Duel

1971
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Title: Duel

Original Title: Duel

Year: 1971

Info

  • Country: USA
  • Length: 90 Minutes (1 hour 30 min)
  • Budget: $450,000
  • Genre: Thriller Action
  • Studios: Universal Pictures
  • Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: October 20 1972
  • United States: November 13 1971

Plot

Initially made for television, its aesthetic brilliance and intriguing narrative pulse made this first and cheap work of a very young Steven Spielberg appear on the big screen. Converted today almost into a cult film, it is a fast-paced story that tells the road chase to which a driver is subjected to his car ... by a mysterious truck that can not lose sight of. Personally I prefer the jaws to the fenders, but this is an essential first lesson of a masterful director.

'The devil on wheels' ('Duel'), tells the story of David, a driver trying to overtake a tanker does not imagine that the driver will take it as a personal offense. From that moment, the diabolical truck driver will subject David to a mortal persecution ...

Director:

Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg

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Trivia

The right man

When Carey Loftin, playing the truck driver, asked Steven Spielberg what his motivation was for tormenting the car's driver, Spielberg told him, "You're a dirty, rotten, no-good son of a bitch." Loftin replied, "Kid, you hired the right man."

Inspiration

According to Richard Matheson, he was inspired to write the original short story "Duel" after an encounter with a tailgating truck driver on November 22, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Prefix

The phone number Dennis Weaver dials to call his wife at the gas station is not the standard "555" movie prefix but, at the time, a valid number.

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