3.5/4  A classic Made For Tv movie that stands out!
This film is a highly original piece of work. If it was made today it would not work as well, but back in the early seventies nobody had heard of road rage. It is a simple film that contains sparse dialogue. The most fascinating, but frust... (read full)

1/4  Bad -- even for a Made-for-TV movie
On a deserted stretch of desert highway, "David Mann" (Dennis Weaver) is on his way to an important meeting. He eventually catches up with a slow-moving diesel truck, which he decides to pass by. This causes the truck driver to chase "Mann... (read full)

3/4  A game of cat and mouse between a Semi and a Dart.
"Duel" is an extremely simple plot: Dennis Weaver plays a businessman who, while traveling West on a series of lonely highways, suddenly becomes the target of a truck driver who seeks to punish him for a mistake he had made while driving n... (read full)

3/4  Duel Quick Review
Made for T.V. then extended, Duel becomes Spielberg's first feature length film. Personally i loved it. Although it is slow enough that i cant watch it very often, Spielberg really knows how to use the camera.

5/5 Minimalism at its most entertaining and intense!
  by William Dorfer
It's interesting to think how "Duel" is the film that broke Steven Spielberg through and helped make him the household name he is today. "Duel" is a highly entertaining and suspenseful movie, and one thing that makes this movie so great is how minimalistic the whole thing is! Think about it; how many movies can you name where the whole film is basically one giant chase scene? Any movie that can pull such a feat off and be interesting all the way through is a surefire winner in my book, and "Duel", being such a movie, earns a spot amongst other classic horror/suspense movie that I've seen.

With so little to work with, it makes it that much easier to add detail to everything. Details that were worked to perfect include that of the truck: If you look, it has a railroad track with a bunch of license plates on it...hhmm, a giant truck with the license plates of other cars on its front. Yep, we have a serial killer on the loose! Speaking of which, I also find it curiously interesting that they never show the face of the truck driver, which highlights that the scariest thing about evil is the unknown factor behind it.

Overall, "Duel" is a feat that probably couldn't be pulled off by just any writer and still be as good as it is. "Duel" is a movie that will have you on the edge of your seat almost from the start, and all the way through to its heart-pumping, and satisfying, conclusion! Thanks for the time, and peace.

5/5 duel
  by movie buff
I love the movie, it brought back memories from the past when I first saw it, however, I ordered it thur your site from a different company that said they had them in stock, new, and the price was lower then yours, I ordered it and got a confirmation for the order but then then it came time to have it delivered I received a notice that they did not have it and that I could purchase it thru Amazon at a higher cost. I did that since I wanted the movie but felt I was being misled. A few weeks later I received an email from Amazon saying that I will be receiving a refund for the difference I paid for the film which I thought was wonderful customer service but I have not received anything so once again I think I was being misled. I do not think I will purchase anything from Amazon again because I believe they are not honest with the consumer.

5/5 Jaws on Wheels
  by Jason Kirkfield (Rocky Mountain High)
Spielberg's classic directorial debut and a masterful performance by Dennis Weaver as "everyman" David Mann.

I probably re-watch this movie more than any other. It's amazing what a nugget of a story, along with a skilled lead actor and director, can do for a relatively small amount of money. Makes you realize what schlock we're usually subjected to nowadays.

My favorite scene is probably Chuck's Cafe. There's actually a real restaurant still there, but I think it's a French place.

The DVD has some nice extras, including a couple interviews with Spielberg and one with the writer, Richard Matheson (famous for so many Twilight Zones).

CAN'T BEAT ME ON THE GRADE!!!!!!!!!!!!






5/5 ENDURING TV MOVIE CLASSIC IS A MUST SEE
  by FRED C. DOBBS (USA)
DUEL is a riveting little psychodrama that glued me to my seat as a teenager back in the sweltering Seventies and still does. One of Steven Spielberg's early directorial efforts, it is a classic among TV movies. Simple story of a working family man just trying to drive his car across the barren dust-beaten rural Southwest following, then being followed, by a truck. Soon the truck is trying to drive the poor urbanite off the road. A cat-and-mouse game ensues until things get nasty and it becomes evident that getting killed is a distinct possibility. The goings on take place on a simple stretch of interstate highway. The visual menace is the imposing truck with its exhaust, its metal, its speed. The psychological menace is in the intent, the perceived motive, the senselessness, the isolation. Its driver is faceless---we see a boot here, a rear-view window reflection there, a glancing back-of-the-head shot there. The terror experienced by this poor guy was predominantly in the expansive, intangible universe of his mind where civilized common sense gave way to paranoia and then to rudimentary survival. The lead was played by the always underappreciated Dennis Weaver whose TREMENDOUS performance I will never forget. The scene where he is trying to outrun the truck , with his car's radiator overheating, struggling to get the faltering vehicle beyond the highway incline so that he can coast the rest of the way is memorable. The scene where he walks into a diner in a paranoid daze and surveys the farmers and truckers for possible complicity is a beaut. This was a tense, suspenseful, riveting TV movie and a classic one. Hopefully, it will actuate movie companies to put more of those lost but great late 60's and early-to-mid 70's TV movie gems out on DVD.


5/5 Duel: Road Rage In High Gear. Awsome Thriller!
  by Joseph D. Toth
This is one of Steven Spielberg's earlier films. A innocent motorist played by Dennis Weaver mixes it up with a old horrific semi truck. As you listen to the thoughts of the innocent motorist who is trying to get away from the truck, the suspense and thrill of the chase set in.

The movie runs 90 minutes and is rated PG.

I found myself remaining seated wanting to see the whole thing through without interruption.

I have this movie in my personal DVD collection. It's a keeper!

Reporter Joseph Toth
Washington Micro Bank BBS