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Duel
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Description of this Duel Film 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 the great public and critical success, the thriller was marketed internationally from October 1972 as extended cinema version, with four additional scenes filmed.
In this minimalist film by Spielberg, David Mann, an average American, is pursued for no apparent reason on a deserted highway in the Californian desert by a tanker truck and its mysterious, unrecognizable driver. The confrontation, which intensifies, turns into a duel to the death for David Mann.
Duel allowed Steven Spielberg, then 24 years old, to break into Hollywood and is his oldest feature film still preserved in its entirety. Considered one of the best TV films of all time, this cinema classic has been featured in numerous feature films, television series, music videos and commercials.
David Mann, sales representative, goes to a business meeting at the wheel of his car on a highway crossing the Californian desert. During the long, lonely journey, a tanker truck appeared in front of him. The driver slows down and prevents Mann from passing him. When Mann still managed to overtake him, the truck driver seemed to have decided to chase Mann. He overtakes him and slows him down again.
Mann stops at a gas station, fills up 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 the chase. He forces Mann to speed down the highway, pushing him to the limit 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 while the truck speeds by. Exhausted, the man enters the rest area and thinks he is safe. After freshening up in the toilet, he notices to his horror that the truck has turned around and is in front of the rest area. Since he has not yet been able to see the trucker's face, only his cowboy boots, he examines the drivers present and wonders which one could be his pursuer. But since almost all the men in the highway restaurant wear cowboy boots, he can't identify him. Finally, he harasses a customer who he thinks is the perpetrator. He defends himself and punches Mann a few times. Soon after, it turns out that he suspected the wrong person. He then sees the truck start moving again. Mann chases after him, but fails to reach him.
Mann continues on his way, but stops after a short journey because a bus driver asks him to push his school bus with his car. As Mann struggles in vain to get the school bus to move, the truck appears at the entrance to the nearby tunnel. He stops and his driver seems to observe the scene. Mann doesn't notice it at first, because the bumper of his car gets caught under the bumper of the school bus. 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 detaches the attached bumpers with the help of the bus driver and speeds away in the opposite direction, 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 attempts to push Mann's car into a passing freight train. As the train passed the level crossing just in time, Mann fled down an embankment. While trying to call the police at another gas station, the truck destroys the phone booth. The man fled at full speed and hid behind an embankment. He gives the passing truck a head start and thus thinks about getting rid of it. After sleeping behind the wheel of his car, he hits the road again and is stunned when the truck waits for him behind a ridge. On a climb towards a mountain pass, he manages to miss the unknown, but the radiator pipe 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 becomes sloping again and his vehicle picks up speed. He drives slowly down the road, the truck close behind him. He lost control of the vehicle when the engine stopped and the brakes failed, causing him to hit a rock wall and come to a stop.
When the truck almost reached him, the engine could be restarted and Mann fled down a dusty side street, which, however, ended in front of a ravine after a short journey. 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, jams his briefcase in front of the accelerator and jumps out of the vehicle walk. The truck hits the car and crashes with it into the precipice. The man jumps around for joy, but then sits still.
