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Duel is a 1971 American action-thriller television film directed by Steven Spielberg. It centers on a traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) driving his car through rural California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a semi-truck
Nov 13, 1971 · Duel: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell. A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- (79K)
- Action, Thriller
- Steven Spielberg
- 1971-11-13
Steven Spielberg directs Duel, a thriller about a motorist terrorized by an evil truck starring Dennis Weaver as the traveling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
- 90 min
- THE MOVIE WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE INCIDENT. Author and screenwriter Richard Matheson based his original novella, which first appeared in the April 1971 issue of Playboy, on an actual road rage incident.
- IT WAS STEVEN SPIELBERG’S SECRETARY WHO DISCOVERED RICHARD MATHESON'S STORY. Spielberg got his start directing for TV at the age of 21, helming episodes of such shows as Night Gallery and Marcus Welby, M.D.
- DENNIS WEAVER’S WORK WITH ORSON WELLES GOT HIM THE LEAD IN DUEL. For the lowly protagonist, David Mann, Spielberg hand-picked character actor Dennis Weaver because he loved his performance as the jittery and feeble hotel night manager in Orson Welles’s 1958 film Touch of Evil.
- THERE WAS A CASTING CALL FOR THE TRUCK. Matheson's script stated that the villainous, unnamed truck driver would never be seen besides the insert shots of his arms and boots.
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David Mann (Dennis Weaver), a mild mannered electronics salesman, is driving cross-country on a two-lane highway when he encounters an old oil tanker driven by an unseen driver who seems to...
- (45)
- Mystery & Thriller
- PG,
The story of Duel was brilliantly simple and lent itself to a highly visual treatment: On a winding California highway, businessman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is driving at a safe speed and passes a large gas tanker truck.
