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Duel is a american film of genre Drama directed by Steven Spielberg released in USA on 22 april 1983 with Dennis Weaver

Duel (1971)

Duel
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Released in USA 22 april 1983
Length 1h14
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Horror
Rating75% 3.7975853.7975853.7975853.7975853.797585

Duel is a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson, based on Matheson's short story of the same name. It stars Dennis Weaver as a terrified motorist stalked on a remote and lonely road by the mostly unseen driver of a mysterious tanker truck.

Synopsis

David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a middle-aged Los Angeles electronics salesman driving his red 1971 Plymouth Valiant sedan on a business trip. On a two-lane highway in the California desert, he encounters a grimy and rusty 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck, traveling slower than the speed limit and expelling thick plumes of sooty diesel exhaust. Mann passes the unsightly truck, which promptly roars past him and then slows down again. Mann is unmoved, passing the truck a second time, and is startled when it suddenly issues a long air horn blast.

Actors

Dennis Weaver

(David Mann)Carey Loftin

(The Truck Driver)Jacqueline Scott

(Mrs. Mann)Eddie Firestone

(Cafe Owner)Lou Frizzell

(le chauffeur du bus scolaire (version cinéma uniquement))
And :
Eugene Dynarski
Lucille Benson
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