Title · no scrobbles indexed yet
Duel is a 1971 American road action thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg in his feature film debut. It centers on a traveling salesman David Mann driving his car through rural California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a semi-truck. The screenplay by Richard Matheson adapts his own short story of the same name, published in the April 1971 issue…
The first scrobble for this title is still propagating, but a community review is already indexed below.
Longform community posts about this title
For decades, television was widely regarded as the inferior sibling of cinema, constrained by technological limitations, modest budgets, and a reliance on serialized storytelling that diluted the grandeur of cinematic spectacle. The medium’s perceived inadequacy in delivering the visceral thrills and visual splendour of the silver screen made it a secondary platform for artistic ambition. It took a rare confluence o…More
No comments yet — be the first.
To talk about Duel is to delve into the cinematic work that marked the beginning of Steven Spielberg's career as a feature film director. This 1971 psychological thriller had a significant impact on the film industry and popular culture. The performance of Dennis Weaver, the film's protagonist, was key in conveying the tension and fear that develops throughout the plot. In addition, Duel has become a cult film due t…More
Suspense, action, thriller, a nightmarish tale, fear of the unknown, a senseless hunt. This is Duel, the first film that Steven Spielberg manages to release in theaters. The filmmaker shows us a nightmarish story where a salesman named David Mann (Dennis Weaver), travels the roads of southern North America very close to the border with Mexico, with his red Plymouth car, however this trip will not be at all quiet to…More
Source Duelo or as it became known in the Spanish-speaking world, "El diablo sobre Ruedas" is Steven Spielberg's first film of 1971. This film was his debut as a filmmaker and he made it known that he could tell a fascinating story with few resources. Framed within suspense, it tells us the life of an ordinary man who travels down a road on a work trip. The tour passes without much shock until an old trailer appears…More
No preview available.
More