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Vanishing Point (1971) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The car crashed at the end is a 1967 Chevy Camaro, not a 1970 Dodge Challenger
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: There are 2 scenes in the early part of the movie where a person can be seen in the passenger seat and one with a guy in a yellow shirt in the back seat.
  
  
• Continuity: A few seconds while driving in the desert are reversed showing Kowalski driving on the right side.
  
  

• Continuity: At 21:49, after Super Soul receives the first radio report about Kowalski, the Challenger goes up a hill into shadow with a large mound of earth on the left side of the road, then the road curves right. A few seconds later, the car is on the road well before the shadow with the same mound of earth on the left. The car climbs the same hill twice in about 15 seconds.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The sounds of the 1970 Dodge Challenger in certain scenes are actually from the 1968 Mustang in Bullitt (1968).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During close-ups on the rattlesnake in the desert that threatened Kowalski, the prospector's snare casts multiple shadows from studio lighting.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The 19-inch racks in Super Souls'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.
  
  
• Continuity: When naked girl motorcycle rider is talking to Kowalski near passenger side of car, her arms are at her side and she is a step back from the car. In the next shot, she is leaning against the car with her arms on the roof.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As Kowalski approaches California, Super Souls warns him of a "welcoming committee in the Sunshine State". California's official nickname is "The Golden State". The Sunshine State is Florida.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the bulldozers pull up to their marks in the opening sequence, tread and blade scars on the pavement from previous takes are visible.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the construction area, Kowalski goes off the road to his left, losing the trim ring from the left front wheel. Later in the movie, the trim ring is back on.
  
  
• Continuity: After the first motorcycle cop crashes, Kowalski flashes back to a motorcycle race. Two riders are shown crashing, and then one whom is assumed to be Kowalski. The rider is wearing a white jacket with black sleeves and a full face helmet, but after he crashes, he is shown getting up wearing an open helmet with goggles and a dark greenish-blue jacket with stripes. Curiously, the numbers are all the same, 28.
  
  
• Continuity: Motorcycle chase by the Colorado River: Second motorcycle cop crashes through a wooden barrier while chasing Kowalski. The barrier has three yellow and black striped horizontal boards; the cop clearly breaks all three boards in the crash, but when the shot returns to the cop sitting in the dirt, the top board is intact.
  
  
• Continuity: When the bulldozers drop the blades, the blades overlap by about a foot, there is no gap between them. The next shot, a frontal camera shot, shows a gap between the blades, and there's a gap between them in every shot after that.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening sequence, when the white car vanishes on the road as it passes the other car, a matte line is clearly visible up the middle of the frame, behind the dark car.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Kowalski drops off the biker who helps him get through the roadblock you can clearly see that one headlight is shattered. However, in the next scene when he picks up the female hitchhiker at night, all four headlights are working perfectly.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At 150:56, when the prospector is wrangling the snake a green tripod leg and equipment shadows are visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the first motorcycle cops attempt to pull Kowalski over, the wind is flapping the cop's holster upward, showing it to be empty.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The blind character Super Soul wears a regular wrist watch.
  
  

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