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Released
1971 · FILM

Vanishing Point

A disillusioned ex‑cop turned courier races a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco, betting he can beat the clock in under fifteen hours while relentless lawmen and perilous encounters close in on his trail.

“It's the maximum trip... at maximum speed.”

Directed by
Richard C Sarafian
Written by
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Malcolm Hart
Runtime
99 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Kowalski works for a car delivery service and is tasked with transporting a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after picking up the vehicle, he makes a bet to deliver it in under 15 hours.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stefan ArnstenShot by John A Alonzo

Box Office

1971 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 56× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$72.3M

Budget$1.3M
Worldwide gross$72.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Fluchtpunkt San Franciscode
  • Grenzpunkt Nullde
  • Vanishing Pointen
  • Point limite zérofr
  • Punto zeroit

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