Vanishing Point
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Directed by	Richard C. Sarafian
Produced by	Norman Spencer Michael Pearson
Written by	Guillermo Cain Malcolm Hart (story outline) Barry Hall (uncredited)
Starring	Barry Newman Cleavon Little Dean Jagger Victoria Medlin Charlotte Rampling
Music by	Kim Carnes Delaney, Bonnie & Friends Pete Carpenter Mike Post Jimmy Bowen
Cinematography	John A. Alonzo
Editing by	Stefan Arnsten
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	January 15, 1971
Running time	106 min. (approx.)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,300,000
Gross revenue	$12,442,673
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Vanishing Point is notable for its scenery from filming locations across the American Southwest and its social commentary on the post-Woodstock mood in the United States. It was one of the earliest films (following on the example of Easy Rider), to feature a rock music soundtrack. It is beloved by Mopar enthusiasts because it is one of the most significant movies ever to feature a classic Dodge muscle car. The film continues to be popular to this day and is considered a cult film. The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... Woodstock redirects here. ... Wyatt, Mary (Toni Basil), Billy and Karen (Karen Black) wandering the streets of a parade filled New Orleans. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... Mopar (short for MOtor PARts) is the automobile parts and service arm of Chrysler Group. ... Dodge is a North American brand of automobiles and light to heavy-duty trucks from Chrysler, sold globally. ... The Pontiac GTO is a classic example of the muscle car. ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...

Synopsis

Barry Newman plays a delivery driver named Jimmy Kowalski (his first name is never given throughout the movie) who works for Argo's Car Delivery Service in Denver, Colorado. Flashbacks which appear throughout the movie hint that he has either lost everything he has ever wanted and was reduced to taking the job of a car delivery driver as a last resort, or he is (what is called today) an adrenaline junkie. He is a Vietnam veteran, a former law enforcement officer, former race car driver, and former motorcycle racer. He lost his job as a cop apparently after being framed in a drug bust, in retaliation for his preventing his partner from raping a young girl. He seemingly gave up his automobile and motorcycle racing careers after two near-fatal accidents. His girlfriend lost her life in a surfing accident. Barry Newman (born November 7, 1938) is an American actor best known for the character Anthony Petrocelli on the TV crime-drama Petrocelli, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... For the band, see The Police. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... For other uses, see Motorcycle (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Surfing (disambiguation). ...

As the movie opens, Kowalski is near the end of his chase by the California Highway Patrol, where the two bulldozers are setting up, and the CBS News truck arrives, after seeing the bulldozers, he decides to turn around, but there are more Patrol cars closing in. He then drives off the road, stops and gets out to think, then gets back into the car and continues to drive back towards the roadblock. The movie does a freeze frame, and when movement resumes, Kowalski has vanished at 10:02 AM. // The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state agency that acts as the state police force of California. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (tractor) equipped with a blade. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (tractor) equipped with a blade. ...

The movie then flashes back to Denver, Colorado, two days earlier, where his journey began. He has just arrived in Denver with a 1970 Chrysler New Yorker, he is delivering from San Francisco, and asks for another assignment. His supervisor objects and insists Kowalski get some rest, but Kowalski insists on taking on another delivery that night. It is already 11:30 PM. Kowalski is assigned to deliver an "Alpine White" 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T hardtop, 4-speed manual transmission with a Hurst "Pistol Grip" shifter, controlling either a 383 or a 440 cubic inch "Magnum" V-8 engine (Which Police later mistakenly report is "Supercharged"), bearing Colorado license plate number OA-5599. Kowalski is delivering this car to San Francisco. After stopping at a biker bar to buy some benzedrine and making a bet with a drug dealing friend Jake (Lee Weaver) over how long it will take him to make it to San Francisco, he is on his way and takes off at high speed out of Denver. Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... This article refers to the state capital of Colorado. ... Year 1970 ([[Rf 1970 == January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles oman numerals|MCMLXX]]) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Chrysler New Yorker was a premium automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation from 1939 to 1996, serving for several years as the brands flagship model. ... Year 1970 ([[Rf 1970 == January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles oman numerals|MCMLXX]]) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dodge Challenger is the name of three different automobile models marketed by the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corporation since the 1970s. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

It doesn't take the police long before they begin to give chase later that morning near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Now with two police motorcycles in the rear view mirror, Kowalski runs one of the police motorcycles off the road. Seeing this, Kowalski stops and has a flashback of himself wiping out during one of his dirt track races. Seeing the officer is unhurt, Kowalski takes off. Grand Avenue, Glenwood Springs Hot Springs Pool at Glenwood Springs, Colorado Glenwood Springs view towards south as seen from Glenwood Caverns, Colorado Glenwood Springs is a city in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ...

Kowalski winds up being chased across the states of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, with the police unable to catch him. The whole way, Kowalski has his radio tuned to the station KOW, which is broadcasting out of Goldfield, Nevada. An African-American DJ at KOW known as Super Soul listens to the police radio frequency and helps Kowalski evade the police by broadcasting information on the police whereabouts over the radio. Relatively quickly, it becomes apparent that Super Soul and Kowalski have some sort of telepathic link, where Super Soul can ask question to Kowalski over the air, and can "hear" Kowalski's spoken replies. Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... Location of Goldfield in Nevada. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ...

With the help of Super Soul, who calls Kowalski "the last American hero" on his radio show, Kowalski begins to gain national attention as a cult hero among the counterculture during the chase. Bikers and hippies flock to KOW radio in Goldfield to offer support. Kowalski is helped by others including an old man and a Pentecostal sect. In the afternoon, Super Soul is physically attacked by a cop and several probable Ku Klux Klan "klansmen" (see secret handshake of recognition) and KOW is forced off the air. Near the California state line, Kowalski is helped by a biker and his naturist girlfriend (the same girl he saved from being raped in San Diego). They give him more benzedrine and help smuggle him across the California state line where the police have set up a roadblock waiting for him that evening. By next morning, Kowalski has made it as far as Cisco, California (a fictional town in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of San Francisco). The closest actual towns would be Copperopolis and Angels Camp where, with the California Highway Patrol in hot pursuit, Kowalski re-enacts the movie's opening, but this time, instead of "vanishing", at 10:04 a.m., he runs into the two bulldozers set up by the police as a roadblock, producing the fatal fireball of his death, the sequence for which the movie is often remembered. // The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a period between 1960 and 1973[1] that began in the United States as a reaction against the conservative social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold War period, and the US governments extensive military... Singer of a modern Hippie movement in Russia The hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The meanings of naturism and nudism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and public spaces. ... This article is about the mountain range in the Western United States. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Copperopolis is a census-designated place located in Calaveras County, California. ... Angels Camp, also known as City of Angels, is the only incorporated city in Calaveras County, California. ...

Despite Kowalski's new cult hero status among the counterculture, he repeatedly shows he doesn't want that status during the movie; Kowalski is at heart either a true "loner" or a despondent blue-collar worker. A blue-collar worker is a member of the working class who performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage. ...

Cast and Crew

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Production

• The script originally had the Super Soul character written as "Super Spic" but it was deemed too racist and didn't fit with Cleavon Little, who was cast for it.

• Due to budget constraints, and the fact that the Dodge Challengers used in the film were "on loan" from Chrysler Corporation, the car used in the crash scene at the end of the film is a derelict 1967 Chevrolet Camaro.

• Although Cisco is a real location in California, the Cisco scenes were filmed in Cisco, Utah, a ghost town near Moab. The chase involving Kowalski and the police includes actual footage from Rifle, Colorado; Thompson Springs, Utah; Green River, Utah; Austin, Nevada; Wendover, Utah; and Tonopah, Nevada. The film is notable for actually having been filmed in the locations in which the movie was set, and as a result, features incredible footage of the desert and the small towns in the region during the pre-Interstate Highway era.

• The car was not supercharged nor turbocharged as commonly misconceived, but normally aspirated with the single quad (4 barrel) 440/375 horse. The cameras were undercranked in some scenes to give the illusion of high speed. Also some chase scenes had high speed engine noises over-dubbed in portions of the sound track.

• A total of five 1970 Dodge Challengers were supplied to Cupid Productions by Chrysler Corporation. Four were identically equipped with 4-speed, 440 engines. The fifth Challenger was equipped with a 383 engine and automatic transmission, and was used primarily on the camera runs. After the picture wrapped, only one Challenger was still in service, as the other four were virtually destroyed during production filming. (On the 2005 DVD release, director Richard Sarafian commented that there were a total of nine Challengers used during production. However, in a March 1986 Muscle Car Review magazine interview, both Barry Newman and stunt driver Carey Loftin concurred that there were only five).

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The ending

The ending, and related to this, the overall theme of the film, has been the source of much debate. The viewer is left guessing why Kowalski suddenly decided to drive recklessly and evade the police across four states to his death. Kowalski himself says little during the movie.

Barry Newman offers a different interpretation of the film's ending. In an interview printed in the March 1986 issue of Musclecar Review he says "Kowalski smiles as he rushes to his death at the end of Vanishing Point because he believes he will make it through the roadblock." Presumably, Newman believes that a combination of Kowalski's drug-induced frame of mind and the blinding light from the bulldozer blades prevents him from seeing that he has no chance.

The August 2006 issue of Motor Trend magazine has a sidebar with Newman, in which he offers a newer explanation that is more in line with the "constraints of the physical world" theory more so than the "drug-induced haze" theory. Newman explains that Kowalski sees the light glinting from between the two bulldozers... to Kowalski, it was still a hole to escape through. It symbolised that no matter how far they push or chase you, no one can truly take away your freedom and there is always an escape. Newman also theorised that the entire film itself was an essay on existentialism. Kowalski drives to drive, with no real purpose for doing what he's doing. He decides to give his own life its definition and meaning, with complete freedom over his actions. Motor Trend is one of the oldest automotive magazines still publishing. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings and essence of their own lives. ...

Interestingly, the original shooting script describes that moments before impact, Kowalski slams both feet onto the brakes, trying to stop the car, but fails. (However, seeing as how this is not portrayed in the movie, it is not as things "really" happened, and therefore is just trivia).

Sarafian explained that he wanted to make Kowalski appear outerworldly, and that the world within the film was a temporary existence that he was just making a stop in. And that the ending of the film, he was ascending from this existence into another (and even points out that the lyrics of the end song point this out, "when the light of life stops burning, till another soul goes free").^[1]

Alternate versions

The current U.S. DVD release of Vanishing Point includes both the original version of the movie and the alternate version. In the alternate version Kowalski picks up a hitchhiker (played by Charlotte Rampling) after being smuggled across the California/Nevada border, filling in the story of that evening. According to interviews with Barry Newman and commentary from the director, the hitchhiker was a representation of Death, finally catching up to Kowalski. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Hitchhiking (also called lifting or thumbing) is a form of transport, in which the traveller tries to get a lift (ride) from another traveller, usually a car or truck driver. ... Rampling modeling on a Mickey Spillane book cover, 1972. ...

Soundtrack

Vanishing Point Soundtrack
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released	January 15, 1971
Recorded	1970
Genre	Country Hard rock Pop Rock
Label	A&M Amos
Producer	Pete Carpenter Mike Post Jimmy Bowen Tom Thacker

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Track listing

1. "Super Soul Theme" - The J.B. Pickers - 1:50 (Bowen)
2. "The Girl Done Got It Together" - Bobby Doyle - 2:47 (Settle)
3. "Where Do We Go From Here?" - Jimmy Walker - 2:53 (Settle)
4. "Freedom of Expression" - The J.B. Pickers - 5:48 (Bowen)
5. "Welcome to Nevada" - Jerry Reed - 1:52 (Barnhill/Lanier)
6. "Runaway Country" - Doug Dillard Expedition - 4:09 (Dillard/Berline)
7. "Love Theme" - Jimmy Bowen Orchestra - 2:40 (Bowen/Carpenter)
8. "You Got to Believe" - Delaney, Bonnie & Friends - 3:00 (Bramlett/Bon)
9. "So Tired" - Eve - 2:10 (Creamer/Sliwin/Temmer)
10. "Mississippi Queen" - Mountain - 2:32 (West/Laing/Pappalardi/Rea/Knight)
11. "I Can't Believe It" - Longbranch Pennywhistle - (Frey/Souther/Seger/Browne)
12. "Dear Jesus God" - Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop - 3:57 (Segarini/Bishop)
13. "Sing Out for Jesus" - Big Mama Thornton - 1:47 (Carnes)
14. "Sweet Jesus" - Red Steagall -
15. "Over Me" - Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop - 3:04 (Segarini/Bishop)
16. "Nobody Knows" - Kim & Dave - 2:22 (Settle)

The first ever recorded material by Kim Carnes appears in the soundtrack, credited as "Kim & Dave". Kim Carnes also wrote the song performed by Big Mama Thornton. The pop music group Delaney, Bonnie & Friends had a small role as a Christian music band, which included singer Rita Coolidge and singer/songwriter David Gates at the piano. Bobby Doyle is a former Gaelic football player for Dublin. ... For other persons named James Walker, see James Walker (disambiguation). ... Jerry Reed Hubbard (born March 20, 1937) is an American country music singer, country guitarist, songwriter, and actor. ... Dillards is also a department store chain in the United States. ... Jimmy Bowen began as a teenage recording star in 1957 with Im Stickin With You, originally the flip side of the hit record Party Doll by Buddy Knox, but ultimately a Top 20 recording on its own. ... Delaney & Bonnie and Friends was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. ... Look up eve in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mississippi Queen is a song originally done by the band Mountain (band). ... Mountain is an American rock band, popular in the early 1970s. ... Longbranch Pennywhistle was a folk duo consisting of Glenn Frey and John David Souther. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Willa Mae (Big Mama) Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American Blues and R&B singer. ... Russell (Red) Steagall (December 22, 1937 - )is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 in Pasadena, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter. ... Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 in Pasadena, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter. ... Willa Mae (Big Mama) Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American Blues and R&B singer. ... Delaney & Bonnie and Friends was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is a Grammy Award winning American Singer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Tracks "I Can't Believe it" and "Sweet Jesus" are not on the original LP Soundtrack.

Miscellanea

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• The license plate on Kowalski's Dodge Challenger is Colorado OA-5599. This license plate number has been highly sought after as a vanity plate ever since the film's release.
• Kowalski plans to drive from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. This would require an average speed of 85 miles per hour.
• A one twenty-fifth scale plastic model kit of the Vanishing Point was produced by AMT, and re-released many times since. Although a good representation of the car can be made by the experienced modeller, the model utilises a 440 Six-Pack, rather than a 440 Magnum.
• The vehicles used for filming included four 440 4-speed cars and one 383 automatic. There were no 426 Hemis used in filming.

Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... OA-5599 is actually a supercharged alphine white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with 440 Magnum Six Pack with 4-speed manual transmission equipped with pistol grip used in the movie Vanishing Point which actually starred Barry Newman as Jimmy Kowalski. ... A vanity plate (US), prestige plate, private number plate, personalised registration (UK) or personalised plate (Australia and New Zealand) is a special type of vehicle registration plate on an automobile or other vehicle. ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... A GMC Astro tractor-trailer model from AMT Aluminum Metal Toys, or AMT for short, is a Troy, Michigan-based company that manufactures various plastic models, particularly those of big trucks. ...

References in popular culture

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• The film was the inspiration for the 1997 album by Primal Scream, also titled Vanishing Point. In addition, a track from the album was named Kowalski after the character from the film; the track also featured samples of Super Soul's "last American hero" speech from the film.
• The film was the basis for Audioslave's 2004 music video "Show Me How to Live", which included members of the band in the 1970 Challenger travelling across the desert, following the plot of the movie.
• A reference to the movie can be found on Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II album track "Breakdown". This is a spoken-word part, mimicking Super Soul's voice, in the end of the song, in which one of Super Soul's on-air monologues from the film can be heard.
• The sound effect when Kowalski crashes into the bulldozers was later used in the video game Driver.
• Death Proof, the Quentin Tarantino contribution to the faux-exploitation "double feature" Grindhouse, features a chase involving a Dodge Challenger resembling the one seen in Vanishing Point (not being an R/T model and having an automatic transmission). Death Proof also references the movie by name repeatedly calling it - "one of the best American movies ever made". The car in the film also has the license plate OA 5599.
• In the documentary Celluloid Closet, actor Tom Hanks talks about how Vanishing Point was one of the first times he could recall seeing stereotypical gay characters in a film.

Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... For other uses, see Primal Scream (disambiguation). ... Vanishing Point is a 1997 (see 1997 in music) album by Primal Scream. ... Kowalski (feminine: Kowalska, plural Kowalscy) is the second most common surname in Poland (139,719). ... For the bands self-titled album, see Audioslave (album). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chris Cornell driving the 1970 Dodge Challenger in the music video. ... Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ... For other uses, see Use Your Illusion (disambiguation). ... Breakdown is the seventh track on the Guns N Roses album Use Your Illusion II. Axl Rose has stated that the vocal ending to the song is the only thing he was not satisfied with on the Use Your Illusion albums. ... Driver: You Are the Wheelman, better known as Driver, is a 1999 video game developed by Reflections Interactive, who had earlier hits with Destruction Derby on the early years of the PlayStation. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar winning screenwriter. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. ... The Celluloid Closet is the title of a 1995 documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. ...

Remake

A Vanishing Point remake was created for Fox television, first airing in 1997, and also featuring a 1970 Dodge Challenger. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as Kowalski, rewritten as a suspected militia sympathizer from Idaho, and Jason Priestly as "The Voice", a libertarian talk radio shock jock who replaces Super Soul. The two films are similar, but the remake has had its plot tweaked to include more traditional motivation and action and is not very well regarded by fans of the original film or otherwise^{[citation needed]}. Vanishing Point is a 1997 Fox television remake of the 1971 cult film of the same title. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. ... Lebanese Kataeb militia A Militia is an army composed of ordinary [1] citizens to provide defense, emergency or paramilitary service, or those engaged in such activity. ... Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area  Ranked 14th  - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²)  - Width 305 miles (491 km)  - Length 479 miles (771 km)  - % water 0. ... Jason Priestley (born August 28, 1969), actor, was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ... For other uses, see Talk Radio. ... A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. ...

Richard Kelly is currently writing a remake of the film for 20th Century Fox.^[2] Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001s Donnie Darko. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

References

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See also

• Vanishing Point (1997) - Television remake

Vanishing Point is a 1997 Fox television remake of the 1971 cult film of the same title. ...

External links

• Vanishing Point at the Internet Movie Database
• Vanishing Point - fan site. Articles, rare photos, trivia (site out. link to the Waybackmachine archived page).
• Review of 1997 TV remake, contrasted with original film.