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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.
Summaries. During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble. Kowalski, who works for a car-delivery service, takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in under 15 hours.
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 dealer:...
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Vanishing Point's plot was simplicity in and of itself: a professional driver (Barry Newman) attempts to race the 1,300 miles from Denver to San Francisco in only 15 hours, eluding and thwarting state police efforts to stop him along the way and aided in his increasingly existential quest by a blind disc jockey (Cleavon Little) and a growing ...
The vanishing point theorem is the principal theorem in the science of perspective. It says that the image in a picture plane π of a line L in space, not parallel to the picture, is determined by its intersection with π and its vanishing point. Some authors have used the phrase, "the image of a line includes its vanishing point".
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.
