It seemed like even on a low budget Spielberg and his DP wanted to move the camera as much as possible to avoid multiple cuts. I would say this is the DP's brilliance but its a reoccuring theme in Spielberg movies so I'm going to guess its a part of his style. Style, or it was just too time consuming to edit film back then...? From 5:20-5:47 there are only two continuous shots but so much happens within the dolly blocking. So much work for those shots, but man is it effortless to watch!
LOL it makes me laugh and cry at the same time to see that when this guy pulls into a gas station he gets an attendant who wants to check under his hood. Its a past record of the fact that this used to be a good country. Than all the asshole aliens came into this country with such disregard for their fellow man and turned it into what it is today. A gang ridden, shit hole filled with assholes who only care for themselves.
Thanks for uploading! Damn awesome movie......well done by a young Steven Spielberg.......I still love it after all these years. That trucker was nuts man...he just wanted to play......but not play nice.
I would have never thought Dennis Weaver would fit in a film like this after doing Gunsmoke, but he's awesome in it.... My favorite line in the movie "Cmon, get that fat ass truck outa the way! " LOL
At 2:21 you should be able to see the truck driver's face. At least on the DVD version I could make it out clearer. And to my surprise he doesn't look one ioda like a psycho but like someone's grandpa or nextdoor neighbor!! Scarey.
Once I had a date with a beautiful girl. I think she didn't like me so much, as she seemed bored. After one hour or so she decided to go home, with that excuse, that she still had a long way to drive. And I thought by myself: "I wish you a road with no traffic; just one rusty old Peterbilt...!"
During the scene where Mann is at the gas station, he asks the attendant to "fill her up with ethol" (presumably Ethanol). Does this fuel explain why the car struggles to manage to out run the truck?
I first saw this on tv in 1974 or 1975,when I was in junior high. Watched it with an older cousin who lived with us for a number of years. We were quite taken with it. It was on CBC. Over the years it only seems to show up on A AND E,at least where I live,in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada.
@gorillaz6399 hahahah wow.. that was the quickest reply i ever got on youtube.. thanx for the info... i love those old trucks.. hard to find these days anymore.
I like the scene showing the way gas stations used to be with full service. My hometown still had a full service station up until 4 years ago; that's about the last one I can recall.
But watch closely, and go back to compare, but they have used the exact same piece of footage for both times Dennis overtakes the truck!. Pay attention to the road, and the timber markers and telegraph poles at the roadside on the left.
@SixFoHopper ..you right...is one of my favorite films . Probably a small budget is the reason for using the same area. I saw those part of the roads and I agree but that I am still fan...
@jamie211983 Yes there were 2 versions, one for theaters and one for televison, the television version was 74 minutes long and the theater version was 90 minutes long. The parts that were added (later) for the theater version were the conversation on the telephone that Weaver has with his wife @ the gast station and the incident with the school bus children @ the tunnel.
There are some that do not like to be passed out . They really get extremely angry. Maybe because they feel superior in their driving and that others on the road are inferior to his way of driving. This road rage incident went beyond loosing control to not letting his ego go by the trucker.
Nah, no supernatural goings on such as in 'Christine' or hinted at alien control like in 'Maximum Overdrive', just a good old nutball in a truck (you see his arm and legs at various points but never his face), entertaining himself by scaring and potentially killing motorists who were 'asking for it' by overtaking him. Note all the licence plates on the front of the truck, trophies from cars he has done this to before.
@charlieflint wat im wondering is why he get mad by people over taking his truck prob 30 years old and that plymouth has a better engine and less weight its gona over take him
I'm not sure we will ever know why the trucker did what he did, but maybe he was someone who was a good family man who lost everything and turned into an outlaw who has a sharp dislike for the rest of humanity after what happened, he might have been bored and was doing it for nothing more than 'sport' of it, or maybe even lonely but lacking the ability to interact with people, this being the only way he knows how. Very deep for a morning!
You should have gotten that radiator hose Dennis! His need for it later in the film is one of the nice little touches that Richard Matheson always seems to put into his screenplays.
This is a great movie. And let's not forget that it's due as much to Richard Matheson ( of Twilight Zone writing fame) as to Spielberg and the man Dennis Weaver.
@bananasplitsable Yes a machine in human form and some quasi-human qualities. A truck is an entirely different and realistic type of machine compared to a cyborg in a science fiction film. Transformers was another with 'machines' but I suppose Dual was set presentday 1971 and was possible. There were short glances of the driver's legs and arms, but the character presented to the viewer was a huge truck
I love old fasion horror movies like this.I have watched Maximum overdrive,Christine,and other movies could someone tell me what other good movies there are so I may watch them.Im 13 by the way.
@GameFanAndOthers Some classics that have a good plot are: The Omen (original with Gregory Peck) The Shining, The Exorcist, Carrie, and a good psychological thriller is Jacob's Ladder (inspired to make Silent Hill)
coming from a horror fan since a long time those are good to start off with.
hell where did these gas stations go? you never hear "can i check under the hood for yah any more!" heck ill start a gas station / burger stop / car show area you know? bring ya back to the 50's
I gotta admit Dennis is such a dumb shit in this movie that I actually started rooting for the fuel truck at the end. What kind of a dumb ass disregards a leaking radiator hose while driving through the desert?
I love how the movie jumps right in- theres no sugarcoated crap. It just gets right in- and you didn't even suspect the truck driver. Your waiting for somthing to happen and it is happening! this movie is awesome.
The truck (or.. one of them, they had two for the production) was sold not long ago to some lucky guy. Imagine having it on your driveway and following your neighbours as they go to work :-).
A Plymouth Valiant with a slant six probably, as he does comment on its lack of power. Small by American standards, but about the same size as a Vauxhall Cresta in England.
On the DVD there is an interview with Steven Spielberg when mentions the license plates on the front of the truck are from the other cars he has destroyed. Spielberg mentions, "The driver wanted to destroy a car in every state."
That ain't a Peterbilt! It's the entire Europe over wheels! OmGod, it's sooooo enormous. And so evil and scary. And so freaking cool! I'd love to have one.
1955 281 model... It was a 16 years old truck at the time... but currently is a 55 years old museum masterpiece. I love american vehicles. They're sooo huge, whatever their category.
@TURBODORK2 I've always thought that too. I've come to the conclusion that he likely was out driving around just to find people to attack, like he did to Dennis. ;) Seriously.
I am a truck driver and I sometimes feel like the truck driver in the movie. You drive long hours, you had a bad day, you still have to drive another 5 hours to your destination and you have exhausted every possibility of beating this dead boredom and sleepiness. Suddenly deep in the night some car cuts you off. You say to yourself - I am going to teach him a lesson. I am going to play a little game so my time goes faster-.
Nothing. I think the truck driver was just a ticking time bomb. there is a lot of crazy truck drivers out there who get ticked off by little things in general. They drive long hours and you're always in some kind of danger, so your nerves get little worn out over time. Dennis just passed him, did nothing wrong. You can see how when dennis tried to pass him again, truck started playing with him, had nothing better to do.
Yes, I think that is what Spielberg wanted to show us in the movie. He never showed the face of the driver. It is man against the machine like a robot that goes bezerk and starts killing people. Its funny you see dennis and his demeanor when he's driving before meeting the truck, all relaxed and comfortable like an old lady going to church on sundays until slowly all hell breaks loose and he's running for his life. In every day life this movie doesnt make sense, but it really tells you a lot.
That wasn't his motive. Yeah, Mann passed him, but so would over 20 million other people, including plenty of America's truckers. Anybody with a schedule and some desire to not stay behind a slow-moving, dirty truck would have passed him. The rig's driver was likely a serial killer, an idea further given credence by the various license plates that the Peterbilt wears that don't belong to it. Mann was just the driver's next target, and in the end his last.
It seemed like even on a low budget Spielberg and his DP wanted to move the camera as much as possible to avoid multiple cuts. I would say this is the DP's brilliance but its a reoccuring theme in Spielberg movies so I'm going to guess its a part of his style. Style, or it was just too time consuming to edit film back then...? From 5:20-5:47 there are only two continuous shots but so much happens within the dolly blocking. So much work for those shots, but man is it effortless to watch!
michaelandjennyshow 4 days ago
LOL it makes me laugh and cry at the same time to see that when this guy pulls into a gas station he gets an attendant who wants to check under his hood. Its a past record of the fact that this used to be a good country. Than all the asshole aliens came into this country with such disregard for their fellow man and turned it into what it is today. A gang ridden, shit hole filled with assholes who only care for themselves.
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driving behind that truck would be a pain in the arse, but it seems better than driving in front of that truck.
coventrygardens 1 month ago
this movie is awesome. wish i could find a copy of the book somewhere...
29iceskater 1 month ago
Dennis, get out and pump the freaking gas yourself! :)
RTD8481 2 months ago
@RTD8481 Why would he do that? He is in a better time period than this one!
crashroader 3 weeks ago
2:20
that's when you know to slow down and pull of the road
cuz the truck driver's a psycho
what else do you need to know?
smp156 2 months ago 2
no 1 trucking programme
loftypowell 3 months ago
Thanks for uploading! Damn awesome movie......well done by a young Steven Spielberg.......I still love it after all these years. That trucker was nuts man...he just wanted to play......but not play nice.
beachboy519711 3 months ago
lol "I play meat"....I'm sure a lot of men do, strange radio caller...
kdreamland 3 months ago
I would have never thought Dennis Weaver would fit in a film like this after doing Gunsmoke, but he's awesome in it.... My favorite line in the movie "Cmon, get that fat ass truck outa the way! " LOL
RubiTrack 4 months ago
thats sick man that sick lmao!!
FNCdrums 4 months ago
sometimes that chatter coming from his car radio sounds like steven spielberg
barkpeeler2000 4 months ago
"Fill it with ethyl
"If Ethel don't mind!"
RockabillyAutopsy 4 months ago
Watch again at 2:44-2:47 as David passes the truck for the second time and you"ll get another quick glimpse of the driver from the side
blanchefful 5 months ago
At 2:21 you should be able to see the truck driver's face. At least on the DVD version I could make it out clearer. And to my surprise he doesn't look one ioda like a psycho but like someone's grandpa or nextdoor neighbor!! Scarey.
blanchefful 5 months ago
I passed a 70s Pete on the road a few days ago. It had the round head lights. Creeped me out when he got up behind me.
TheDustyspears 6 months ago
Lol you can buy those boots in Peacocks, £15:p
TheCfShow 6 months ago
Such a simple idea, turned into one of the most suspenseful movies i ever watched....
fustyans 6 months ago
Once I had a date with a beautiful girl. I think she didn't like me so much, as she seemed bored. After one hour or so she decided to go home, with that excuse, that she still had a long way to drive. And I thought by myself: "I wish you a road with no traffic; just one rusty old Peterbilt...!"
Confederate66 7 months ago 12
@Confederate66 Than she pulls out her cell phone and your wish goes the same way of 80% of peoples dreams today.... DOWN THE CRAPPER.
crashroader 3 weeks ago
where`s the sherffe when you need him ! LOL when he`snt busy harassing the innocent truckers just doing their jobs
Bignadim 7 months ago
"Talk about pollution!"
Snootiest comment ever :D
WeAreTheSHWE 7 months ago
2:19 Cummins sound ?
peterbiltcentury 8 months ago
During the scene where Mann is at the gas station, he asks the attendant to "fill her up with ethol" (presumably Ethanol). Does this fuel explain why the car struggles to manage to out run the truck?
mmotorway 8 months ago
@mmotorway it wasn't meant to be ethanol, the gas back then did have something that was called "ethyl".
87bigdaddy 7 months ago
@87bigdaddy Thanks for that...I thought I was onto something for a minute there! :-)
mmotorway 7 months ago
@mmotorway
That's ethyl and it meant their premium grade of fuel.
wdbreezy 6 months ago
Steven Spielberg predicted road rage, long time since it even started
popperpudd 8 months ago
he should have taken the hint and not passed a second time...lol
shialover777 8 months ago
Typical jackass driver, pass him up, he speeds up right passed you, and then drives slow again!
hahaha
Goststriker 8 months ago in playlist ƒιℓм: Duel (1971)
could you tell me what dvd edition this is from?
ExclusiveEXCL111 8 months ago
I first saw this on tv in 1974 or 1975,when I was in junior high. Watched it with an older cousin who lived with us for a number of years. We were quite taken with it. It was on CBC. Over the years it only seems to show up on A AND E,at least where I live,in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada.
AmyandClaireshow 9 months ago
" talk about pullution " :D
XxKhloeZombiixX 9 months ago
Love this film, That truck is sick
privatejoker1000 9 months ago
what a truck whats is the make of it???
TheThomasf99 9 months ago
Is that the same truck from stallones "over the top" ?
beg for responding, peace
GoldjungeSantino 10 months ago
@GoldjungeSantino the overthe top truck was a 1967 autocar and the truck truck in duel was a 1956 peterbilt 281
1978mtb 9 months ago
reminds me of jd and the janitor :S
ShinoRichard 11 months ago
Its just Jeepers Creepers trying to scare the guy to find out what parts he want to eat!
RatBatSpiderCrab 11 months ago
this truck scares pretty much than all fuckers of terror movie
ColodeHurlingham 11 months ago
@ColodeHurlingham
Learn English.
LouieTheGamer 9 months ago
@LouieTheGamer gay
ColodeHurlingham 9 months ago
would anyone possibly know what year and make that peterbilt is ??
johnnydanger1182 11 months ago
@johnnydanger1182: 1955 Peterbilt 281
gorillaz6399 11 months ago
@gorillaz6399 hahahah wow.. that was the quickest reply i ever got on youtube.. thanx for the info... i love those old trucks.. hard to find these days anymore.
johnnydanger1182 11 months ago
The Horn is in the key of ( F) for guitar musicians thats the ( D) string 3rd fret --Your Welcome
rollingstopp 11 months ago
that truck reminds me of jeepers creepers
e16able 11 months ago
fuck...when the camera pans over @ 1:00 that is a badass fucking truck
fidellah23 1 year ago
I like the scene showing the way gas stations used to be with full service. My hometown still had a full service station up until 4 years ago; that's about the last one I can recall.
drc1981 1 year ago
listen to the sound when the truck rolling on the gas station awesome
DjHellfire25 1 year ago
@DjHellfire25 jake brake
e16able 11 months ago
My favorite part is from 2:19 to 2:28. Listen to the sound of that thing!
84randomdude 1 year ago
I love how they keep avoiding showing the driver in the right seat!
TheCfShow 1 year ago
Damn just stay behind him! He is going a decent speed and you won't see those trucks very often. lol
wheely132 1 year ago
frig id just love to see one of these petes on the highway some day
89s10lvr 1 year ago
I think James Cameron was influenced by this, I see similarities in his action films.
carlsetzer 1 year ago
One of my favourite films of all time!
But watch closely, and go back to compare, but they have used the exact same piece of footage for both times Dennis overtakes the truck!. Pay attention to the road, and the timber markers and telegraph poles at the roadside on the left.
Great great film!
SixFoHopper 1 year ago 53
@SixFoHopper ..you right...is one of my favorite films . Probably a small budget is the reason for using the same area. I saw those part of the roads and I agree but that I am still fan...
crystoyu 9 months ago
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cloud4an 7 months ago
@SixFoHopper u are so right i seen tht same thing
lavonna09 6 months ago
is there some of this film missing or something??
jamie211983 1 year ago
@jamie211983 Yes there were 2 versions, one for theaters and one for televison, the television version was 74 minutes long and the theater version was 90 minutes long. The parts that were added (later) for the theater version were the conversation on the telephone that Weaver has with his wife @ the gast station and the incident with the school bus children @ the tunnel.
mpsicily 1 year ago
There are some that do not like to be passed out . They really get extremely angry. Maybe because they feel superior in their driving and that others on the road are inferior to his way of driving. This road rage incident went beyond loosing control to not letting his ego go by the trucker.
YOU2UUB 1 year ago
@YOU2UUB That was always my theory about the trucker too.
drc1981 1 year ago
so is this basiclly christine and maximum overdrive combined a truck that has the power to drive its self and put its self back together
SuperPaintball27 1 year ago
@SuperPaintball27
Nah, no supernatural goings on such as in 'Christine' or hinted at alien control like in 'Maximum Overdrive', just a good old nutball in a truck (you see his arm and legs at various points but never his face), entertaining himself by scaring and potentially killing motorists who were 'asking for it' by overtaking him. Note all the licence plates on the front of the truck, trophies from cars he has done this to before.
One of my all time favourite movies!
charlieflint 1 year ago
@charlieflint oh oops
SuperPaintball27 1 year ago
@charlieflint wat im wondering is why he get mad by people over taking his truck prob 30 years old and that plymouth has a better engine and less weight its gona over take him
SuperPaintball27 1 year ago
@SuperPaintball27
I'm not sure we will ever know why the trucker did what he did, but maybe he was someone who was a good family man who lost everything and turned into an outlaw who has a sharp dislike for the rest of humanity after what happened, he might have been bored and was doing it for nothing more than 'sport' of it, or maybe even lonely but lacking the ability to interact with people, this being the only way he knows how. Very deep for a morning!
There's a wiki page too! :-)
charlieflint 1 year ago
@SuperPaintball27 Well no, it's got a driver and at the end it gets destroyed so not quite. LOL The driver is the negative force in this one. :)
tall32guy 3 months ago
he should have gone to specsavers lol
cybergillcybergill 1 year ago
at 2:20 i got a eargazm
MrSoccernugget 1 year ago
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'talk about polusion' then close the damn window you dumb fucker
MrSoccernugget 1 year ago
'talk about polusion' the close the damn window you dumb fucker
MrSoccernugget 1 year ago
You should have gotten that radiator hose Dennis! His need for it later in the film is one of the nice little touches that Richard Matheson always seems to put into his screenplays.
chomsky88 1 year ago
"flammable" thats sense of humor
safari0317 1 year ago
This is a great movie. And let's not forget that it's due as much to Richard Matheson ( of Twilight Zone writing fame) as to Spielberg and the man Dennis Weaver.
Jitpring 1 year ago
Isn't that McCloud.
lemonadesqueeze71 1 year ago
Nice Sideburns Dennis!
Nathanrailfan 1 year ago
Classic psycho-drama --- one of the greats!
149PCE 1 year ago
stephen's first movie and its one of his best, this goes to show you how talented he is
NickBFilms 1 year ago
the second time he passed the truck was the same shot as the first time he passed it
fortier2727 1 year ago
The truck driver is probably just ticked that he was passed in a no-passing zone.
Phanfer 1 year ago
@Phanfer Hardly a hanging offence
weenyone 1 year ago
@Phanfer Hardly a hanging offence. I am trying to think of another major film where one of the two main characters is an machine.
weenyone 1 year ago
@weenyone Terminator?
bananasplitsable 1 year ago
@bananasplitsable Yes a machine in human form and some quasi-human qualities. A truck is an entirely different and realistic type of machine compared to a cyborg in a science fiction film. Transformers was another with 'machines' but I suppose Dual was set presentday 1971 and was possible. There were short glances of the driver's legs and arms, but the character presented to the viewer was a huge truck
weenyone 1 year ago
The voice on the radio sounds sorta like KIT's voice in Knight Rider.
thedoors781 1 year ago
0:38 Talk about pollution
Lufttygger306 1 year ago
Steven's first "major" film. And a VERY good and impressive start to a long career, I think. :)
tall32guy 1 year ago
I never understood the appeal to this movie. This is a movie about my commute to work.
jawsrock1 1 year ago
@jawsrock1 Pity you didn't film it before Spielberg!
bananasplitsable 1 year ago
he overtakes on the same corner 2x , funny to see an aircon car with quater windows , some glory shots of the motor would have been nice lol
vcval 1 year ago
The man on the radio at the beginning sounds just like KITT! Was William Daniels in this movie?
designguy50 1 year ago
@designguy50 agreed
SlashButcher 1 year ago
new radiator hose?? car is like 2 yrs old lol!
duufus69 1 year ago
To me, this has paved the way for these later movies with tense road sequences:
Mad Max
The Hitcher
Jeepers Creepers
You think?
wandererlain 1 year ago
I love old fasion horror movies like this.I have watched Maximum overdrive,Christine,and other movies could someone tell me what other good movies there are so I may watch them.Im 13 by the way.
GameFanAndOthers 1 year ago 7
@GameFanAndOthers Try "The Car", you will love it kid :)
SlashButcher 1 year ago
@GameFanAndOthers "The Car" definitely a cult classic.
haldflas80 1 year ago
@GameFanAndOthers try '' the hills have eyes'' i'ts awesome! i also like desert road drama and horror movies :)
samalayork 1 year ago
@GameFanAndOthers the other movies you mention are simply not in the same league as Duel.
Nevertheless, try these: (Terminator & Alien series, Jaws, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Thing, Psycho)
Those should screw your head up a lil.
If you want B-titles, try (Repo Man, The Mist, Prince of Darkness, Eraserhead)
myrtlebox 8 months ago
@GameFanAndOthers maximum overdrive was like alittle creepy and alittle gory and allot of awesome
walker29100 8 months ago
@GameFanAndOthers Some classics that have a good plot are: The Omen (original with Gregory Peck) The Shining, The Exorcist, Carrie, and a good psychological thriller is Jacob's Ladder (inspired to make Silent Hill)
coming from a horror fan since a long time those are good to start off with.
JAZZSTARish 8 months ago
@GameFanAndOthers There are "The Car", "Throttle" or "Wheels of Terror" you could watch!
anacondastrike128 6 months ago
one of the best movies ever. it still thrills. but there ´s a question left: what does the truck provoke so much ? just being overtaken by someone ?
ltyrson 1 year ago
he wants him dead cos he over took him wtf!!!
rasenshuriken198 1 year ago
I must say that the saddest thing about this movie to me is..., everyone actor/actress in it has passed away...(Frown....!!)
00Daizy00 1 year ago
hell where did these gas stations go? you never hear "can i check under the hood for yah any more!" heck ill start a gas station / burger stop / car show area you know? bring ya back to the 50's
gunny556fly 1 year ago
@gunny556fly
The really shocking thing is the fact the attendant is white.
KiloByte69 1 year ago
@KiloByte69
;( whaddah fuck?
gunny556fly 1 year ago
the guy on the radio phone-in sounds like the guy who played
dustin hoffman's dad in the graduate.. his name's william daniels..
he was also the voice of ' kitt ' in the original knight rider series.. i dont know if its definitely him but it sure sounds like him.
HereWeGoAgain595 1 year ago
A true suspense classic!
CortezInc55 1 year ago
lol truck just jumps in front of him thats like a madea move
JamesPriceJohnson 1 year ago
@JamesPriceJohnson LMAOooooooooooo...., Madea woulda kicked that guys ass too, her way, lol...!!
00Daizy00 1 year ago
my all-time favorite movie
dazcat1959 1 year ago
I like how the attendant just drips gas all over the car!
supreme2005 1 year ago 2
@supreme2005 If you're talking about what he put on the windshield, I don't think it was gas. LOL
tall32guy 1 year ago
I gotta admit Dennis is such a dumb shit in this movie that I actually started rooting for the fuel truck at the end. What kind of a dumb ass disregards a leaking radiator hose while driving through the desert?
fpz2006 1 year ago
I love how the movie jumps right in- theres no sugarcoated crap. It just gets right in- and you didn't even suspect the truck driver. Your waiting for somthing to happen and it is happening! this movie is awesome.
gerzaa9 1 year ago
The truck (or.. one of them, they had two for the production) was sold not long ago to some lucky guy. Imagine having it on your driveway and following your neighbours as they go to work :-).
kamratframjandet 1 year ago
... it's also in alot better shape than it looks, they painted it and covered it with dirt to make it look rusty and old.
kamratframjandet 1 year ago
@kamratframjandet Lmaooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
00Daizy00 1 year ago
that's one scary ass truck
xyomiix 1 year ago
OMG IT LOOKS LIKE A FRIGGIN TRAIN!!
jynyce 1 year ago
Now see, that's why I don't blow my horn at trucks.....this movie is always in the back on my mind whenever I consider it.
MzSunnyJeep 1 year ago
il fait demi tour et il se casse.. ou bien il sort son gun comme tout le monde
TudyLil 1 year ago
Isn't that a Dodge Dart? Now, that's a chick magnet kinda car, that is, dag gum it!
oceansdoor 1 year ago
@oceansdoor
A Plymouth Valiant with a slant six probably, as he does comment on its lack of power. Small by American standards, but about the same size as a Vauxhall Cresta in England.
Glenn1967ful 1 year ago
The 1970s lives!!
dandiacal 1 year ago
That truck reminds me of the car from Jeepers Creepers.
NHLman27 1 year ago 2
On the DVD there is an interview with Steven Spielberg when mentions the license plates on the front of the truck are from the other cars he has destroyed. Spielberg mentions, "The driver wanted to destroy a car in every state."
Toonman93 1 year ago 2
@Toonman93, so he would must have over 50 license plates.
Lucap1000 11 months ago
should get oscar !
johnchannetshow 2 years ago 21
i also like his face when the truck passed him he wanted to pass but then go slow lol so the driver is F U 4wheeler
simp5212 2 years ago
Today this could be filmed on I-95. LOL
jmkpns 2 years ago 13
great movie..i think a remake would be cool..but it wouldn't be as good
the truck is scaryyyyyyyyy though and dennis weaver is such a star in this movie Xd
lfctwentytwo 2 years ago
they did, roadkill..better than this :P
flyersluver4eva 2 years ago
yeah i love that movie!..haha i guess it is kind of a remake.
lfctwentytwo 2 years ago
@flyersluver4eva
Don't forget Joy Ride
samuraiofsamuraiedo 1 year ago
@samuraiofsamuraiedo joyride is roadkill..
flyersluver4eva 1 year ago
@flyersluver4eva
It's still a remake though.
And I haven't even seen, nor do I theink even heard of Road Kill until your post. So as far as I'm concerned, it's a remake of Duel.
samuraiofsamuraiedo 1 year ago
That ain't a Peterbilt! It's the entire Europe over wheels! OmGod, it's sooooo enormous. And so evil and scary. And so freaking cool! I'd love to have one.
1955 281 model... It was a 16 years old truck at the time... but currently is a 55 years old museum masterpiece. I love american vehicles. They're sooo huge, whatever their category.
Great movie! :D
DerAdventurer 2 years ago 4
@DerAdventurer
Buddy, you haven't seen huge until you have seen an Earth Mover.
Those things are like those giant mechs from Star Wars, I'm telling ya.
samuraiofsamuraiedo 1 year ago 2
is that a peterbuilt?????
racingchamp101 2 years ago
You guessed it. It is indeed a Peterbilt. It is a 1955 Peterbilt 281. You are very smart.
1f5sda 2 years ago 4
those trucks are rare.
racingchamp101 2 years ago 2
You are right about that. You may only see those at automotive shows or something like that.
1f5sda 2 years ago
they sure do look scary too <:O
TheCGIMaster 2 years ago
y3s th3y do looks v3ry scary.
racingchamp101 2 years ago
@racingchamp101 yes
fizzdog 2 years ago
great flick. It hasn't aged well, but what move has from the early 70s?
still this is much watch stuff for suspense fans, and anyone appreciates a good eye for cinematography
bottle2lip 2 years ago
not realistic that a truck is so fast...but the truck looks and sounds awesome
hayastan5 2 years ago
The movie is just great if you had 9 vodka and cokes and your buddies couldnt make it tonight.
vivahb1970 2 years ago
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Vodka and coke? Yeeeeech.
Try Rum instead Viv.
Thejbirdy 2 years ago 3
@vivahb1970
Also good if you're high on Oxymorphone. ;)
KiloByte69 1 year ago
2:52 the look in his face is priceless! the best "WTF???" look ever!!!
fsayestaran 2 years ago 2
WHO was the truck driver working for, it looks like truck is just drifting with no where to go
TURBODORK2 2 years ago 3
good question: usually truck drivers are under pressure to get to their destination as fast as possible
hayastan5 2 years ago
yeah.... something like the flying dutch on the road... it gives me the creeps when i think of it
fsayestaran 2 years ago
@TURBODORK2 I've always thought that too. I've come to the conclusion that he likely was out driving around just to find people to attack, like he did to Dennis. ;) Seriously.
tall32guy 1 year ago
I am a truck driver and I sometimes feel like the truck driver in the movie. You drive long hours, you had a bad day, you still have to drive another 5 hours to your destination and you have exhausted every possibility of beating this dead boredom and sleepiness. Suddenly deep in the night some car cuts you off. You say to yourself - I am going to teach him a lesson. I am going to play a little game so my time goes faster-.
harveychupin 2 years ago
but what provoked the truck driver so much ? what did dennis wrong in your opinion ?
hayastan5 2 years ago
Nothing. I think the truck driver was just a ticking time bomb. there is a lot of crazy truck drivers out there who get ticked off by little things in general. They drive long hours and you're always in some kind of danger, so your nerves get little worn out over time. Dennis just passed him, did nothing wrong. You can see how when dennis tried to pass him again, truck started playing with him, had nothing better to do.
harveychupin 2 years ago
so it´s just the classical thing " at the wrong time at the wrong place " ??!!!
hayastan5 2 years ago
Yes, I think that is what Spielberg wanted to show us in the movie. He never showed the face of the driver. It is man against the machine like a robot that goes bezerk and starts killing people. Its funny you see dennis and his demeanor when he's driving before meeting the truck, all relaxed and comfortable like an old lady going to church on sundays until slowly all hell breaks loose and he's running for his life. In every day life this movie doesnt make sense, but it really tells you a lot.
harveychupin 2 years ago
"Dennis Weaver" is an adjective in my family
Novembersandalwood 2 years ago
this movie is brilliant
Novembersandalwood 2 years ago
no, its because weaver has no taste in cars
vivahb1970 2 years ago
And to think the only reason why the guy in the PETERBILT 281 wanted to kill the guy in the red car is all because he passed him.
ToxicDooM96 2 years ago
That wasn't his motive. Yeah, Mann passed him, but so would over 20 million other people, including plenty of America's truckers. Anybody with a schedule and some desire to not stay behind a slow-moving, dirty truck would have passed him. The rig's driver was likely a serial killer, an idea further given credence by the various license plates that the Peterbilt wears that don't belong to it. Mann was just the driver's next target, and in the end his last.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago