan)

The killer is about to leave the country, which leads to another chase on foot at the airport.

Shame on MAD for doing a movie that has both Norman Fell and Vic Tayback in it and not including either of them.

BULLET
Cracked #78, August 1969
a: John Severin

The guy in the picture is David McCallum, Robert Vaughn's co-star in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Tickets to a policeman's ball are always something they mention in comedy bits but I don't think they really exist.