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Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

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Date: 28 Apr 2012 10:20:00
Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:29:13 | 7,96 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 755 Kbps and AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

While traveling through the desert for an appointment with a client, the businessman David Mann from California passes a slow and old tanker truck. The psychotic truck driver feels offended and chases David along the empty highway trying to kill him.

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Made for ABC-TV, Steven Spielberg's first solo directing credit (he contributed a segment for the pilot-film for the TV series "Night Gallery.") is an exquisite piece of streamlined suspense and action that clearly demonstrates that the 24-year-old filmmaker was already in full control of his vision.

A largely non-verbal narrative follows a milquetoast everyman (Dennis Weaver) on a business trip that draws him out of the comfortable suburbs and into the barren desert. Still smarting from a fight with his wife–in which she complained he wasn't assertive enough–Mann cuts in front of a diesel truck. Several miles later the vengeful truck reappears, horn blaring, to terrorize the lone motorist. The big rig tries to run Mann off the road, push him into an oncoming train, and crush him when he frantically tries to get help at a roadside tourist trap.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

Finally, his battered family sedan overheating, Mann turns onto a butte and aims the car directly at the waiting truck, wedging the accelerator down before leaping to safety. The truck driver bulldozes the auto off a downgrade but, blinded by smoke, fails to shift into reverse until it's too late and goes over the edge as well.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

After his triumph, the tattered Weaver crouches by the roadside, a modern primitive; not coincidentally, the doomed truck seems to roar and writhe like a prehistoric beast as it wrecks in slow motion. Except for a hand at the steering wheel and legs with cowboy boots glimpsed at a rest stop, the psychotic truck driver is never seen. His vehicle, a huge, dark, exhaust-belching juggernaut, takes on a malevolent personality all its own and compares well with such elemental Spielberg beasts as the shark in JAWS and the T-Rex in JURASSIC PARK, though Weaver also deserves kudos for his virtual one-man-show as the reluctant David pitted against a mechanized Goliath.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

Steven Spielberg was directing TV episodes for Universal when a contact in the mailroom showed him Richard Matheson's script. Spielberg campaigned for and won the directing assignment, completing the project for $300,000. Like many an American TV movie, DUEL went into theaters in Europe, but unlike other recycled television product, it became a major hit. DUEL won the Cariddi D'Oro for its debuting director at the Taormina Film Festial in Rome and a Grand Prize from the Festival du Cinema Fantastique in France, in addition to earning $9 million at the box office and marking a milestone in Steven Spielberg's fledgling career. Following his smash with E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL in 1982, Universal re-released DUEL in selected American cinemas.
TV Guide
Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

…We've never run a review of it before and as Steven Spielberg's first real movie – and arguably his only real horror movie, if you don't count "Jaws" – it's a worthy entry. It was actually a TV movie in the U.S. but hit theaters in Europe with some added scenes added to lengthen its time and make it more film-like (expletives were included for Europe). Actually horror movies were so good in the very early 1970s, that even the TV movies had something to offer. Needless to say, it was clear from this that Spielberg was an uber-talent.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

Weaver plays a wimpy businessman on a road trip to a business appointment, which is taking him through the California desert. Derided by his wife over the phone for being such a wuss, he eventually winds up in a major road conflict with a mysterious, unseen truck driver. In fact, we only ever get to see the truck driver's bare arm as it waves him to pass before trying to run him off the road.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

The film is terrifying because, as Weaver is attempting to get folks in the desert to believe that he is being terrorized by a mysterious truck driver, he finds no support. In fact, his attempts at identifying the driver at a local truck stop –and confronting him – only lead to embarrassment over mistaken identities and winds up getting his ass kicked. People think he's crazy. Eventually it becomes clear that only he can do battle with the truck driver if he wants to survive.

Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

The film pits the awesome talents of Richard Matheson (the novel "I Am Legend" and the screenplays of "Fall of the House of Usher," "Pit and Pendulum" and countless "Twilight Zone" episodes) with Spielberg, delivering one of the best genre films of the past 50 years. Spielberg's other experience with horror was directing an episode in Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" TV movie in 1969. That TV movie would eventually spawn the "NG" series of the early 1970s, the best horror series of that decade. Pretty much every road movie since – from "The Hitcher" to "Jeepers Creepers" and "Joy Ride" – borrows liberally from this masterpiece. None of them are close to as good. It's a shame Spielberg never really made another horror movie again.
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Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]

Special Features:
- "Duel - A Conversation With Steven Spielberg" documentary (35:42)
- "Steven Spielberg And The Small Screen" featurette (9:28)
- "Richard Matheson: The Writing Of Duel" featurette (9:24)
- Photograph & Poster Gallery (3:31)
- International Theatrical Trailer (1min)
- Production Notes
- Cast & Crew Biographies and Filmographies
Duel (1971) [Collector's Edition]


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