Vanishing Point

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Summary: Vanishing Point
Review: This is a must for any racing collector !
I have been looking for it for for years and found it here and scooped it up!
I'll never sell it, now that I have in my collection!

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Summary: The Last Free Man On Earth
Review: I first saw this movie at a drive-in back in 1971 playing along w/ The French Connection. From that moment on, I was a Vanishing Point and Dodge Challenger fan. I loved the 'feel' of this movie - the last cowboy on earth who was part of the establishment now trying to outrun it, the openness of the American west, the sound of a big-block MOPAR.. just wonderful... maybe there's just a little bit of Kowalski in all of us...
Just found out they're re-making the 1971 version for release in 2006. Scott Free Entertainment and 20th Century Fox are remaking the film with Samuel Bayer set to direct.




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Summary: MoPar Rules!
Review: If you are a MoPar Maniac like I am then the story line is meaningless. The fact that there is a Challenger R/T Big Block tearing up the road is all that matters. Otherwise the movies OK.

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Summary: Light s-Camera- Mopars
Review: This is "the movie" to buy~Weather or not your "Mopar" fan~It has it all~Action,"NON"polictically correct,the drugs,hippies,
redneck cops and jesus freaks that all seemed so common in the 70's.As good today as when I saw it in 71.It has a theme and a good story line.Sond track included some music and artist before they ever hit the top 40~

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Summary: amazing big block fun and seriousness
Review: This movie, taken in it's context, delivers. Pure and simple. It delivers. The sound, the emotion, the bravado and the longing of lost love come together in this amzaingly filmed pic. I have lived and died by this flick all my life, and will endevour to have a white 1970 challenger for as long as I live. Enjoy. The best is yet to come. Cara

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Summary: Not for everyone, high on concept, low on plot
Review: VANISHING POINT is a strange, hard-to-categorize movie, that is highly memorable. Barry Newman plays a driven man who has assigned himself the mission of getting a muscle car from Point A to Point B in record time. This, of course, means bending or breaking many rules. The car chases are action-filled and the stunts are great. Newman's character is a rebel-hero or anti-hero. The ending has two, or more possible interpretations: one mundane one, that is frustrating for those who side with Newman on his manufactured quest; another ending-interpretation is more transcendent and noble. In this sense, it has a parallel to THE LAST EMPEROR, which also has a startling ending with more than one possible interpretation. I find VANISHING POINT to be a movie that is interesting and memorable, but I'm not interested in spending money so that I can have it to watch repeatedly.

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Summary: 34years later--still holds up!
Review: I first saw this, accidently, as past of a double feature not too long after I finished my USAF tour of duty and was in grad school. At first, being a former jet jockey--as we said then--I was really blown away by the car and the stunts...and, a good to really good soundtrack that had several folks who went on to bigger things. I even got a white R/T Challenger. But, then I realized how Kowasksi,like many of us, had walked the straight and narrow and then the shady side of the street. But,he could not find the answer/an answer in either venue. So, he chose death. How close many people have come to that point---the vanishing point. I look at today's drug culture (culture?); the gays; the religious zealots; the racism; the drop-outs (aka slackers)and I believe little has changed. The movie, with different clothing a a few modernisms, could be made today and be as compelling and accurate. But, where do you find a car like the white Challenger?