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Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. It focuses on a disaffected ex-policeman and race driver delivering a muscle car cross-country to California while high on speed ("uppers" in the story), being chased by police, and meeting various characters ...
Mar 13, 1971 · Vanishing Point: Directed by Richard C. Sarafian. With Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger. During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.
A vanishing point is a point on the image plane of a perspective rendering where the two-dimensional perspective projections of mutually parallel lines in three-dimensional space appear to converge.
A car delivery driver leads the police on a merry chase to win a bet.
Vanishing Point is directed by Richard Sarafian and written by Guillermo Cain. It stars Barry Newman, Cleavon Little and Dean. Jagger. Car delivery driver Kowalski (Newman) tasks himself to get a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in a seemingly impossible time.
Synopsis. Barry Newman plays a car delivery driver named Kowalski who works for Argo's Car Delivery Service in Denver, Colorado and is assigned to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger to San Francisco.
Vietnam War hero Kowalski (Barry Newman) has become a pill-addicted driver for hire. Transporting a car from Colorado to California, he enlivens the journey by making a wager with his drug...
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Vanishing Point - Metacritic. 1971. PG. Twentieth Century Fox. 1 h 39 m. Summary During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops. Action. Crime. Thriller. Directed By: Richard C. Sarafian. Written By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Malcolm Hart, Barry Hall.
When a drug-fuelled car delivery driver gets into trouble with Highway Patrol, he has to burn rubber... A trip in every sense of the word, Richard C. Sarafian’s movie combines the hedonistic counterculture of the early 1970s with the ultimate speed-freak fantasy: the lone road trip across the US.
Kowalski is the last American hero, a man setting out to prove he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in just fifteen hours. Along the way, while recalling episodes from his past, Kowalski meets an old prospector, a nude woman on a motorcycle, and a blind D.J., who “sees” that danger is ahead….
