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!
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.
Cant beat the original. I remember the first time I watched this. It was with my father. Now this movie is a part of me. Sometimes movies are bigger then movies. This movie sparks the revolutionary freedom loving spirit in us all. One way or another kowalski lives in us all. And in a way we all face the same struggle. God help us.
Yes, it is a movie of great depth, it's sad they left the Charlotte Rampling scene out of the US release as it's pivotal to understanding the whole movie.
+Ben Elliott Named my Boxer Kowalski. And I was born in 73 2 years after but saw it in 79 and it really had a lasting impact on me. This is not a road trip movie. Its a thing that really makes you think.
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.
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...
Watching it makes you feel a certain type of freedom we enjoyed is forever gone, and won't be returning. Maybe it's why Kowalski drove into the "light" at the end of the movie.
NOBODY KNOWS Composed by Mike Settle; sung by Kim Carnes in the 1971 movie "Vanishing Point" 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. NOBODY KNOWS NOBODY SEES, TILL THE LIGHT OF LIFE STOPS BURNIN' TILL ANOTHER SOUL GOES FREE. WHO IS THE GIVER? AND WHO SHALL RECEIVE? WHO KNOWS THE ANSWERS? WHO SHALL BE FREE? WHAT IS THE QUESTION? NOW, NOW WHERE IS THE RIGHT? WHO'S GONNA TESTIFY FOR ME WHEN I DIE? YEAH NOBODY KNOWS. NOBODY SEES. TILL THE LIGHT OF LIFE STOPS BURNIN', TILL ANOTHER SOUL GOES FREE. (4x)
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!
My dad saw this movie as a child and decided that when he grows up he is going to buy a Dodge Challenger, and when he was in hes twenties that dream came to true and we have a dodge challenger to this day :)
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.
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!
I love this movie! And I want a 1970 white Dodge Challenger!!! I've wanted one ever since I saw this movie!!!!! The star of the movie??? As much as I like Barry Newman, the car was the star!!!!!!!!!!!
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
Thank you for sharing♥️ this is one of my top 3 favorite movies from my child hood. I've been searching for this movie for years on you tube . Loved seeing this movie again.
"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."
The best time of my life my brother took me to the drive in in NY I was 8 when I saw this in my big brothers 73 challenger 383 4sp and that was the only memory of my brother rip
Me and my Pops watched this movie everyday after school for 2 years straight. Probably hold the world record for most times watched. Can quote this line for line. Plus the right hand drive Challenger negative flip when Kowalski is driving through the desert has anyone noticed that. Or that they smash a bow tie at the end instead of one of those beautiful Dodges
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...
One if not the one and only best movie ever there is so much to the world but this movie is real to the world there for it makes.it worth watching over and over.
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!!!
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.
*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!
The Alamo Drafthouse Theatre here in Austin, TX showed Vanishing Point on the big screen about a year ago with a gourmet meal to coincide with certain parts of the movie. It was awesome to see it so clearly and on a massive screen. If you look through my videos you can see some footage I shot along the way to the movie, it was a blast.
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
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.
Best movie in the world, will never be another one like that. I have a vhs copy sealed in plastic I only watch the cd I have, it is not for sale or loan!
@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!
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 :-).
Thanks for this.I bought the cd soundtrack and the quality was like a bad tape copy.I'd love to hear a proper remastered 180grsm vinyl of this song,great song!
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.
(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.
Jesus made vanishing point there will never be another movie like this one. Thank yu Lord for letting me be around when it came out. I have my vhs copy sealed in plastic
@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.
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.
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!
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.
Cant beat the original. I remember the first time I watched this. It was with my father. Now this movie is a part of me. Sometimes movies are bigger then movies. This movie sparks the revolutionary freedom loving spirit in us all. One way or another kowalski lives in us all. And in a way we all face the same struggle. God help us.
Just saw Vanishing Point again on the late show, June 1, 2019. Only two stars?? This is an all time classic, deserves more.
Yes, it is a movie of great depth, it's sad they left the Charlotte Rampling scene out of the US release as it's pivotal to understanding the whole movie.
EXCELLANT MOVIE....one of the ALL time 10 GREAT films....love Barry Newman's character and Cleavon Little
I want this to play at my funeral.
This was my favorite movie when I was a kid and it still is
tony peterson it was a time when we were against the Man and Anti-Establishment.. We were Radicals..
I would be proud to have this played at my funeral.
Same
Only one Vanishing Point { 1971 ] Long live Barry Newman !!
+Ben Elliott Named my Boxer Kowalski. And I was born in 73 2 years after but saw it in 79 and it really had a lasting impact on me. This is not a road trip movie. Its a thing that really makes you think.
Amen
What a soul reaching song!
I loved the old America and was so proud of it .
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.
Best Roadmovie Soundtrack ever!
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...
Watching it makes you feel a certain type of freedom we enjoyed is forever gone, and won't be returning. Maybe it's why Kowalski drove into the "light" at the end of the movie.
NOBODY KNOWS
Composed by Mike Settle; sung by Kim Carnes
in the 1971 movie "Vanishing Point"
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.
NOBODY KNOWS
NOBODY SEES,
TILL THE LIGHT OF LIFE STOPS BURNIN'
TILL ANOTHER SOUL GOES FREE.
WHO IS THE GIVER?
AND WHO SHALL RECEIVE?
WHO KNOWS THE ANSWERS?
WHO SHALL BE FREE?
WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
NOW, NOW WHERE IS THE RIGHT?
WHO'S GONNA TESTIFY
FOR ME WHEN I DIE?
YEAH
NOBODY KNOWS.
NOBODY SEES.
TILL THE LIGHT OF LIFE STOPS BURNIN',
TILL ANOTHER SOUL GOES FREE. (4x)
Once upon a time ,I saw this movie on TV.
It was alike miracle!
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!
Can we just grab the world time clock and turn it back 50 years! Start over again....
+Pillowbiter84 Nope. We will die soon though.
Kim C is such a under recognized talent.
+Carl Schwamberger She may be under recognized today, but back in the day she sure wasn't.
Always wanted a Dodge Challenger! Had a Mustang, a Camero and a T-bird. All good cars, miss those days!
I don't blame you, I was even around then and I miss those days and Im still in love with the OLD America! I own a 1970 Challenger!
My dad saw this movie as a child and decided that when he grows up he is going to buy a Dodge Challenger, and when he was in hes twenties that dream came to true and we have a dodge challenger to this day :)
AWSOME top 3 cars ever made
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.
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!
yes will always be my favorite movie this is the best that there is and ever will be
I love this movie! And I want a 1970 white Dodge Challenger!!! I've wanted one ever since I saw this movie!!!!! The star of the movie??? As much as I like Barry Newman, the car was the star!!!!!!!!!!!
Coolest movie ever made.
+Glenda Peterson By far.
Remake? Barry Newman: " Total crap " as he threw up his hands". Read that in a interview along with some other VP facts.
Amen to that
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
got a DVD today on Amazon...great to see it again after so many years!
Thank you for sharing♥️ this is one of my top 3 favorite movies from my child hood. I've been searching for this movie for years on you tube . Loved seeing this movie again.
"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."
The best time of my life my brother took me to the drive in in NY I was 8 when I saw this in my big brothers 73 challenger 383 4sp and that was the only memory of my brother rip
Barry Newman died on May 11 2023 at the age of 92 Good job Kowalski that was a hell of a run in the book of Life!
Me and my Pops watched this movie everyday after school for 2 years straight. Probably hold the world record for most times watched. Can quote this line for line. Plus the right hand drive Challenger negative flip when Kowalski is driving through the desert has anyone noticed that. Or that they smash a bow tie at the end instead of one of those beautiful Dodges
Did you know about the UK released version has a 8 minute scene that wasn’t in the U.S. release?
I did not i will definitely see if i can find a copy.
@@joshyeager6339
Yea, the part with Charlotte Rampling, it's in the Blu-ray edition.
Greetings from Poland!!
What a great time in history. What a great song and what a great movie to remember the feel of it all.
Perfect tune for the ending of the movie.
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...
GREAT MOVIE.
One if not the one and only best movie ever there is so much to the world but this movie is real to the world there for it makes.it worth watching over and over.
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!!!
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.
*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!
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.
fantastic fucking movie
Excellent tune. So powerful.
the Music and the Films is the BEST of the BEST!!!!My Dream in Germany!!
Watched this film last week the first time. Still hearing the music :)
Greetings from Germany.
That's VP director Richard Sarafian spraying the Camaro with a garden hose at the end.
didn't know that, good catch ; )
"Ninguém sabe, ninguém vê, até a luz da vida parar de queimar, até que outra alma se liberte."
Awesome film
Beast film ever I saw it in 73
The Alamo Drafthouse Theatre here in Austin, TX showed Vanishing Point on the big screen about a year ago with a gourmet meal to coincide with certain parts of the movie. It was awesome to see it so clearly and on a massive screen. If you look through my videos you can see some footage I shot along the way to the movie, it was a blast.
@ickiepoo absolutely!! Kowalski is a fictional charater and i still consider him a god in world of gearheads lol...
-CHEERS
Liberty - Life aint life without it.
Do rest in peace, Clevon!!!
Great song, fantastic movie, great picture, thanks for the upload!
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!
one of the best movies EVER!!! the new version is:CRAP !!!! ol movies are the best!!!!!!!! Long LIVE the 70thies!!!!!!
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
You're right.
Yeah...I need to put this in my will. Incredible tune from an incredible woman from an incredible movie soundtrack...
I saw this movie twice during the 80s in public german TV.
You got it, bro. It's a real classic.
my favorite movie I have to copys , one in plastic
Truly THE BEST ROAD MOVIE of ALL TIME
This movie is 30 years older than me :)
i'll admittthis one makes me tear up as I watch the last American hero crash to his death :(
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.
2019 is anybody still out here🤔
2020
I'm here in 2020
Best movie in the world, will never be another one like that. I have a vhs copy sealed in plastic I only watch the cd I have, it is not for sale or loan!
the best movie, the best music.
what a voice and bluesy song love it
Great movie and soundtrack just watched it on sky
Kowalski is what an American hard core tough guy should be ,not like these millennial light in the loafers butt bangers they have today .LOL
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!
KIm Carnes released her big hit "Bette Davis Eyes" in 1981.
@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!
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 :-).
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.
my favourit!
Absolutely correct.
You can't step in the same river twice.
Nicely put sir. Very apt indeed. 8)
Thanks for this.I bought the cd soundtrack and the quality was like a bad tape copy.I'd love to hear a proper remastered 180grsm vinyl of this song,great song!
Waooo si muy buena película
A monument...
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.
her best song... no doubt
(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.
Jesus made vanishing point there will never be another movie like this one. Thank yu Lord for letting me be around when it came out. I have my vhs copy sealed in plastic
@JkurtN I had the same reaction to Vanishing Point and never forgot the movie or Kowalski.
The end of an American heroe RIP Mr Kowalski
this sounds like a song Paul Williams might have written,and an unsung movie from it's time.
@TheHardcase it was actually radio k.o.w to start with and as they found out about kowalski they renamed in dedication!
I think that if they faithfully remade the movie, set it in 1971, and used all the same soundtrack...then it would rock
AGREEE!!!!!!!!
amen and amen!
That is it, exactly!
@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.
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.
It will not even be close.,.any sequel
they could not have picked a better song for that ending
how we forgot the gospel blues going this no body knows