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Description of this Duel Movie Poster
Duel is a television film produced by Universal Studios under the direction of Steven Spielberg and first broadcast on November 13, 1971. Due to its great public and critical success, the thriller was marketed internationally from October 1972 as an extended theatrical version, with four additional scenes shot.
In Spielberg’s minimalistically directed film, David Mann, an average American, is pursued for no apparent reason along a deserted highway in the Californian desert by a tanker truck and its mysterious, unrecognizable driver. The confrontation escalates into a duel to the death for David Mann.
Duel gave Steven Spielberg, then 24, his breakthrough in Hollywood and is his oldest surviving feature film. Considered one of the best made-for-TV movies of all time, this cinema classic has been featured in numerous feature films, television series, music videos, and commercials.
Salesman David Mann is driving to a business meeting on a highway through the California desert. During the long, lonely drive, a tanker truck appears in front of him. The driver slows down and prevents Mann from passing. When Mann finally manages to pass, the truck driver seems to have decided to give chase. He overtakes him and slows him down again.
Mann stops at a gas station, refuels his car, and talks to his wife on the phone. At the same time, the truck stops next to Mann’s car, but the driver only gets out briefly, and only his cowboy boots are visible on the ground. After stopping at the gas station, the truck resumes its pursuit. It forces Mann to speed down the highway, pushing him to the limits of his driving abilities. Mann barely manages to stop his vehicle at a rest area, but he damages a fence. Disturbed, he remains seated in his car as the truck speeds by. Exhausted, the man drives into the rest area and thinks he is safe. After freshening up in the restroom, he realizes to his horror that the truck has turned around and is in front of the rest area. Since he hasn’t yet been able to see the trucker’s face, only his cowboy boots, he examines the drivers present and wonders which one might be his pursuer. But since almost all the men at the truck stop are wearing cowboy boots, he can’t identify him. Finally, he harasses a customer he thinks is the perpetrator. The customer fights back and punches Mann a few times. Soon after, it turns out he suspected the wrong person. He then sees the truck start moving again. Mann gives chase but is unable to catch him. Mann continues on his way, but stops after a short distance when a bus driver asks him to push his school bus with his car. As Mann tries in vain to get the school bus to move, the truck appears at the entrance to the nearby tunnel. It stops, and its driver appears to be observing the scene. Mann doesn’t notice it at first because his car’s bumper has caught under the school bus’s bumper. When he notices the truck, its driver turns on his headlights and drives off. Mann tries to draw attention to the danger and get the children back on the school bus, but the bus driver reacts with incomprehension. Panicked, Mann unclips the interlocking bumpers with the bus driver’s help and speeds off in the opposite direction, driving straight past the oncoming truck. In the rearview mirror, he sees the truck turn around and push the school bus.
At a closed railroad crossing, the truck tries to push Mann’s car into a passing freight train. Just as the train clears the crossing in time, Mann runs off down an embankment. While he tries to call the police at another gas station, the truck destroys the phone booth. The man speeds away and hides behind an embankment. He gives the passing truck a head start and thinks he’ll get rid of it. After falling asleep at the wheel of his car, he gets back on the road and is stunned when the truck waits for him behind a ridge. On a climb toward a mountain pass, he manages to lose the stranger, but the radiator hose bursts, the engine overheats, and the truck catches up with him. He arrives just in time at the top of the pass, where the road slopes again and his vehicle picks up speed. He drives slowly along the road, the truck close behind him. He loses control of the vehicle when the engine cuts out and the brakes fail, so that he hits a rock face and comes to a standstill.
When the truck almost reaches him, the engine can be restarted and Mann flees down a dusty side street, which, however, ends in front of a ravine after a short distance. Cornered and deprived of any possibility of escape, he goes on the offensive: he turns the car to drive it head-on towards his pursuer, wedges his briefcase in front of the accelerator, and leaps out of the moving vehicle. The truck hits the car and crashes into the precipice with it. The man jumps up and down for joy, but then remains seated.