Duel,1971...

A tribute to the best car chase movie of all times...

Plot

David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a middle-aged businessman driving to an appointment in his Plymouth Valiant. On a two-lane highway in the California desert, he encounters a faded and grimy tanker truck, a Peterbilt 281, traveling below the speed limit and expelling thick plumes of diesel exhaust. Mann passes the unsightly truck, which promptly roars past him and slows down. Mann passes the truck a second time and is startled when it issues a long air horn blast.

Mann soon finds himself in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with the truck, which follows him into a gas station and begins tailgating him once the vehicles return to the highway. After Mann allows the truck to overtake his Plymouth, the truck slows down and soon begins blocking Manns path each time he attempts to pass the truck. At one stage the truck driver waves at Mann, indicating that he can overtake, but as he does so he almost collides with an oncoming vehicle. Mann discovers an unpaved turnout next to the highway and uses it to race ahead of the truck. The truck pursues Mann again, this time chasing him at speeds of over 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) down a mountain road and bumping him several times until the Plymouth runs off the road in front of a diner.

Mann enters the diner (Chuck's Cafe) to compose himself. After returning from the mens room, he is shocked to see the truck parked outside the diner. Mann studies the diner patrons carefully and begins an inner monologue in which he contemplates the drivers motives and second guesses his decision to sit helplessly in the diner. Most of the patrons sitting at the bar give Mann the impression of malice, but when one leaves, appearing to approach the tanker, instead drives away in a livestock truck. Mann looks around again, trying to single out a patron, and when he thinks he has, he decides to confront him. However, the tanker's driver had never entered the diner.

Mann leaves Chuck's Cafe and stops to help a stranded school bus. The truck suddenly approaches. Mann panics and flees, but then is puzzled to see the truck helping the bus get moving. At a railroad crossing, the truck quietly approaches Manns car from behind and starts pushing the Valiant towards a passing freight train. The train passes by just in time and Mann crosses the tracks and pulls off the road. The truck passes him by and disappears. Mann stops at Sallys Snakerama Station to call the police, but the truck slams into the phone booth as he tries to make the call. Mann jumps clear just in the nick of time. The truck proceeds to destroy Sallys Snakerama while Mann jumps into his car and speeds off. Mann then hides behind an embankment off the road and sees the truck pass by, apparently without noticing him. After a long wait, Mann hits the road again, but is dumbfounded to see that the truck is waiting for him just around the bend. Inexplicably, the truck eventually allows Mann to pass by, and a high-speed chase begins. Mann races up steep grades, putting some distance between himself and the truck. However, his Valiant begins to overheat, and the truck gains on him. Mann barely makes it over the summit and then coasts down the other side in neutral with the truck bearing down on him.

Mann pulls off onto a dirt road and faces his opponent on a large hill overlooking a canyon. He places his briefcase on the accelerator and drives his vehicle head-on into the truck, leaping from the car at the last second. The driver is unable to stop in time after hitting the car and the truck plunges over the edge of the cliff into the canyon below, completely destroyed. The truck finally beaten, Mann laughs hysterically in triumph, then sits down, exhausted and waits while the sun sets, throwing stones over the cliff as the credits silently appear.

Music: Dagoba, The Crash

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Movie
• Duel
• 1971
• Peterbilt
• Spielberg
• chase
• cars
• plymouth
• cliff

[104bigTruck]

Music blows! Sounds like cookie monster singing. lol

[templedread]

Thanks for the comment!

[nezukichan]

DUEL FTW! \m/ dá-lhe, André, qualquer dia és o dono do Youtube! :D

[templedread]

Obrigado Inês. Vou fazer por isso :D

[nezukichan]

É bom que faças, e depois que te lembres aqui da JE para tua sócia! xD

[templedread]

Eu lembro-me, eu lembro-me |-(... xD

[KG84C]

lose the music

[templedread]

Thanks! I thought that heavy metal was the right music for the chase, since the movie itself is heavy metal. LOL. Cheers!

[TitanicMatthew]

AWESOME~! Thew Music is Kinda Hard LOL But Its Really Great~!