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Actors: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo Director: Richard C. Sarafian Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 98 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: February 3, 2004 Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1971 Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
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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
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
