Vanishing Point is on TCM Saturday night

Vanishing Point is on TCM Saturday night, just saying

23:00 in California

I just set it to record. I notice Greased Lightnng is after that. The story of Wendell Scott - stock car racer played by Richard Pryor.

In reply to Datsun310Guy:

Greased lightning is one of my favorite movies.

In reply to Wally:

Good - I just recorded it too. I have an old Car & Driver that has a story about Wendell.

Cool, thanks for posting

Vanishing Point is one of those movies where you have to remember when it was made - it's still entertaining, but late 1960s and early 1970s movies tended to be kind of weird, with murky plot lines and a lot of random stuff tossed into the movie that doesn't seem to have much to do with the story. Kind of like Easy Rider or Two Lane Blacktop.

In reply to stuart in mn:

That's why I record it - I fast forward to the car scenes.

Thanks for posting that.

Ain't seen that in years.

We watched Greased Lightning last night. The wife rolled her eyes at car movie and Richard Pryor. Halfway through she admitted it was a pretty good movie but was surprised the had it on TV with all the Confederate flags and throwing out the n word like they were being paid for it.

In reply to Wally:

That was a good one too.

In reply to Wally:

I remember my Dad taking me to see that movie in the theater.

I DVRed Vanishing Point. So far, I've watched about the first 8 minutes (or two lines of dialogue). Going to the movies in the early 70's must've been an exercise in staying awake or having fun watching all the people nodding off. They don't make movies much like that anymore. I'll finish up watching it sometime this week.

Did he explain the naked chick on the motorcycle? That must have been weird.

In reply to T.J.:

We live in an instant gratification society now. In the 70's people actually had attention spans.

So which version was it?

In reply to bravenrace:

Well, when this particular movie came out I was a 1 year old, so I personally have a longer attention span today then I did back them....but it's close.

You need to be in the right headspace to watch that movie.