@WeAreTheSHWE: Haha, you're right, but that truck driver is dumb! He could have killed Dennis at the phone and not had to chase him across the desert at 100 mph, just think of much gas he could have saved just by not blasting his horn so much! lol, then again gas probably cost like 50 cents per gallon back then, haha.
@ipodchik I think the truck driver wanted to play with the car driver until the final and fatal moment; so, he didn´t kill him in the phone cab. What do you think?
Shell fuel tanker 40 years late foe delivery hehe..if that rig`s age has anythng to go by LOL its empty must have evaporated away in all that time forgot to shut the filler cap!!!
Okay, I can't help but wonder... why does the truck driver honk the horn everytime he's about to hit something/someone? Like at 1:50 when Dennis was in the phone booth, the only reason he didn't get squashed right there was because truck man honked the horn right before ramming the phone booth!
At 3:51 thats the same exact license plate from Cali. number as well in the 1977 TV movie the Incredible Hulk, when Banner got the flat tire in the toyota..
@elefantboys This, i found myself thanks to Wikipedia. But there is a site for all Duel filming locations starting with the house at the beginning and ending with the canyon, where the truck went down. Search: ''DUEL 1971 - 2010 The Ultimate "Duel" film locations site'' in Google and the third site is the one you seek.
Okay here is a little movie fact that I don't think too many people know about...unless they saw Steven Spielberg's commentary on the making of Duel.
At 0:53 seconds from the moment Dennis Weaver enters the phone booth, till the scene cuts to the view of the truck look at the lower right part of the screen at the reflection in the glass right where the phone is....that's Steven Spielberg in the scene!
This is a truly excellent movie, one of the best I have ever seen. You know, if something like "Trucks" or "Maximum Overdrive" had happened and the Peterbilt really had been driving on its own, this movie would not have happened the same way. A killer truck driving itself would have gotten to the point much faster and just tried to destroy Mann's car from the get-go. That the trucker took so long to unveil his murderous intentions is likely why he lost.
Perhaps. But I look at is as a cat playing with a wounded mouse. The part at the tracks I believe wasn't so much that he wanted to try to kill him, but instill the thought in his head. Hence the get up close to the bumper then rev the engine. He obviously knew it would take some doing to even start pushing the car from a dead stop and going uphill to boot.
Yeah, adding snakes and spiders, possibly dangerous ones, to the already chaotic situation did not brighten Weaver's day one bit. I wouldn't call the woman 'stupid'. She was actually quite nice to Weaver, and she was distressed for a very good reason- the trucker was callously destroying her property and harming her pets. People can obsess over some strange things at moments like that.
Funny. If someone like you talked to someone like me that way at the school I went to, I'd have found you after school and given you a swirlie just for fun.
Don't mock your intellectual betters, friend, it just further highlights your already apparent idiocy. You simply cannot comprehend what I can, so you tell me to 'kick rocks(?)' and ask if I'm a faggot. Cute. Can't you just own up to your own lack of intelligence?
Listen "hear". Wow. You may be unable to do better, but you can certainly do worse. Oh, *I'm* wasting *your* time. Forgive me. But if I remember correctly, *you* started this conversation. YOU did. So if your time really was worth anything, you never would've bothered with your smartass, poorly-written remarks. Stupid people are funny sometimes, but dumb ones like you who think they're smart really get on my nerves sometimes.
You don't think about anything for very long, do you? Got a short attention span, have you? I suppose the less intelligent and generally less fortunate have to have some means of keeping their spirits up. I wish you'd find a better means of doing that than insulting me because I'm smarter, though.
Wow, are you stupid. 'get a life'. Is that really the best you can do? I *have* one, loser, and I'm smarter than your dumb butt will ever be! So show some respect for your betters and run along now, will you? I mean, if you're so dumb and apathetic as you clearly hope to appear, why bother talking to me any more? Yeah, *I* need a life. Ha!
The truck is not to blame. It is not evil, not by default. It was being controlled and used to destructive ends by a very bad person, but machines and tools themselves can't be blamed for what people choose to do with them.
It makes me mad when people like Rosie O'Donnel start saying that guns kill people like it's actually a living organism. It's the person behind the gun. Do accidents happen? Sure. But the same could be said for when kids climb trees. If a kid breaks an arm or leg falling, it doesn't make the tree bad. just makes the kid learn about life.
@Jurassic0Al Exactly, the same point can be adapted for a firearm. They are not evil by default, only the person behind them misusing it. Finally someone enlightened and not sheep to the media. Thumbs Up.
Maybe. But whenever Mann tried to get close, the trucker just drove away. Plus, the cab door was probably locked. And, kind of like tank crewmen, truck drivers are hardly pushovers. In a one to one fight, the trucker would have beaten somebody like Mann easily. The men and their vehicles are much alike- one pair relies on brute force and animal cunning, the other is weak physically and must rely on mental strength instead.
Thank you. I believe that things like books, and movies should not only entertain us, but make us think. I love what if scenarios, and like to look at the deeper, more detailed aspects of things in fiction and non-fiction stories. It takes a more intelligent person to think and come up with all this than one who would simply watch it, say "That was pretty good." and walk away without another thought.
Steven Spielberg is one of the world's best directors...his films...''E.T, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Duel......and others are all classics in my opinion....my favourite 2 of 'Spielberg's films are ''Jaws...and ''Duel'' which are both huge films.
Poor guy! Dennis Weaver is good in this film. I Love everything about this movie..the chases are cool and believable also the truck is scary. One of Spielberg's best films!! 10/10
The main Peterbilt used in filming was destroyed at the end- when they filmed a rig plunging off a cliff to its doom, they really were filming a rig plunging off a cliff to its doom. The driver wasn't actually in it, of course, or that would have been the end of Carey Loftin's career along with that of the deranged trucker he played.
Righto. #3 was for photo ops, and I don't know what #2 was for. Isn't there supposed to be a fourth one that was in some other movie? Most sinister movie car ever.
That sounds about right. I understand that when some scenes were filmed after the destruction of the rig, they actually had to buy another one to use for those scenes because the first was destroyed. The one with the stalled school bus is an example of that. That was filmed later, so another rig was needed. The most sinister movie car ever? No. Truck? Yes. For cars, I'd rate Christine, the '57 of Black Cadillac and the demon car in "The Car" top three.
I've often wondered why such an evil truck would stop to help a stalled school bus. He's busy trying to murder an accountant- what does he care what happens to those kids? But, he stops to help, probably giving those children the chance to see the driver up close that we never got. Also, the rig recognizes the camaraderie shared between trains and 18-wheelers, exchanging salutes by air horn at least two times. Curious, and interesting.
Most serial killers or murderers usually try to keep up a sense of normalcy when other people are around...that way it only becomes the victims word over his.
That's why he didn't run him down at Chuck's Cafe, or in front of a school bus.
The snake lady only had one phone so she wasn't a problem.
Or it could be a peculiar sense of self-righteousness...after all none of them passed him, Dennis Weaver did. Who knows how a psychotic's mind works?
That's a superbly written comment- all the points you make in it are good ones. Being nice at appropriate times made Weaver look crazy and the trucker normal, which kept the highway patrol from zooming in on him. It's possible that a warped sense of self-righteousness was the cause for his attack. It might also have been a trap- he might drive that slow on purpose, attacking the first to pass him. We don't know if anybody passed the rig when it was going slow before Weaver or not.
Another possibility is that the driver was simply a killer with a twisted mind, with no real motive at all. As is pointed out in Dark Knight, "Some men just want to watch the world burn". If the truck driver had any similarity to the Joker, he had no plan whatsoever. He just... did things. Of course, the trucker probably knew very well what to do with Weaver if he'd caught him- he intended to kill him, as was made very clear by the end of the movie.
Lady forget the fucking snakes! There's a crazy truck driver barreling around your station!
Oh man, just when that guy thought the truck was bad enough, now he has to deal with a rattler and a tarantula too! LOL!
What I never got was why didn't he just turn around and go the fuck home?! I mean that meeting can't be that fucking important! Honey the account is a matter of life and death....NO SHIT!
:53-:57...Did anyone else notice the reflection of a person in the phone booth glass window? (bottom right hand corner). Look close. He's wearing a white shirt with black designs in them. Know who it is? I'll give you a hint...What do the movies Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Color Purple, and E.T. all have in common?
Well, the good news on that is that the trucker who caused her so much suffering met a very well-deserved fate not long after. Its possible that Mann saw her again, once he began the walk back after he finished throwing stones at the truck. Still, the death of the man responsible doesn't make the destruction of her property or the death of some of the woman's pets any less upsetting.
@ElectricShark I feel the same way. I guess her spider survived too. Poor babies. I know how I'd feel if someone did something like that to my cats...when I had cats. HORRIBLE. What a psycho.
Assuming that--as the "label" on the back suggests--the trailer that the truck is hauling actually is loaded with flammable contents, I might have tried--resources permitting--lighting a match or something and throwing or dropping it on the trailer.
whats lighting a match going to do? The flammable suff is protected by a mass metal container which is thick. You could wave a flame thrower over it for half hout and itle do jack lol
CarpMagic95: There is no flammable stuff in the tanker. It's empty. That's why the truck was able to achieve those speeds so quickly and, most obviously, why the tanker didn't explode or burst into flames when it went off that cliff at the end of the movie.
If this film were made in [roughtly] this generation, destroying a phone booth would not have any effect whatsoever unless the trucker somehow ran over the guy's cell phone. That works in older films like this, however, because cellular phones did not exist when this came out. I have to admit that it was a tad predictable, however.
um dude its a 40 foot long peterbuilt goin about 50 k an hour that weighs like 30 tons try jumpin on that its like a 1 in 100 chance he would actually make it on
i agree, devildoll1212, all these rejects taking the trucker's side. nevermind the innocent, lovable main character. no, lets love the dude who tries to kill him! oh well. whatever you want, i guess!
Even though this movie is suspense... I think it's absolutely hilarious! I love it mostly because of the diner scene, this scene and the scene with the 2 old ppl on the road when the lady yells out "JIM"... Classic!
naw, the whole makeup is the fact david mann is a university professor out on vacation, and the trucker is a former student who never graduated because David gave him failing grades
man thats why when you travel though the desert you need knives or guns,i would have fucked that truck drive up with some big guns,and no one will hear the gun fire.
it's weird the truck driver chases the guy and tries too kill him, but he helps out the bus, by pushing it then he honks his horn at the train and he must have been nice, so why is he chasing weaver
The truck driver acting nice to the others was just a show so that they will think Weaver is crazy. e.g. "What is this guy talking about, this truck driver would never harm us". So noone is on Weaver's side, he is alone.
so true. its not there and nor is the bit with truck pushing the school bus. those are the two best scenes and they are not in this version. thats fucked up.
Yeah, the diner scene is sooooo intense; all the locals staring at Weaver and wondering what his problem is. And, the guy at the end of the counter; looking back at Weaver, and sipping a glass of beer. First time I ever saw this movie, I thought that HE was the truck driver!
So where was it seriously, where was the diner scene? Maybe I missed it I was fast-forwarding threw all the parts trying to find it. That was my favorite scene. He wants a Rye sandwich, R-Y-E. And when he told the guy to just cut it out, "you just cut it out ok." I'm laughing just thinking about it.
Man, that Plymouth sure can take a beating....
MrCartman2578 3 weeks ago
when the truck hits the phone booth is kinda like on the matrix. i think it was inspired by this
29iceskater 1 month ago
2:58, the music is like from the movie Psycho
Harmaja87 3 months ago
Why did he break my cages up??? Poor old lady.
Toni7859 3 months ago
holy shit that truck driver is not fucking around
kalinga01 4 months ago
Ma snakes, ive gotta find ma snakes.....lol
fustyans 6 months ago 4
keren
MrZyrro 7 months ago
I didn´t trust it from the moment he started the truck
WarningSign1000 7 months ago
@WeAreTheSHWE: Haha, you're right, but that truck driver is dumb! He could have killed Dennis at the phone and not had to chase him across the desert at 100 mph, just think of much gas he could have saved just by not blasting his horn so much! lol, then again gas probably cost like 50 cents per gallon back then, haha.
ipodchik 7 months ago 9
@ipodchik I think the truck driver wanted to play with the car driver until the final and fatal moment; so, he didn´t kill him in the phone cab. What do you think?
clodoalzer 3 months ago
@george85v All the wires are underground.
WeAreTheSHWE 7 months ago
Shell fuel tanker 40 years late foe delivery hehe..if that rig`s age has anythng to go by LOL its empty must have evaporated away in all that time forgot to shut the filler cap!!!
Bignadim 7 months ago
Okay, I can't help but wonder... why does the truck driver honk the horn everytime he's about to hit something/someone? Like at 1:50 when Dennis was in the phone booth, the only reason he didn't get squashed right there was because truck man honked the horn right before ramming the phone booth!
ipodchik 8 months ago
@ipodchik Because a. The movie would end too soon and b. you're always supposed to do that when you're trying to kill someone with a truck.
WeAreTheSHWE 7 months ago
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why he did not have an idea to return home?
rockrabbitt 8 months ago
AM only radio in that Valiant also notice the phone booth at the woman's station has no wires connected to it
george85v 8 months ago
At 3:51 thats the same exact license plate from Cali. number as well in the 1977 TV movie the Incredible Hulk, when Banner got the flat tire in the toyota..
ccg1171 9 months ago
Hahahaha! That truck driver is fucking batshit crazy! HOLY COW! Did you see him running amok through that old lady's service station? WOW!
SLBON 10 months ago
Evil wins BATTLES. Good wins WARS.......and that war ended when the truck went off the cliff.
INTIMIDATOR3FAN 11 months ago
Satan sure knows how to drive a truck!
INTIMIDATOR3FAN 11 months ago 3
@INTIMIDATOR3FAN LOL! No shit!
livendapast 9 months ago
he should have thrown that rattlesnake in the truck's cabin and not the window, LOL
e16able 11 months ago
2:43, "THAT'S THE ONLY PHONE I GOT!!!!"
XD sounds like a pissed black chick!
kingpimpbob 1 year ago 2
1:55 dropping your call like a boss muthafucka!!!
kingpimpbob 1 year ago
Lol that truck is trying to kill him and all that old lady cares about are her damn snakes!
Shadowcretin 1 year ago
2:37! lol he throws a tank at the truck!! YEAH RIGHT! like that gunna do oat lol
aw08aw 1 year ago
Tight film editing. Classic.
janusmartino 1 year ago
HOLY SH -- !!!!
MVR326 1 year ago
from this movie im starting to think that the early 70s plymouth valiant were invincible and never even so much as got dusty
able506 1 year ago
All the crap that car went through and not a scratch on it! I want one of those!
jawsrock1 1 year ago
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unbelievable that the director of this movie was just 24..
Casarzino 1 year ago
Coordinates for the waiting spot in Google Earth 34.438447,-118.238661
laurigun1 1 year ago
@laurigun1 wow howd you find that out?
elefantboys 1 year ago
@elefantboys This, i found myself thanks to Wikipedia. But there is a site for all Duel filming locations starting with the house at the beginning and ending with the canyon, where the truck went down. Search: ''DUEL 1971 - 2010 The Ultimate "Duel" film locations site'' in Google and the third site is the one you seek.
laurigun1 1 year ago
poor women :/
wendyblue7 1 year ago
@wendyblue7 Yeah I know, I always felt bad for her. Her snakes and spiders and her livelihood went off to be in their native habitat. hehe!
tall32guy 3 months ago
the 70's rule for cult movies!! Race with the Devil is another great one!!!
duufus69 1 year ago
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wendyblue7 1 year ago
9821 lol 4 digest
MasterJericho85 1 year ago
Jeez, this guy frikin pshyco!
kitt5804 1 year ago
that's the woman from Silver Streak
addycorp2 1 year ago
Okay here is a little movie fact that I don't think too many people know about...unless they saw Steven Spielberg's commentary on the making of Duel.
At 0:53 seconds from the moment Dennis Weaver enters the phone booth, till the scene cuts to the view of the truck look at the lower right part of the screen at the reflection in the glass right where the phone is....that's Steven Spielberg in the scene!
darthroden 1 year ago
Did they really kill the snakes and stuff? Being a reptile owner myself, it would be messed up if they did. No haters respond to this -.-
Yoshi4d 1 year ago 2
@Yoshi4d That's what I'd like to know as well. Won't see Snakes on a plane for that very reason.
As you can see in my username, I'm a turtle lover.
StellaCheloniaPolari 1 year ago
This movie was made in 1971. Not many women knew how to check the oil in those days, lol.
countrysinger1952 1 year ago
That's one tough Valiant.
THB79 1 year ago
The dogs like "Jesus Christ! Someone UNTIE ME!
tomahawk368 1 year ago
@tomahawk368 That's a coyote, isn't it?
countrysinger1952 1 year ago
@tomahawk368 It's better that she was left tied up because she probably would have gotten run over by the wacko! LOL
tall32guy 3 months ago
he needs to move. cant sit still while he looks for you.
paintballkiller54 1 year ago
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61vanilla 1 year ago
awsome video
ber31952 1 year ago 2
wish some one would put this part on witth the orgional sound track,the caterpillar starting is awsome
dalekrueger 2 years ago
This is a truly excellent movie, one of the best I have ever seen. You know, if something like "Trucks" or "Maximum Overdrive" had happened and the Peterbilt really had been driving on its own, this movie would not have happened the same way. A killer truck driving itself would have gotten to the point much faster and just tried to destroy Mann's car from the get-go. That the trucker took so long to unveil his murderous intentions is likely why he lost.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
i cant beleive that that twat jfool289 started on you he would be fucked if he started on people like you or me in real life
ber31952 1 year ago
Hooah to that, friend.
Jurassic0Al 1 year ago
@Jurassic0Al
Perhaps. But I look at is as a cat playing with a wounded mouse. The part at the tracks I believe wasn't so much that he wanted to try to kill him, but instill the thought in his head. Hence the get up close to the bumper then rev the engine. He obviously knew it would take some doing to even start pushing the car from a dead stop and going uphill to boot.
samuraiofsamuraiedo 1 year ago
@samuraiofsamuraiedo- Good point. I agree.
Jurassic0Al 1 year ago
I swear its bad enough the truck driver is trying to kill him, but now he has to deal with snakes and spiders?!
And that stupid woman screaming about her snakes always makes me laugh. Screw the snakes lady, that guy was trying to kill the other guy!
darthroden 2 years ago
Yeah, adding snakes and spiders, possibly dangerous ones, to the already chaotic situation did not brighten Weaver's day one bit. I wouldn't call the woman 'stupid'. She was actually quite nice to Weaver, and she was distressed for a very good reason- the trucker was callously destroying her property and harming her pets. People can obsess over some strange things at moments like that.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
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Look dude, or maby chick, get or go kick rocks or some shit, wtf r u a fag
jfool289 2 years ago
Funny. If someone like you talked to someone like me that way at the school I went to, I'd have found you after school and given you a swirlie just for fun.
Don't mock your intellectual betters, friend, it just further highlights your already apparent idiocy. You simply cannot comprehend what I can, so you tell me to 'kick rocks(?)' and ask if I'm a faggot. Cute. Can't you just own up to your own lack of intelligence?
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
listen hear dipshit, thats not the best i can do, i just dont waste my time like your lame ass, so stfu and get a life other then the internet
jfool289 2 years ago
Listen "hear". Wow. You may be unable to do better, but you can certainly do worse. Oh, *I'm* wasting *your* time. Forgive me. But if I remember correctly, *you* started this conversation. YOU did. So if your time really was worth anything, you never would've bothered with your smartass, poorly-written remarks. Stupid people are funny sometimes, but dumb ones like you who think they're smart really get on my nerves sometimes.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
You don't think about anything for very long, do you? Got a short attention span, have you? I suppose the less intelligent and generally less fortunate have to have some means of keeping their spirits up. I wish you'd find a better means of doing that than insulting me because I'm smarter, though.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago 2
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yea what ever, get a life
jfool289 2 years ago
Wow, are you stupid. 'get a life'. Is that really the best you can do? I *have* one, loser, and I'm smarter than your dumb butt will ever be! So show some respect for your betters and run along now, will you? I mean, if you're so dumb and apathetic as you clearly hope to appear, why bother talking to me any more? Yeah, *I* need a life. Ha!
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
That trucker was MAD!
evilunixuser1 2 years ago 2
the driver... god.
or the opposite.
TheCeliacVoid 2 years ago
Is it just me or does Dennis have a cute butt? 2:40
CHRISTINAMCC1 2 years ago
@CHRISTINAMCC1 It ain't that big but I guess it's cute. ;) hehehe
tall32guy 3 months ago
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CHRISTINAMCC1 2 years ago
The truck that guy seems to have come from hell
thiagoroberto83 2 years ago
The truck is not to blame. It is not evil, not by default. It was being controlled and used to destructive ends by a very bad person, but machines and tools themselves can't be blamed for what people choose to do with them.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago 16
@Jurassic0Al
I wholeheartedly agree with you on that one.
It makes me mad when people like Rosie O'Donnel start saying that guns kill people like it's actually a living organism. It's the person behind the gun. Do accidents happen? Sure. But the same could be said for when kids climb trees. If a kid breaks an arm or leg falling, it doesn't make the tree bad. just makes the kid learn about life.
samuraiofsamuraiedo 1 year ago 2
@Jurassic0Al Exactly, the same point can be adapted for a firearm. They are not evil by default, only the person behind them misusing it. Finally someone enlightened and not sheep to the media. Thumbs Up.
739199 8 months ago
Haahahha i agree the truck
181RUNESCAPE 2 years ago
I would have just gone up to the lorry, dragged the driver out, threw him to the ground and beat the living shit out of him.
TheRationalRant 2 years ago
Maybe. But whenever Mann tried to get close, the trucker just drove away. Plus, the cab door was probably locked. And, kind of like tank crewmen, truck drivers are hardly pushovers. In a one to one fight, the trucker would have beaten somebody like Mann easily. The men and their vehicles are much alike- one pair relies on brute force and animal cunning, the other is weak physically and must rely on mental strength instead.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago 2
Absolutely, very well thought out.
darthroden 2 years ago
Thank you. I believe that things like books, and movies should not only entertain us, but make us think. I love what if scenarios, and like to look at the deeper, more detailed aspects of things in fiction and non-fiction stories. It takes a more intelligent person to think and come up with all this than one who would simply watch it, say "That was pretty good." and walk away without another thought.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
Dude, you have way too much time on your hands.
jfool289 2 years ago
No, I'm just *way* smarter than you are. If you could read faster than one word every ten minutes, you probably could have written everything I did.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
Steven Spielberg is one of the world's best directors...his films...''E.T, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Duel......and others are all classics in my opinion....my favourite 2 of 'Spielberg's films are ''Jaws...and ''Duel'' which are both huge films.
MrSteven2K9 2 years ago 2
Poor guy! Dennis Weaver is good in this film. I Love everything about this movie..the chases are cool and believable also the truck is scary. One of Spielberg's best films!! 10/10
MrSteven2K9 2 years ago
Wow, talk about a bad day..D
americastan 2 years ago
im pretty sure someone is selling this truck unless someone bought it
biglandon5 2 years ago
Yeah, I saw one for auction today, it's supposed to be #3. It lives on to scare whoever drives a prius.
mikeb1444 2 years ago 2
The main Peterbilt used in filming was destroyed at the end- when they filmed a rig plunging off a cliff to its doom, they really were filming a rig plunging off a cliff to its doom. The driver wasn't actually in it, of course, or that would have been the end of Carey Loftin's career along with that of the deranged trucker he played.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
Righto. #3 was for photo ops, and I don't know what #2 was for. Isn't there supposed to be a fourth one that was in some other movie? Most sinister movie car ever.
mikeb1444 2 years ago
That sounds about right. I understand that when some scenes were filmed after the destruction of the rig, they actually had to buy another one to use for those scenes because the first was destroyed. The one with the stalled school bus is an example of that. That was filmed later, so another rig was needed. The most sinister movie car ever? No. Truck? Yes. For cars, I'd rate Christine, the '57 of Black Cadillac and the demon car in "The Car" top three.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
I thought about Christine, but I used to know a Christine and the very thought of it made me shiver and feel like i had never been happy before.
mikeb1444 2 years ago
I've often wondered why such an evil truck would stop to help a stalled school bus. He's busy trying to murder an accountant- what does he care what happens to those kids? But, he stops to help, probably giving those children the chance to see the driver up close that we never got. Also, the rig recognizes the camaraderie shared between trains and 18-wheelers, exchanging salutes by air horn at least two times. Curious, and interesting.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
Most serial killers or murderers usually try to keep up a sense of normalcy when other people are around...that way it only becomes the victims word over his.
That's why he didn't run him down at Chuck's Cafe, or in front of a school bus.
The snake lady only had one phone so she wasn't a problem.
Or it could be a peculiar sense of self-righteousness...after all none of them passed him, Dennis Weaver did. Who knows how a psychotic's mind works?
darthroden 2 years ago
That's a superbly written comment- all the points you make in it are good ones. Being nice at appropriate times made Weaver look crazy and the trucker normal, which kept the highway patrol from zooming in on him. It's possible that a warped sense of self-righteousness was the cause for his attack. It might also have been a trap- he might drive that slow on purpose, attacking the first to pass him. We don't know if anybody passed the rig when it was going slow before Weaver or not.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
Another possibility is that the driver was simply a killer with a twisted mind, with no real motive at all. As is pointed out in Dark Knight, "Some men just want to watch the world burn". If the truck driver had any similarity to the Joker, he had no plan whatsoever. He just... did things. Of course, the trucker probably knew very well what to do with Weaver if he'd caught him- he intended to kill him, as was made very clear by the end of the movie.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
it was sold
dueltruckman 2 years ago
someone bought it
dueltruckman 2 years ago
Lady forget the fucking snakes! There's a crazy truck driver barreling around your station!
Oh man, just when that guy thought the truck was bad enough, now he has to deal with a rattler and a tarantula too! LOL!
What I never got was why didn't he just turn around and go the fuck home?! I mean that meeting can't be that fucking important! Honey the account is a matter of life and death....NO SHIT!
darthroden 2 years ago 2
:53-:57...Did anyone else notice the reflection of a person in the phone booth glass window? (bottom right hand corner). Look close. He's wearing a white shirt with black designs in them. Know who it is? I'll give you a hint...What do the movies Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Color Purple, and E.T. all have in common?
TheTallMan35 2 years ago
Poor guy! And That poor woman. :(
It sucks to see all your pets killed in front of you like that!
That's pretty fucked up!
I'm relieved to see that one snake at 2:21 survived the encounter though!
And her iguana lived too,
ElectricShark 2 years ago 18
Well, the good news on that is that the trucker who caused her so much suffering met a very well-deserved fate not long after. Its possible that Mann saw her again, once he began the walk back after he finished throwing stones at the truck. Still, the death of the man responsible doesn't make the destruction of her property or the death of some of the woman's pets any less upsetting.
Jurassic0Al 2 years ago
@ElectricShark The coyote survived too.
fireman6710 1 year ago
@ElectricShark you forgot the spider
jorasave 8 months ago
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@ElectricShark so did her dog
PANZERMEISTER100 7 months ago
@ElectricShark I feel the same way. I guess her spider survived too. Poor babies. I know how I'd feel if someone did something like that to my cats...when I had cats. HORRIBLE. What a psycho.
blanchefful 5 months ago
I get the poster now (see my comment on Part 2): he LOSES his glasses.
Snyarhedir 2 years ago
Assuming that--as the "label" on the back suggests--the trailer that the truck is hauling actually is loaded with flammable contents, I might have tried--resources permitting--lighting a match or something and throwing or dropping it on the trailer.
Snyarhedir 2 years ago
whats lighting a match going to do? The flammable suff is protected by a mass metal container which is thick. You could wave a flame thrower over it for half hout and itle do jack lol
CarpMagic95 2 years ago 2
CarpMagic95: There is no flammable stuff in the tanker. It's empty. That's why the truck was able to achieve those speeds so quickly and, most obviously, why the tanker didn't explode or burst into flames when it went off that cliff at the end of the movie.
TheTallMan35 2 years ago 2
If this film were made in [roughtly] this generation, destroying a phone booth would not have any effect whatsoever unless the trucker somehow ran over the guy's cell phone. That works in older films like this, however, because cellular phones did not exist when this came out. I have to admit that it was a tad predictable, however.
Snyarhedir 2 years ago
This is absolutely the most frightening part. When the driver goes after him in the phone booth (and keeps coming and coming).....
Dennis Weaver does a terrific job.
That truck is both ominous and scary.
AstralPixie 2 years ago 2
man they should have made more scenes like this in the movie cause this is like the best scene with that truck
ThatHaloNerd117 2 years ago
why doesn't he just jump onto the truck?
WNxRadeon 2 years ago
um dude its a 40 foot long peterbuilt goin about 50 k an hour that weighs like 30 tons try jumpin on that its like a 1 in 100 chance he would actually make it on
ThatHaloNerd117 2 years ago
notice when you see him pussy running back to his car he runs past the trucks battery box O_O
ThatHaloNerd117 2 years ago
what an evil sonovabitch!
CrackerJackLee 2 years ago
u see spielberg refecltion in the booth if you look closly
grundy901 2 years ago
lol. i see him.
rustynail1o2 2 years ago
I cant see him... What point in the clip should I be looking at?
ragemanchoo82 2 years ago
from 0:54 to untill the truck hits the booth
rustynail1o2 2 years ago
Which part of the booth is he reflecting in? I can't quite see :(
ragemanchoo82 2 years ago
i love how he throws the cage at the pete at 2:37
ThatHaloNerd117 2 years ago
This is some scary stuff!
drlee2 2 years ago
Umm, nice telephone booth. How does it work with no telephone wires?
jnorrett 2 years ago
Underground wires? *shrug*
ragemanchoo82 2 years ago
so very hitchcock
fastizzio 2 years ago
mad truck
ernestpresley 2 years ago
the best scenne in the movie, but poor woman :(
PhilipHuertas 2 years ago 6
@PhilipHuertas I feel sorry for the woman, too, but I don't like snakes.
countrysinger1952 1 year ago
holy crap
the old woman at the gas station is the same woman from silver streak!
"bye steve!"
sighchicken 2 years ago 3
"It's GEORGE!!!"
h2opolodan11 2 years ago
i agree, devildoll1212, all these rejects taking the trucker's side. nevermind the innocent, lovable main character. no, lets love the dude who tries to kill him! oh well. whatever you want, i guess!
retrogirl19 2 years ago
I love how all the wanna-be rebels on this thread think it's cool to take the side of the trucker.
devildoll1212 2 years ago 3
Even though this movie is suspense... I think it's absolutely hilarious! I love it mostly because of the diner scene, this scene and the scene with the 2 old ppl on the road when the lady yells out "JIM"... Classic!
tip862 2 years ago
MAH SNAAAAAKES!!!
LMAO
kylewp 2 years ago 2
lol
dpisceslady 2 years ago
now I realize , where the inspiration for drive carring a gun comes...
triunp 2 years ago
i love it at 1: 56.
stoereklekstroon 2 years ago
David Mann brought all this on himself.
He pissed off the truck driver too many times.
cas447 2 years ago
1:52-1:55.......close call
01tnql 2 years ago
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cas447 2 years ago
yeah, gotta agree - david had it all coming to him
evilunixuser1 2 years ago
uh oh, the lady never put in a radiator hose did she O.o?
herbienbrian 2 years ago
no she never replaced the old ones
mechajason 2 years ago
oh, still sucks for him. Glad the guy in the orange plymouth won though!
herbienbrian 2 years ago
truck driver - crazy bastard
evilunixuser1 2 years ago 2
Poor Dennis!
ElijahsArt 2 years ago 3
i bet the truck driver is the guys mother in law lol
manzrnet 2 years ago
naw, the whole makeup is the fact david mann is a university professor out on vacation, and the trucker is a former student who never graduated because David gave him failing grades
evilunixuser1 2 years ago
seriously, go trucker
mechajason 2 years ago
so glad we have cell phones now
swordmaster373 2 years ago 3
except u need a signal
mechajason 2 years ago
You have a crazy driver in a tanker truck circling your ass and your running around yelling my snake my snake...pots.
countdown2xstacy 3 years ago 2
man thats why when you travel though the desert you need knives or guns,i would have fucked that truck drive up with some big guns,and no one will hear the gun fire.
k5lta 3 years ago 2
it's weird the truck driver chases the guy and tries too kill him, but he helps out the bus, by pushing it then he honks his horn at the train and he must have been nice, so why is he chasing weaver
mechajason 3 years ago
The truck driver acting nice to the others was just a show so that they will think Weaver is crazy. e.g. "What is this guy talking about, this truck driver would never harm us". So noone is on Weaver's side, he is alone.
orkavorn 2 years ago 6
i need some gas,radiator hose,sniper rifle..will that be all ... yes thats all lmao
eze14213 3 years ago
He's jealous of Weaver's moustache! The guy in the truck is some kid that can only get stubble.... Lol
jonnyhboy94 3 years ago 2
2:35. Wow thats really showing him.
icefiredarksector748 3 years ago
On my DVD Spielberg/crew are visible in reflection of phone booth but I don't see it here...
wrangleyou 3 years ago
2:00, not the snakes! Not the poor innocent snakes! (lol)
corobeuin 3 years ago 4
so true. its not there and nor is the bit with truck pushing the school bus. those are the two best scenes and they are not in this version. thats fucked up.
phish100123 3 years ago
OK....where's the diner scene? R-Y-E :(
littletugartbug 3 years ago 3
Yeah, the diner scene is sooooo intense; all the locals staring at Weaver and wondering what his problem is. And, the guy at the end of the counter; looking back at Weaver, and sipping a glass of beer. First time I ever saw this movie, I thought that HE was the truck driver!
gazork123 3 years ago 2
So where was it seriously, where was the diner scene? Maybe I missed it I was fast-forwarding threw all the parts trying to find it. That was my favorite scene. He wants a Rye sandwich, R-Y-E. And when he told the guy to just cut it out, "you just cut it out ok." I'm laughing just thinking about it.
littletugartbug 3 years ago
Me too!
Fania54 3 years ago
Where s the part with the truck in the tunnel, and the bus ..??
1Megool111 3 years ago
Not part of the original movie anyway, as shown on TV. Different truck for those added scenes, as was the railway crossing.
rct220 3 years ago
I agree. Those scenes were crucial. Still, I'm glad at least someone has uploaded these. I haven't seen this in 14 years.
DestinedJedi87 3 years ago