

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 ...
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Trivia
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.
The killer
Steven Spielberg said that the multiple license plates on the front bumper of the truck suggested that the truck driver is a serial killer which "ran down other drivers in other states".
His Godzila
Steven Spielberg stated that he approached this movie in the manner of a Toho monster movie, replacing Godzilla with an 18 wheeler tanker truck.
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