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Vanishing Point (Original title)
Date: 1971 (Copyright)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom

Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian

Synopsis: Car-chase drama. Kowalski bets a friend that he will deliver a car from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. Incidents on the journey remind him of his past; but in California he hits a road-block of bulldozers and his car goes up in flames.

Genre:
Road movie

Subject:
Motor cars
Releases
Date: 1971Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8887 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (29)
©: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Presents: Cupid Productions, Executive Producer: Michael Pearson, Produced by: Norman Spencer, Unit Production Manager: Francisco Day, Production Administrator: Maurice Unger, Creative Associate: Iain Quarrier, Associate to Mr [Richard C.] Sarafian: Michael McLean, Assistant Director: Richard Glassman, Casting Supervision: Michael McLean, Screenplay by: Guillermo Cain, From a story outline by: Malcolm Hart, Director of Photography: John A. Alonzo, Film Editor: Stefan Arnsten, Set Decoration: Glen Daniels, Jerry Wunderlich, Property Master: Dennis Parrish, Wardrobe Master: Ed Wynigear, Make-up: Del Acevedo, Colour by: DeLuxe, Music Produced and Supervised by: Jimmy Bowen, Musical Associate: Pete Carpenter, Tom Thacker, Sound Mixer: Bill Edmondson, Sound Mixer: Tom Edwards, Theodore Soderberg, Stunt Co-ordination: Cary Loftin, Louis Elias
Cast (22)
Barry Newman (Kowalski), Dean Jagger (prospector), Victoria Medlin (Vera), Paul Koslo (young cop), Robert Donner (older cop), Tim Scott (Angel), Anthony James (1st male hitch-hiker), Arthur Malet (2nd male hitch-hiker), Lee Weaver (Jake), Karl Swenson (Sandy, clerk at delivery agency), Severn Darden (J. Hovah), Gilda Texter (nude rider), Tom Reese (sheriff), Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (J. Hovah's singers), Cleavon Little (Super Soul), Cherie Foster (1st girl), Valerie Kairys (2nd girl), Owen Bush (communications officer), James Griffith, Nancie Phillips, Norman Alden ([]), Charlotte Rampling ([hitchhiker, scenes deleted])