Vanishing Point (1971 film)

Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger.

A car delivery driver, Kowalski Barry Newman, arrives in Denver, Colorado late Friday night with a black Chrysler Imperial. The delivery service clerk, Sandy Karl Swenson, urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger RT 440 Magnum to San Francisco by Monday. Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to buy Benzedrine pills to stay awake for the long drive ahead. He bets his dealer, Jake Lee Weaver, that he will get to San Francisco by 300 pm tomorrow, even though the delivery is not due until Monday. Distance between the towns is approximately 1,000 miles 1,600km by road.Kowalski is a Medal of Honor Vietnam War veteran and former race car driver and motorcycle racer. He is also a former police officer, who was dishonorably discharged in retaliation for preventing his partner from raping a young woman. Haunted by the surfing death of his girlfriend, Vera, Kowalski now thrives on adrenaline. ........

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