Movie 1971

Interestingly it holds up pretty well for the period of the piece. Watched the UK version, which seems to be better.

Makes me want to go out in the desert and look for a Honda.

Remember (the US version) movie well.
It ended the only way it could end.........

PC

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
Movie 1971

Interestingly it holds up pretty well for the period of the piece. Watched the UK version, which seems to be better.

Makes me want to go out in the desert and look for a Honda.

You mean a honda riden by a naked hippy chick? Yeah, me too.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
Watched the UK version, which seems to be better.

The UK version just has one added scene of Charlotte Rampling as the mysterious hitchhiker. It's cool - I agree the UK version is better because of it.

Vanishing Point is my favorite '70s movie. My dad took me when I was a kid to see a double feature of that playing with Death Race 2000. You know, there was nudity in both of those films, but I was so young, it didn't register.

I mentioned before in a post earlier this year that I drove through Cisco UT in 2011 where the beginning/ending of the film was filmed. The Shell station building where the bulldozers parked is still standing there after all these decades... ...barely.

Remember that movie well... I was 14 at that age and at a turning point.

That's really cool, LCS.

The UK release is much better; the scenes of Kowalski picking up, talking with Ms. Rampling and getting stoned, then waking up the morning after (to find her gone) and taking a leak whilst the CHP roared by looking for him filled in a lot of missing story line.


Have wanted an Alpine White Dodge Challenger R/T ever since...

Saw it went it first was released. My brother, friends, and I all had Mopar Muscle. The movie struck a chord. A couple years ago I found the DVD on sale and bought it. The wife and a couple of friends watched it. It didn’t have the same impact. We all wondered why it was so cool back in high school. Same with Easy Rider.

I enjoyed the Audioslave music video homage:





Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXIK1xCRpY


I miss Chris Cornell

This takes me back!

TCM just played it last week. It was on early am. I came a crossed it by accident as I couldn’t sleep. It was as good as I remember it long ago. If you have the TCM app, you can probably go back and watch it. Worth a try.

I saw it on TCM too. And the Challengers were essentially stock.

The UK scene not in the US version




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdrXJUGNzo

Not around for the original release, but I definitely enjoyed it as a kid. Then I'll watch pretty much anything with a car chase.

By the way, as a huge fan of '70s carsploitation films, I did really like Quentin Tarantino's homage to Vanishing Point - Death Proof, first released in theaters as part of the Grindhouse double feature with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. I was amused that Zoë Bell's "character" would be so obsessed with Vanishing Point that she would travel all the way from New Zealand to America just to ride in, er, on, the white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T from the film.

Charlotte Rampling was very hot.

But, barring accident, we all get old, ugly and...get off my lawn!

Went to see the film in 1970. After the film let out, we all walked out the the parking lot. There were a lot of muscle cars back then, Road Runners, Chargers, Mach 1 Mustangs, Camaros, etc. I remember everyone getting in their cars, revving the engines, and then, going "Nah, not worth dying for" and we all drove off.

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Originally posted by Birdvol:
Charlotte Rampling was very hot.

But, barring accident, we all get old, ugly and...get off my lawn!

IIRC, for a while in the late '60s/early '70s Charlotte was considered the sexiest woman alive. I had to look for the source(s) though.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Saw it went it first was released. My brother, friends, and I all had Mopar Muscle. The movie struck a chord. A couple years ago I found the DVD on sale and bought it. The wife and a couple of friends watched it. It didn’t have the same impact. We all wondered why it was so cool back in high school. Same with Easy Rider.

This, at the time 1971 it was a very cool movie....Watched it again in the mid 90's and wondered why? Why did I ever think it was a good movie. Maybe it was the smoke in my eyes and the anti-establishment times. Rebelling against authority was definitely in the air. And I think Easyrider was all about that same refrain.

I remember seeing it at the drive-in when I was little. The ending was a shock, but it didn’t bother me nearly as much as the ending of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry which I saw a year or two later. I really thought they were going to get away with it.