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Has the movie "Duel" been discussed on here before?
Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:07 pm
Ran across the full movie on youtube, and watched it, then found other partial clips and interviews with Spielberg on his first major project.
Thought it was a very suspenseful movie for 1971. You can tell he took note of how Hitchcock created suspense.
To me it was a really good overall movie for when it came out, and I've always been a huge fan of 18 wheelers in movies.
Dennis Weaver did a great job in his role, and never showing the truck drivers face was brilliant.
Anyone else seen it, what are your thoughts?
Thought it was a very suspenseful movie for 1971. You can tell he took note of how Hitchcock created suspense.
To me it was a really good overall movie for when it came out, and I've always been a huge fan of 18 wheelers in movies.
Dennis Weaver did a great job in his role, and never showing the truck drivers face was brilliant.
Anyone else seen it, what are your thoughts?
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Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:22 pm to kywildcatfanone
I started replying thinking you were talking about the Duelists(1977) but then I reread and no, I haven’t seen your movie
Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:29 pm to kywildcatfanone
The TV episode Spielberg shot before Duel
quote:The script, by celebrated scifi novelist Wylie (When Worlds Collide), is an environmentalist satire on 1970 America in the manner of Planet Of The Apes or The Omega Man. I expected it to be badly dated but it actually holds up quite well. There is a classic scene involving a hippie rock band.
"L.A. 2017" is a 1971 episode of the NBC television series The Name of the Game. Sometimes referred to as "Los Angeles: AD 2017" (the name of Philip Wylie's subsequent novel based on his script) or "Los Angeles 2017", this was a science fiction piece, shot for only $375,000, about a publisher, Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), who finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists. Its director, the 24-year-old Steven Spielberg, used imaginative camera angles to drive his first movie-length television episode across and remarked in later years that the show "opened a lot of doors for me".
Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:29 pm to kywildcatfanone
Haven’t seen it in many a year. I remember it being a really good movie. I’ll have to watch it on BoobTube.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 12:47 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 9/1/19 at 6:13 pm to kywildcatfanone
I liked it. Freaked me out when I first saw it in the 70's, but if it was on, I watched it.
In my opinion I think that it was the Devil driving the semi-truck.
In my opinion I think that it was the Devil driving the semi-truck.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 6:34 pm to kywildcatfanone
quote:Very true!
never showing the truck drivers face was brilliant
Saw this movie as a kid. It is a very stark and suspenseful movie. There only seemed to be a handful of people in the whole movie. All extras like a gas station attendant and the like.
On a personal note it somewhat scarred me as a kid to where I never wanted a car that couldn’t blow the doors off a semi
Posted on 9/1/19 at 7:22 pm to kywildcatfanone
One of my favorites. Immense talent from a young age, I remember one moment where you see SS in the reflection from a phone booth. If I were to meet Spielberg, I would want to discuss Duel, Jaws, and Indy..but really would listen to anything he said
Posted on 9/1/19 at 7:35 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Thought it was a very suspenseful movie for 1971.
Even crazier that it was a made for TV movie and debuted as the ABC movie of the week.
It was a staple of basic cable and UHF television in the 80's and 90's; no telling how many times I watched at least part of the movie.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 9:07 pm to kywildcatfanone
I remember waking up to Duel one morning at about 2am when I was about 7 years old. I fell in love with that movie.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 9:40 pm to PowerTool
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Even crazier that it was a made for TV movie and debuted as the ABC movie of the week
How much he got out of that film with the budget they had
His world building 
Posted on 9/1/19 at 9:58 pm to kywildcatfanone
I saw back in the early 70's and yes it was spooky for the time. This was before Spielberg was known and then Jaws came out in 74 or 75 ....
Posted on 9/1/19 at 9:59 pm to kywildcatfanone
Speilberg's first studio film
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:04 am to kywildcatfanone
Loved this film.
It's a great movie to pass time with, eating a meal or just kicking back with a good bowl.
It's a great movie to pass time with, eating a meal or just kicking back with a good bowl.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:27 am to kywildcatfanone
I could have sworn there was a remake of this, but can’t find it on IMDb.
ETA- Found it, Wrecker (2015) IMDb link, but have yet to watch it. On Amazon Prime and Netflix.
ETA- Found it, Wrecker (2015) IMDb link, but have yet to watch it. On Amazon Prime and Netflix.
This post was edited on 9/2/19 at 12:30 am
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:56 am to PowerTool
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Even crazier that it was a made for TV movie and debuted as the ABC movie of the week.
And was so successful, they shot like an additional 14 minutes of film to release it in theaters. It's become one of my favorite movies.
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