It should be the best and safest car in the world - that is the dream of the inventive entrepreneur Preston Tucker. The vehicle designer begins to develop several prototypes of a revolutionary car in America in the early 1950s, but quickly encounters resistance from the competition. Major automakers are torpedoing Tucker's plans by any means possible... In Francis Ford Coppola's biography, the vehicles play the secret leading role. It is based on the life story of Preston Tucker, which has been researched for years. The film received three Oscar nominations, Martin Landau was awarded the Golden Globe for his role. In Germany, the production was rated "valuable". The Encyclopedia of International Film writes about the 23-million-dollar flick: "In the form of an enthusiastic, larger-than-life biography, the full-life portrait reflects Coppola's own dreams and struggles against the constraints of industry."