Movie Night - Vanishing Point

1970 Dodge Challenger, Colorado tags OA-5599

With a beginning that brings to mind the Ouroborus, Vanishing Point begins with the California Highway Patrol setting up a roadblock consisting of two bulldozers and many police cruisers.

On the horizon, we see a white 1970 Dodge Challenger, racing towards the roadblock.

Screeching to a halt, the Challenger turns around to race back down the road from where it came, passing a black Chrysler Imperial on Sunday at 10:02 AM.

Barry Newman as Kowalski

The film then backtracks and begins to tell the story of Kowalski, who pulls into a garage in Denver, Colorado at 11:30 PM on Friday, delivering a black Chrysler Imperial from San Francisco, California to Argo's Car Delivery Service.

He asks for another car to deliver back to San Francisco that night, which his supervisor is reluctant to do, since Kowalski hasn't slept.

Kowalski insists and is given a white 1970 Dodge Challenger to deliver.

After a stop at his drug dealers hangout to pick up Benzedrine, a powerful stimulant, Kowalski makes a bet that he can be in San Francisco by 3 PM the next day.

As he speeds toward his destination, Kowalski attracts the attention of the various highway patrols in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California, always racing onward.

Cleavon Little as Super Soul

Along the way, a blind DJ from Goldfield, Nevada named Super Soul, who uses a police radio scanner to track the chase, begins to root for Kowalski to get away and begins broadcasting instructions and encouragement.

This moody piece of cinema is a cult classic amongst gearheads.

You should...

...Check it out!!!  (WP)(AMG)(IMDB)