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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 17, 2004
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dennis Weaver | |
Performer: | Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Lucille Benson, Lou Frizzell & Jacqueline Scott | |
Directed by | Steven Spielberg | |
Edited by | Frank Morriss | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Matheson | |
Composition by | Billy Goldenberg | |
Produced by | George Eckstein | |
Director of Photography: | Jack A. Marta |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
... 'road rage' taken to new heights of exploitation by the boy wonder.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...DUEL looks like the work of an unusually talented young director...
New York Times
Rating: A- --
At 24, Spielberg demonsrated his technical virtuosity with his first made for TV feature, a nail-biting suspenser of a salesman pursued on the roadby a mad trucker.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 10/10 --
This is among the most flawless pieces of entertainment [Steven Spielberg] ever put his name to.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 5/5 --
Once you've seen it, you'll never forget it.
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Radio Times
Rating: B+ --
The film's rusted, growling tanker truck is an obvious predecessor to the man-eating Great White of Jaws. And it's every bit as terrifying.
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Projection Booth
This 1971 made-for-TV movie was one of Steven Spielberg's auditions for Jaws, and the same slickly impersonal shock effects prevail.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
DUEL, one of Steven Spielberg's first vehicles, foreshadowed the blockbuster film JAWS. Using minimal dialogue and effects, Spielberg defines the characteristics of his prolific oeuvre in this early work. Through tight cinematic narration, he effectively conveys the sudden and shocking horror that develops over the course of the film.
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. 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 added.
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. 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 added.
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