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Duel (1971) | User Rating
(71 votes) | Critic Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 17, 2004
Budget $450,000
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country USA
Studio Universal TV
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Other Titles
• Duell (1973)
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Genre: Action, Thriller, On The Road, Suspense, Black Comedy, Marriage, Psychos, Cult Classic
Tagline: Fear is the driving force.
Plot: On a deserted stretch of California highway, businessman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) settles into his red Valiant for the long drive to an urgent meeting. Ahead of him on the road is a slow-moving diesel truck, which David innocently decides to pass. So begins the long duel between David and the Goliath-like rig in this nerve-wracking TV movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Menacing David at every twist and turn of the highway, the truck tries to push the Valiant onto a train track, run David down in a phone booth, engage him in a high-speed chase, and tailgate him into oblivion. Hoping to lose the rig, David stops at a roadside café only to realize that the driver of the truck is also in the restaurant. The driver is never seen, except one shot of his beefy arm waving the Valiant ahead into oncoming traffic. Instead, Spielberg uses the monstrous truck itself, much like the way he used the shark in JAWS, to harass and taunt. After its broadcast on television, DUEL was released theatrically with extra footage
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 Think Jaws on the road and it'll give you some idea of what you're getting into with this film. It's a simple concept done to perfection and if you can find it on VHS for the cheap price it's going at, you can't go wrong with the purchase. You'll never look at the road the same way again.--Sonny Fernandez (Diabolical-Dominion.com)
This film was a tour-de-force of simplicity, one that capitalized on its images, technical prowess and ambiguity to put us, the whiplashed audience member, smack in the middle of the action. Granted, I wasn’t too fond of the “bah” internal monologues, but that didn’t come close to tarnishing what was a tension-laced and tighter than a virgin’s hole click, click boom sit-down. Hit this road Jack because they don’t make them like this no more!  --'The Arrow' (Arrow)
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The Stone Killer, With a Song in My Heart, Two for the Seesaw | | Gene Dynarski
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Then Came Bronson, Movers and Shakers | | | |
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