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Malcolm Hart

Better than Fast and Furious: ‘Vanishing Point’
Vanishing Point

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian

Written by Guillermo Cabrera Infante from a story outline by Malcom Hart

1971, USA

Belonging to countless late-sixties, early-Seventies American counterculture road films, Vanishing Point quickly became a cult classic of the car-movie genre. Richard Sarafian directed this minimalist chase film, starring Barry Newman as Kowalski, an ex-marine, ex-race car driver and ex-cop behind the wheel of a Dodge Charger – who must deliver the automobile from Colorado to San Francisco in less than 15 hours. After a run-in with highway patrol, a state-wide chase ensues. Along the way, Kowalski is aided by Super Soul – a blind, radio DJ who guides his journey using a police radio scanner. Much like Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969) and Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Vanishing Point sought to illustrate the tensions between the counterculture and the establishment, and in this case, across four states

Credit to script writer Guillermo Cain...
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  • 5/30/2013
  • by Ricky da Conceição
  • SoundOnSight
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