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Vanishing Point

1971 · directed by Richard C. Sarafian · 105 min
22,937 feet · Prominence
1,442nd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw72

Lifetime worldwide gross $72m, re-releases included; about $589m in 2026 money.

Rank478 of 11,051In 19713 of 40

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise62

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics62 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Existential road-movie cult, Tarantino touchstone.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.2 from 32kWikipedia10k views a monthAge55 years

Scored beside it · 1,431 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 72 praise 62 legacy 45averages 60, placing it at22,937 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Barry Newman▲ Dean Jagger▲ Victoria Medlin

In these careers — elevation for this film

Barry Newman19,070 ftCleavon Little18,755 ftDean Jagger17,911 ftVictoria Medlin17,778 ftCharlotte Rampling17,655 ftJohn Amos17,640 ftTed Neeley17,622 ft