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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: NEWMAN,BARRY EAN: 0024543110408 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Fox Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 03, 2004 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1971 Sales Rank: 544 MPN: 024543110408
Product Description: When an ex-cop and race car driver named Kowalski makes a bet that he can deliver a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco in less than fifteen hours he meets a variety of colorful characters along the way and is soon chased by the police. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 6-FEB-2007 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Art film and road movie collide for Vanishing Point, an existential car chase across the desert in a post Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a taciturn driver who bets that he can drive a new Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He loads up on amphetamines and begins his odyssey through the contemporary west while a funky black DJ (Cleavon Little) turns the driver into a folk hero and broadcasts advice on dodging the cops. It's like a counterculture precursor to Smokey and the Bandit, with the road as the last bastion of freedom and the DJ as a combination commentator and mystical guide. The slim plot offers a network of society drop-outs that aid the "last free Man on Earth" (as the DJ describes him) on his obscure but obviously symbolic quest while flashbacks paint Kowalski as a world-weary hero. It doesn't really make much sense, but the amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are stunningly set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Vanishing Point is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - vanishing point
good quality dvd ... cult classic
if only dodge would finally come out with their promised new v6 challenger for fuel economy and nostalgia for us old guys.
Rating: - Classic Car Lover's Movie
If you love cars and movies with no real purpose this is a must see movie. Any diehard car fan will appreciate the thrill of watching a Dodge Challenger running across the western country side. The ending ... Read More
Rating: - cult movie
Good Picture Quality, Good Sound Quality, Excallent Remake On DVD of an old early 70's movie.
Rating: - one of the greatest car movies of all time
Lots of great chase scenes, and action. This movie shows the spirit of the American Muscle car.
Rating: - Excellent movie whether you're a car guy or not!
I rented Vanishing Point because I'm a car nut, and especially like the old muscle cars of the '60s and '70s like the 1970 Dodge Challenger that's driven in the film. The movie definately satisfies the car ... Read More
- vanishing point
- Classic Car Lover's Movie