During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Charlotte Rampling
- Hitch-Hiker
- (scenes deleted)
Robert Donner
- Deputy Collins
- (as Bob Donner)
- Director
- Writers
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Malcolm Hart
- Barry Hall(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8, and not a 426 Hemi V-8 (as is often believed). Eight white Challengers loaned from the Chrysler Corporation were used during the filming.
- GoofsThe 19-inch racks in Super Soul's radio station with large tape reels (in one scene seen fast moving) are not audio equipment. These tape drives were used in computer systems in the 1970s to store data on tape.
- Quotes
Super Soul: This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him.
- Crazy creditsThe Fox logo is shown without the fanfare making it one of the first times this has happened.
- Alternate versionsWhen first released in Brazil, the movie had some scenes cut, reducing the running time to 99 minutes.
- SoundtracksYou Got to Believe
Composed by Delaney Bramlett
Sung by Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
(Courtesy of Atlantic Records)
Featured review
Soul challenger
The best road movie ever made. To appreciate it you have got to try and see it from the culture of that era. It is totally anti establishment as was the mood of half of America. So the police are all idiots, the 'good ol boys' are either violent rednecks or passive disapproving onlookers. Kowalski is going to give those mid west conservatives something they won't forget, he's going to shake things up for a day or two. Kowalski is simply the symbol of the many disenfranchised at the time. The story starts at the end. We hear a boring stifling radio news item on the price of grain. We see dreary looking bystanders who need to be turned on. Then Super Soul takes over the airwaves with his wild DJ antics and hippy music trying to jolt these people out of their fixed ways. The old and the new are clashing. This sets the mood we know from then it is rebellious. Other aspects the stunts the music the characters have been well covered below so there is no need to say more on that. Some have said that there is no point to this story or Kowalski's motives and have interpreted the title meaning that. But all a vanishing point is an artist name for the phenomena of perspective where two parallel lines seemingly meet and in the long straight roads of the journey we see plenty of vanishing points.
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- pullgees
- Oct 14, 2003
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Fluchtpunkt San Franzisko
- Filming locations
- Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada, USA(KOW radio station)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,585,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,442,673
- Gross worldwide
- $12,443,192
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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