Actor/Actress: Dennis Weaver,
Jacqueline Scott,
Eddie
Firestone,
Lou Frizzell,
Gene Dynarski,
Lucille Benson,
Tim Herbert,
Charles Seel,
Shirley O'Hara,
Alexander Lockwood;
Director: Steven Spielberg;
Year: 1971;
Runtime: 90 Minutes;
TV Rating: PG;
Language: English;
Video: Color;
Closed Captioned: Y;
UPC: 025192197628;
Screen Ratio: Fullscreen;
Discs: 1;
Features: Y;
Before spinning cinematic gold from sharks, dinosaurs and homesick
aliens, a young Steven Spielberg directed this high-velocity thriller
about an innocent motorist terrorized by an evil truck.
Spielberg's
first full-length movie,
DUEL helped jumpstart the director's
big-screen career, with a gripping, action-packed story hailed by
critics as a film that "...belongs on the classics shelf reserved for
top suspensers" (
Daily Variety).
Dennis Weaver stars as the traveling
salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is
mysteriously singled out for destruction.
Praised for its deft use of
relentlessly mounting psychological tension,
DUEL features one of the
most uniquely terrifying "characters" in movie history: a massive,
roaring 40-ton truck with more sheer menace than most flesh-and-blood
villains. But Steven Spielberg was, literally, just getting started. A
few years later, the action of Spielberg's blockbuster hit
JAWS would
echo
DUEL's tale of a lone hero in a heart-stopping fight to the finish
against a monstrous, inhuman foe.
