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It is notable for featuring a 40-minute car chase scene, the longest in film history, during which a total of 93 cars were destroyed. [ 2 ] Gone in 60 Seconds has become a cult film in the years since its release, and a loose remake with new characters and a different plot was released in 2000, starring Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie .
Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. [3] It focuses on a disaffected ex-policeman and race car driver delivering a muscle car cross-country to California while high on speed ("uppers" in the story), being chased by police, and meeting various characters along the way.
That was modified to look like a 1970 model. It had PLYMOUTH spelled out across the hood (though the brand name was covered with aluminum foil for the movie), as well as a trunk lid treatment characteristic of the 1970 model. This older modified 1969 car was a stunt car that was used to go down the cliff in the final scene of the film.
The strange car-chase movie 'Vanishing Point' has had an equally strange afterlife, as detailed in this new book about the film and its star, a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440.
There have been many unbelievable car chase sequences in the history of movies, and we have ranked all of the best.
The film was known for an extended car chase with an Opel Commodore GS/E I6 involving the Bronson character's attempt to get a doctor to a wounded drug dealer in exchange for his wife. [ 1 ] Actress Liv Ullmann complained in an interview that Charles Bronson was rude to her and her daughter during the filming.
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The film is often cited as featuring one of the greatest car chase sequences in movie history. [25] The chase involves Popeye commandeering a civilian's car (a 1971 Pontiac LeMans) and frantically chasing an elevated train on which a hitman is trying to escape.