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Does this movie involve a white Dodge Challenger R/T?     I think I have it, but the odds are vanishingly small.   But the point is,  I THINK I know where it came from.  It was on the news.

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by TalismanRich

Stop...we have a winner!

Actually we have two winners:

Mars_shall sent me a PM, and Rich also posted here in the thread. So I owe you each a beer, next time we meet up.

Although the clues were getting pretty damned obvious!

Another obscure one I was ready to post:

 

 Specifically the window pic was The Green Frog Grocery store at the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada, where parts of "Vanishing Point" were filmed. And Super Soul had his radio station "KOW"

 

Not sure if it really was a Green Frog grocer, or just a movie prop setup. But the building is still there, in Goldfield.

Most of the other locations have fallen into ruin

 

It's rumoured to be haunted by ghosts

Edited September 27, 2023 by bolero

If you can find the European version, it has extra footage that was cut from the US version of the film.

It was actually the radio station that triggered it for me.   I really don't remember the pics of the Green Frog Grocery, or Ray's beer joint.   But I remember SuperSoul talking to Kowalski over the radio, trying to get him home.   Also,  Delaney and Bonnie were doing gospel music out in the desert with the snake handler.  

 

As for the beer... make mine A&W!  ?

What movie???

Vanishing Point - 1971

A weird kind of movie, where the "hero" is supposed to deliver a Dodge Challenger to California.   Of course, he's doing it at Cannonball Run speeds, so the cops are chasing him across the desert.   

The final scene has them pulling a pair of bulldozers into the road to stop him, which is the last pic that Bolero posted.

There is actually a copy of the movie in the Internet Archive.  It says it's the UK version.

Vanishing Point - Internet Archive.

 

I watch that film a couple times a year. Existential B movie genius. And great shots.

"The last American hero, the electric centaur, the demi-god, the super driver of the golden west.....the last beautiful free soul on this planet."

 

Delaney & Bonnie were supposed to do the soundtrack, but ended up in the movie as a bunch of preachers instead. Kim Carnes first vocal recording is her singing over the end credits.

 

The uncut version has a guest appearance by Charlotte Rampling

 

 

It's funny too: the reverend of the faith healers reminds me of Robert Fripp

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Are you suggesting this film was recorded in the court of the crimson king?

Kowalski needs an Epitaph ?

To a 21st century schizoid man?

 

I recognized the scene with the blind DJ. I was all like, "Hell yeah, I got this!" . Then clicked over to page 2 and it was all done and dusted.

I watched this movie when I was a real young kid, about 6 or 7. I didnt really get all the intricacies of it at the time but the general concept and atmosphere of the film struck me and stuck with me, and so has the movie.

I recently smashed into two bulldozers and escaped into the light on the other side. I wouldve done it sooner if I knew that was all it took.

 

Ha, yeah I remember seeing bits & pieces on late night movie channel when I was a kid. It always fascinated me: the scenery, the desert, the car, the enigma of the ending.

 

 Track down the uncut version it does fill some things in. And helps explain the end a bit more than the censored version. I guess there were religious concerns about a visitation by Death incarnate.

4 hours ago, bolero said:

Ha, yeah I remember seeing bits & pieces on late night movie channel when I was a kid. It always fascinated me: the scenery, the desert, the car, the enigma of the ending.

 

 Track down the uncut version it does fill some things in. And helps explain the end a bit more than the censored version. I guess there were religious concerns about a visitation by Death incarnate.

See my post earlier.   It's available from the Wayback Machine!

Yes, that is the uncut version, thanks for the link!

Was Vanishing Point the template for Thelma and Louise ?

2 hours ago, JeffB said:

Was Vanishing Point the template for Thelma and Louise ?

I wondered the same.