Vanishing point (1971) soundtrack,Kim Carnes-Nobody knows

[kevinkevinkevinize]

Correction: The fat guy with the GARDEN hose and the hat is the director. Low budget indeed.

[TheHardcase]

The greatest alienated, anti-hero cult classic ever made!

[phambo101]

I first saw this flick at a refugee camp in Guam back in the summer of 1975 after my family and I fled Vietnam. Everytime I hear this song at the movie climax after the crash, I would for some reason tear because of the fond memories...

[TheDeJureTour]

This is the song that plays at the very end of the film.

BONUS:

The fat guy with the firehose and the hat is the director of the movie!

[smurfsgot1]

i jus watched this movie,5mins ago

[WillyVictor]

First NEW car I ever bought.......340 Challenger, what a dummy I was for ever selling it. Few months later off to SE Asia, just wasn't as important anymore, motorcycles took it's place. Big mistake.

[TheTractorguy140]

i thank my dad for letting me grow up on movies like this im only 17 an i only watch movies from the 50s to the 90s only the bests an great ones none of this new shit!!!

[TheDeJureTour]

@TheTractorguy140 I am 30 years old, but I am a big classic cinema fan. (have been all my life)

90% of the movies I watch are from the 40's - early 80's.

I like the fact that the woman back then knew how to act, AND had dangerous curves!

[sav0y62]

Has anyone ever noticed that when they try to do a re-make of a classic---- it crashes and burns almost immediately!!

[Ryoku75]

@sav0y62 Yep, filmmakers tend to take gold and turn it into China-grade plastic. Once great films are turned into mushy, updated, saturated Wal-Mart products.

[TheHardcase]

"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honor of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him."

[DjPj30]

@TheHardcase it was actually radio k.o.w to start with and as they found out about kowalski they renamed in dedication!

[ricardo340]

You heard wrong!! Those are Mopar big blocks, period. Kowalski lives.

[Beholder552]

Im a dodge guy

[hotrodtrucker88]

There is and will never be another movie like this one. I have my copy sealed in Plastic forever. This undoubtedly came from Jesus himself. There is nothing abou the movie , the , songs, cars, that are not as perfect as perfect can be on this earth.

[cuda255]

Can not listen to this without a tear. The movie was great, as well as the soundtrack. Think also is perhaps Kim Carnes greatest song.

[solomonkain]

Great song, fantastic movie, great picture, thanks for the upload!

[Sprchrged04]

I'm a Ford guy myself, but this movie has the best music, scenes, actors, and one hell of a car if i may say so

[Ryoku75]

@Sprchrged04 From what I heard they dubbed Ford engine sfx over the Challenger.

[SuperTorinogt]

@Ryoku75 They did dub some of the mustang sound fx from Bullitt. They did the same thing with the original Dukes of Hazzard tv series. Also the first season of Starsky and Hutch they used the sound fx of the Charger from Bullitt for Starskys Torino. All of these movies/tv shows where owned by WB.

[7779107]

Look for the light coming out from between the two bulldozer blades at the very end, that is what he was aiming at and is why he was smiling when he hit. As Supersoul said, he was the last free man in America and speed was his freedom. He could not find his freedom except in death and the light symbolized this knowledge (he saw the light). He never fit into society, lost the cop job because he was too honest, then his girlfriend, the last possible connection to a stable life, drowned.

[googiy6]

@7779107 u gotta admit: coke is to be legalized!

[Eclipse1988]

Fuck me.... I was born in the wrong era.... LOL

[samalayork]

@Eclipse1988

i agree your comment to myself too man...i would give up all of these modern tech shit  now xD

[StojanSR]

@Eclipse1988 Yeah bro. Me too.

[usgaul12]

I don't know whether this has to do something with rage against the system, I just think in the end he found the best way to get rid of his misery and empty, sad existence. That's why in the end he felt happiness again as he had lost everything worthy by then. Got no answers, no reasons to go forward.

"Yet somehow, I lost my place in the book of life". Yeah, loneliness can be such a burden... one of my favorite films ever

[diurdi]

Liberty - Life aint life without it.

[southdakotaslim]

NOBODY KNOWS Composed by Mike Settle MY EYES WERE OPEN- I WAS READING EVERY LINE- YET SOMEHOW, I LOST MY PLACE, IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. WAS I LOOKIN' AFTER JESUS? WAS HE LOOKIN' AFTER ME? BEFORE I FOUND THE ANSWER LORD WE PARTED COMPANY. NOBODY KNOWS (no no no no no no), NOBODY SEES, TILL THE LIGHT OF LIFE COMES BURNIN' TILL ANOTHER SOUL GOES FREE. Great song to a great movie.

[Thndrsnw]

Classic. Fantastic soundtrack!!! I saw this when it came out.

THIS is how I'm goin' out!!!!! Brilliant.

[velozo155]

bad ass 1970 Dodge Challenger!

[huddylion]

Great movie and soundtrack just watched it on sky

[Dooby1986]

I want this to play at my funeral.

[trailertrash61]

About 10 times a year I drive by the building that was used for the radio station.39 years later it still looks the same.

[robicool]

@trailertrash61 i wish i could join you!

[14waylon]

i would get a ticket, for just sittin in it.440 with 3 deuces.it,s hard to ticket someone ,when you can,t catch,em.great movie.mopar car.nuff said!!!

[SaddleCat1]

In 1993, my girlfriend saw a 1970 Dodge Challenger in a used car lot and I bought it. It was Orange. I had a $1200 white (can't remember the "white" name-as all colors are names), but it was absolutley BEAUTIFUL. It had a 360 Mopar (only a Slap-stick Auto tranny), but it was HOT. It had a Fury (3.32? can't quite remember) rear end that threw the speedo off LOW about 16 MPH @ 70 (going 'bout 86- I learned this from a NCHP Trooper). I would have driven that thing to the edge of the Earth...

[itsonlymetoo]

I had a 73' Chally with the 383....wished Kim was riding shotgun singing this tune!

[SaddleCat1]

@itsonlymetoo Did ya ever get tired of people askin' 'bout your 'Charger'? I don't think I ever had anybody gettin' the 'Challenger' part right, LOL

Yep, Kim did a good job, didn't she? She also wrote "Sing out for Jesus", done by Big Mama Thornton on the soundtrack...

I love those old Challengers (the new ones don't look too bad, but it ain't the same...

[67DieHardPatriot454]

I agree Pap. He showed a Man can be free if he wants to. Love this movie.

[drsangle]

You can't imagine, we were already in a time of all out and this movie came out.

Never got a ticket. They never got close enough. No, I'm not kidding. It was great!

Thanks for putting all the songs on. It is the only movie ever like this and the music

is all pure classic. The Challenger with the sword shift handle and the attitude.

Please note the latest Dodge Challenger commercial. All we have to do is say no more and this is what this country does and stands for.

Thanks again!

[SaddleCat1]

@drsangle Pure Genious. Richard Sarafian directing. Never be another film/ soundtract to come close...

[sugarfoot59]

You got it, bro. It's a real classic.

[idak12]

if u wana be free man , just stop working 5 days a week and work 2 or 3 days a week and have at least 8 weeks off a year, don't buy things you don't need, buy an old car and let it live people and pick a road and just run away for a few days , thats what I do . Hi I'm wally from Australia and we got some great roads to escape and be free.

[JkurtN]

this may be the best song in the world. i saw this movie as a 22 year old college student and cried tears of sadness and joy at the same time. fuck the system!

[ickiepoo]

@JkurtN I had the same reaction to Vanishing Point and never forgot the movie or Kowalski. 

[Eclipse1988]

@ickiepoo absolutely!! Kowalski is a fictional charater and i still consider him a god in world of gearheads lol...

-CHEERS

[bunkieb00]

this is one of the truest, most soulful songs that i have EVER heard...it just cannot be duplicated..

[trip189n]

One of the best car movies,to bad they cant make movies like this anymore...now all we get is crap like fast and furious.

[Ryoku75]

@trip189n Meh, when I saw the first FF I was a kid and was bored, but I could watch old car films and be amused, now we have posuers in Civics thinking that a fart can, spoiler, and a black hood make their average cars cool.

[Eclipse1988]

@Ryoku75 I know, I know, my first car was a 1996 mitsubishi eclipse but I loved it. Just by chance,I found out that car was made with chrysler parts so I found a loop hole :-p (I was 16 at the time and had a lot to learn, so yes i didn't know it was built with chrysler stuff)

I hate these civic totin' mexicans, slants, and all these dumbasses... I love introducing them to my Hemi :-D

[Ryoku75]

@Eclipse1988 That explains why they made the Eagle Talon (a re badged eclipse). The 80's Civics are probably good track racers if modified well but being FWD I wouldn't reccomend stop light races, the 90's Civics look a little too big and the new Pruis looking Civics don't look sporty at all, but I have seen one with an aftermarket rear spoiler.

[bunkieb00]

@Ryoku75 lmao dude yer comment is hilarious...and SO TRUE!! Sad commentary about the state of things now, huh???

[Ryoku75]

@bunkieb00 Thanks, but what I think is real sad is the only new muscles cars that are made here are the Mustang and the Vette, the rest are Canadian which shows you how much they really care for us. Atleast ricers are somewhat the hot rod era repeating itself with cheap clunkers being souped up but I'll just face it, V8s sound a heck alot better then mower engines with bean cans at the end.

[bunkieb00]

@Ryoku75 yer damned right...epa standards, oil shortages and safety reg's all killed the kickass, balls-to-the-wall, muscle cars

[Ryoku75]

@bunkieb00 That and lousy designers. Just open the trunk of a new Camaro and tell me how I'm supposed to get anything in there.

[grumpypant]

Oh, rest in peace, Cleavont Little!!! You were great!!!

[grumpypant]

The DVD movie cover of this flick quotes: "THRILLS, SPILLS AND A HANDFUL OF PILLS!" Being so stoned to his membrane like Kolwaski, he brakes for no one...stop signs, naked motorcycle chick, Super Soul, BULL DOZERS...the bet for the beanies is on, brother!!!

This is the ultimate post-hippie classic cult----THEN STARS FROM ME!!!

[fckimcarnes]

JANUARY 16, 2010 • Saturday • IN THE ROUND WITH KIM CARNES, MATRACA BERG & PETER COOPER, WITH BILLY PANDA, TIM LAUER AND DAVE ELLINGSON • A BENEFIT FOR ALIVE HOSPICE • Bluebird Café • 4104 Hillsboro Road • Nashville, TN, USA • Phone: 615-383-1461 • Artists: Kim Carnes, Matraca Berg, Peter Cooper, Billy Panda, Tim Lauer and Dave Ellingson. • Hours: 09:30 p.m. • $15.00 • All Proceeds Benefit Alive Hospice.

[shirokuro324]

Nobody knows

[vivahb1970]

this film highlights that bullies just not wanted!

[GetStuffed88]

Only Kowalski and the Gumball Rally racers understand. The rest are lost.

[bovensiepen]

AGREEE!!!!!!!!

[housegeek]

@GetStuffed88 10000000000000% TRUE

[69swordfish]

cool movie cool soundtrack!

[TheOldbiker1947]

Good movie. Went to see it the second time at a drive-in in 1974 on my honeymoon.(Yes, we watched the movie). I become a fan of Kim Carnes in 1971 when i fist saw this movie.She is a great talentand this is a great song.

[tomloft2000]

this sounds like a song Paul Williams might have written,and an unsung movie from it's time.

[Dooby1986]

I think that if they faithfully remade the movie, set it in 1971, and used all the same soundtrack...then it would rock

[bunkieb00]

ya know..if they didi the thing with kowalski having a drug-induced dream about the dozers and making a new life with the dark-haired girl..and maybe rehashing the trip to a friend on his deathbed thirty-five years later?? how would that be?

[rf396]

Truly THE BEST ROAD MOVIE of ALL TIME

[how0will0this0end]

What a great time in history. What a great song and what a great movie to remember the feel of it all.

[MarquisRex]

The ending of this film tears me up. Kowalski really does represent the true spirit of freedom agianst the opressive and hippocritical regime. I bought a 1970 Challenger because of how much this film touched me. It was not heavy handed and it didn't need unsubtle reasoning like the remake. Kowalski is dead-long live KOWALSKI!

[papuschel]

In honor of the last american hero, for whom speed means the freedom of the soul.

This is more than just another movie, its the most impressing rage against the system ever made.

I havent seen anything better in 36 yrs.

[ClaudePrieur]

@papuschel Me too...

[Eclipse1988]

@papuschel -CHEERS!!!! 

[Fransais]

@papuschel i just watched it couldnt say it any better

[jaggermorrison2010]

@papuschel  best explanation i've heard for the movie

[shadowwolf41]

@papuschel Agreed. And it's really sad to see the differences between this and the new version with Vigo Mortenson. They completely took apart Kowalski's image and replaced it with one that was much more palpatable for a girl's night in melodrama without any element of critical social commentary.

[bunkieb00]

@shadowwolf41 amen brother..but, as i've said before, this movie was made in another era..it was very metaphoric of its times..that's why in any case any remake would fail..

[Eclipse1988]

@shadowwolf41 Agreed, there's two completely different angles between the films. But kowalski himself had the same determination to not be stopped, and at least they didn't flake out with the damn bulldozers at the end. I mean... They could have added the kick in the balls and made it "happy" LOL.

[maskedgiant]

@shadowwolf41 i agree, and the same was done with gone in 60 seconds

[spahjrp]

@papuschel I think you actually "got it"! Now, Cannonball Run would have to be number 2 for an entirely different reason.

[ozphil]

what ever happened to Barry Neuman? He did Vanishing Point, the short lived TV series Petrocelli then nothing. I have a 1970 Challenger I found sitting in weeds almost buried in a junkyard, when finished I have this notion to find Mr Sarafian and have him autograph the dash, if you see the dvd with his commentary you will know he likes the Challenger.

[bunkieb00]

oh yeah--i forgot to add...Kim Carnes never sounded better!!

[trailertrash61]

Good Movie,I go through Goldfield,Nevada where most of this was filmed about 10 times a year.The town looks pretty much the same.The building where Super Souls radio station was is still standing.Probably fewer p[eople around now.Hard to belive its 38 years ago.

[garbage106]

its a brilliant film im a true fan, when you drive through that area are you tempted to put your foot down a bit i would be hehe

[GetStuffed88]

Nobody knows, nobody sees. Yeah... See you beyond the Vanishing Point.

[canktm25]

i remember seeing vanishing point and dirty mary, cazy larry double feature in 74'

both good flicks. vanishing point number 1 car flick thou..

[bovensiepen]

one of the best movies EVER!!! the new version is:CRAP !!!! ol movies are the best!!!!!!!! Long LIVE the 70thies!!!!!!

[GetStuffed88]

I hear you.

[Knopson]

Yeah, K.O.W.alski ;D

[lettie113]

This song and movie are so great. At the end he made the choice to continue to be free. Movies now don't have the same magic, or does the music. The 70's had great movies and music.

[lukaszarsenal]

Hi guys!

Can anyone show me the link where I can find lyrics of this song. I personally didnt find it. Thanks in advance:)

[sdingeswho]

Hi, lukaszarsenal! I'll have to do this in two pieces, I think:

"My eyes were open, I was readin' every line, But somehow I lost my place in the Book of Life.  Was I lookin' after Jesus? Was He lookin' after me? Before I found the answer, Lord, we parted company . . . Nobody knows, nobody sees, ''Til the light of Life stops burning, 'Til another Soul goes free . . .

(continued, next post)

[sdingeswho]

(Continuing, 2nd verse)

Who is the giver? And who shall receive? Who knows the answer? Who shall be free? What is the question? Now, where is the rhyme?  Who's going to testify For me, when I die? Nobody knows, nobody sees, ''Til the light of Life stops burning, 'Til another Soul goes free . . ." ----- Mike Settle

Can't remember where I found it --- may've transcribed it myself for a discussion with a friend.

[lukaszarsenal]

Thank you very much for your time! I'm for ever in your debt!:)

Cheers to you from Poland

[sdingeswho]

My pleasure, lukas --- don't mention it! :-) As you can tell, I'm a huge fan of the movie and its soundtrack, and this song in particular. I had mentioned how great it all was to a couple of friends, and "just happened" to have the lyrics "lying around" in an e-mail to one of them :-). All I had to do was copy-and-paste, so it was no trouble at all. Greetings from Houston, Texas, USA!

[ickiepoo]

Hi lukaszarsenal. The sound track is available on Amazon; I got it a year or so ago. One of my favorite moviees and most folks never heard of it!

[exhiledtonowhere]

I remembered watching this movie when I was really young on TV and not getting then was I was about 20 I got it again and it is one of my all time movies. I had to finally buy and watch it multiple times before I did not want to cry over Kowalski's death

[MarquisRex]

i'll admittthis one makes me tear up as I watch the last American hero crash to his death :(

[sdingeswho]

*Love* this whole soundtrack-clip playlist, Vieshus, but I've gotta say that *this* is the one that "makes" the whole movie. I'm a normal, straight guy, but even I tear-up sometimes at the final scene of VP, when Kowalski goes to his reward and "Nobody Knows" comes on!

[bunkieb00]

absolutely..but ya know...that's the way a guy like that should go...FREE!! i mean really, this dude went against the grain to keep that free spirit, and for the most part, do right, so, reallly, doesn't the ending fit, despite being depressing?

[sdingeswho]

That's very true, bunkieb00, and that's exactly the way I read the scene --- Kowalski realized that there really "wasn't anything here for him anymore" on this plane of existence, and therefore made the choice to go to where he could remain FREE! Now, Barry Newman just says that Kowalski thought he could actually make it through the roadblock, somehow, but I'm not buying it. Director Sarafian says pretty-much the same thing I did, i.e. that the fatal crash represents a "rebirth" for K :-).

[bunkieb00]

thanx 4 the great reply!! rock on...don't u agree..that this is a film that due to its capturing of the era in which it was made just CAN'T be remade?

[sdingeswho]

Agree 100%, bunkieb . . . we all know what happened when they tried in the late 90s (the only thing that was correct *spirit*-wise in the re-make was to link-up K with underground militias). VP cannot be remade, nor can Easy Rider, and pretty-much anything from the "golden era" of the late 60s / early 70s.

[bunkieb00]

oh yeah s., one last thing....aren't those films just an absolute metaphor--peter fonda's and dennis hopper's chracters getting blown off their bikes and kowalski running into the blades--of the late 60's/early 70's? good heavens! wasn't everyone trying to make sense of senseless times?? thanks again :)

[dunghead1]

Absolutely correct.

You can't step in the same river twice.

[YuriLychacz]

her best song... no doubt

[gmcorrea]

In 1971, Kim Carnes made her debut recording with her husband (as Kim & Dave) singing the title song to the movie, "Vanishing Point": "Nobody Knows", (written by Mike Settle). Her cut as a writer, written for the same movie, was sung by maven Big Mama Thorthon: "Sing Out For Jesus".