Vanishing Point: 50 Years later (Documentary)

Made it just in time for it to still officially be the 50th. Hope you enjoy my last vid for 2021.

Still good to remember leaving the cinema confused but elated all them years latter.

I FOUND THIS SPECIAL
“50 years Later” -THANK YOU!!!
AFTER COMING ACROSS THE 1997 VIGGO MORTENSON version ( that I don’t think I saw, but still liked. (Was the 1997 legend of the name-what helped him play the Legenary Aragon in Lord of the Rings Trillogy?
ITS HARD TO BELIEVE THE ORIGINAL WAS 50!! Years ago🤯!!
And I did not know that Barry Newman passed at 92.
This Legendary movie is like so many artist on Canvas!
Not till Many Years Later Are they accepted or recognized by the masses as to being a LEGEND.
THANK YOU U you Tube for posting both of these Vanishing Points!!👍

This movie from back then is the reason why I have a 2015 challenger shaker Rt now.

God..that triple Black 68 charger RT was bad ass..bout cried seeing it get rolled n totaled 😢

Could the narrator talk any faster?

The narrator jabbers in a monotone.... how did he get the job?

I cna't believe it's been that long ago since I saw the original movie.

This movie definitely inspired whoever made The Warriors. It is the street gang version of this movie

I saw this in 1977 on a double bill with Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry at a beautifully rundown single screen theatre featuring mildly wrinkled white bedsheets! Blew me away! Though I've never seen the uncut version, I proudly own a pan scan laserdisc. Great soundtrack!

This brilliant film featured music by Delany and Bonnie.
Perfect.

Greatist counture culture car movie.

Yes without a doubt it is the Greatest Car chase movie, I saw it when I was a kid in the early 70s and that was it, hooked for life on Cars specially Mopar and the movie Vanishing Point

Without doubt THE best car chase EVER......How ever the only thing that spoils this film for me (and once you see it your always see it) the motorcycle cops gun holster is obviously EMPTY as it is blowing around in the wind, but you can forgive that as it is one of the BEST movies Ever made.

This movie is the reason that I have a white Challenger R/T today.

It says in the movie that the car is hopped up to do over 160

At 14 (in 1982), my dad bought me a 70 Challenger 440 V-8 R/T. At 14 I was allowed to drive this beast and she was magical. It was supposed to have been put in my name at 18 when I could legally put my own insurance on it. One day I'd came home and found that dad had sold my car for a dune buggy he could take off roading. I cried for weeks. I could never forgive him for that. Twice more he had done that to me with other cars but always allowed my brothers to keep theirs. He is dead now and no. I've still not forgiven him.

Are we going to have that conversation about some poor owner in San Francisco who isn't ever going to get his customized Dodge Challenger delivered? 😅

Yeah that's right 👍

R.I.P BERRY NEWMANN !

Oh I don't know

The French Connection

No dirty Mary Crazy Larry

I remember watching this film when it wasn't a 'cult classic'.Loved it then, love it now, what happened to Barry after?

the original gone in 60 seconds is the GOAT

Bobby Doyle's The Girl Done Gone It Together is a fun song.

This movie is a lot more layered than people realize, and a lot of spiritual undertones. The woman who represents death tells Kowalski that she has been waiting for him, when in reality he has been looking for her. He is offered a chance to rest and sleep at the beginning of the film, but turns it down, to which his friend warns him that he is going to end up killing himself.
He's living with a lot of demons. He was in the military, and has a wound that he doesn't even want to talk about, a failed career as a racer, a career as a policeman that was cut short because he had witnessed too much corruption (assuming that the incident where he stops his partner from raping the girl was not the worst thing he saw, but just the last thing he could take seeing), and the girl who loved him dies, and he doesn't tell her that he loves her. Like the preacher who throws the snakes away because he says they no longer need them, Kowalski no longer needs his demons, and needs to be set free of them.
I think by the time he encounters the couple in the desert he has already made up his mind that he will not be around much longer. He's offered a supply of speed, to which he says he won't be able to use that much. He's offered earthly pleasures by a beautiful young girl, but is not interested.
Just before he end, we see a shot of the two bulldozers with an almost heavenly light shining between them.
It's also interesting that even he never gives his first name. He's partially already checked out. It's meaningless because no one needs to remember it any longer.
Some writers have derived meaning from the fact that it is a white car he's driving, giving him a ghost like presence as he drives through the landscape. Whether intentional or not, it does add another layer to the entire picture, as does the fact that it is often seen in a cloud, though the clouds are dust.

I GOT THE DVD VANISHING POINT WHAT A MOVIE GOOD ONE

This remains my favorite move of all time. First time seeing this movie with several friends at my house watching it, an ironic and unbelievable thing happen. A news break broke into the movie about a car chase on the outskitts of our town, they also had a helicopter involved and gave a screen shot of another friend being chased in his 1969 white 340 Dart. We could not believe it. That timing could have not been more perfect. Eric didn't crash into bull dozers, but did crash into a concrete drain embankment tearing up his car pretty badly.
Eric ended up serving 13 months in jail while we all pitched in to rebuild his badly damaged Dart. Later, another friend and I hitch hiked from Columbus Ohio to California. Along the way we ended up here and got a grand tour of the filming locations. The people in that town really thought that was a big thing. They had Vanishing Point memorbrilia in every store there. But way back then it wasn't in as bad of shape as it is today. Great video and thanks for your time and effort here!!!

Thanks for the video, classic film, I'm thinking the car was green from the production line , changed to white just for the film , smart move 👌

...... This was one of the 1st theater movies I saw & I still can't tell you what it was about.... Other than a spectacular head-on into 2 bulldozers.

The movie ultimately was the story about a man's journey in america. It's an american story

Newman was miscasted IMHO.

Great job" I was just thinking of this movie yesterday 😀 it has always been with me. So many parts of this movie make it great. I believe it inspired the mad max movie. Just the title vanishing point is evocative. i ride fast bikes and i keep my eyes on the vanishing point ready to brake when something appears, a true cult classic never to be surpassed.

Great movie Thanks!

Coincidentally enough, my initials too are MP, but I remember this brilliant film clearly viewing it at Grafton drive in theatre in roughly 71 or 72 with my parents (as we did on a regular basis regardless of classification). Film releases here in Australia were far more delayed to get here back then than they are today. I'm surprised when car chases are brought up in conversation, and I stay quiet for a while and then say Vanishing Point. Usually I get nothing but blank stares. Go Kowalski you legend! 😎👍

Hope will be a re Karen with new E.V. charger new modern version

You do this movie a disservice to label it a car chase movie. It's a movie with a car chase. Yes, one of the best car chases ever but there are tons of films that are simply car chases with a little bit of plot on the side. This one rises above those.

I don't know who this guy is. I think he's English. But he got it all wrong. The mustang came out in 1964 1/2, June or July? I don't remember. Plymouth introduced the Barracuda in April of 1964, so the Mustang being the first pony car is wrong. Need to do a little bit more research

Kowalski LIVES !!!!!!

The film was called Vanishing Point after a scene in the movie where Kowalski passes a car going the other direction on the highway. The frame freezes as the cars pass each other, and then progress one frame at a time. Kowalski's Challenger is going so fast that after a few frames pass the Challenger disappears off the screen as the other car has not moved at all. It wasn't a camera trick, it was real. It's one of my favorite movie scenes ever, but no one who's ever made one of these documentary videos has ever included it.

I think someone has their facts mixed up. Because during the movie, when he met the naked girl on the motorcycle and her brother, the police where able to track them down because the guy went to town looking for an oil pan for a 70 HEMI challenger . But this guy is saying it was a 440 car not a hemi.

Dang, i watched that movie in theater when it came out!

A friend of mine had a 73 383 mag Charger. What normally took us 90 min drive. We did it in 45 mins on a early Sunday morning hardly no traffic. And we was shocked when we got to the lake nobody was there yet because we didn't even tried. He just open it up on the straightaways in hilly WV. Yes we double checked the time of leaving my house when he pick me up. We was going water-skiing. True Story.

The Mustang was not the "all-time best-selling car in history." Not by a long shot. And the limey narrator is speaking too damn fast for no reason.

You cannot stop, the October wraith. Only he can choose to stop... Defiant, Loner . Rebel... There is no vanishing point.... Sssshhhh🤫. !! It's a secret, nobody and history, don't remember those, who plays by the rules.... LMFAO!😂😅😅

I live in AZ and travel to CO frequently to visit family/friends, so when I go through Moab I always take 128 east along the river and drive through Cisco Utah before getting on I-70 east. Always have to stop and take a photo of the collapsing building next to the road with the fuel pump concrete pad standing up. Someone spray painted "Kowalski Lives" on it.

Did you see the 1980 sequel? It was for the Gen X, It had a Dodge horizon and they stopped it with two Sears craftsman garden tractors with snow blades on them. I don’t remember who the star was , but he had a mullet!

the Mustang is not the best selling car of all time under any criteria