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Duel (1971)

Name: Duel
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: action film, road movie, thriller film
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.6

Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Directed by Steven Spielberg · Shot by Jack A. Marta · Cut by Frank Morriss · Music by Billy Goldenberg · 90 min

How it was made

Richard Matheson based the story on being tailgated by a trucker on Highway 126 near Fillmore, California, on 22 November 1963, and prepared to write it by driving the route again with a tape recorder to log everything he saw.
Spielberg insisted on shooting on location against the wishes of the unit production manager, who doubted it could be done on budget; as a compromise, he was given three days on location to prove it was possible.
Principal photography ran 13 days, three over schedule, leaving just ten days for editing before broadcast.
Composer Billy Goldenberg wrote the score in about a week during filming, riding in the stunt tanker truck to get a feel for the material, and scored for strings, harp, keyboards and Moog synthesizer while avoiding brass and woodwinds.

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Duel (Spielberg, 1971) with Dennis Weaver and Jacqueline Scott — Serious Feather · 25 min

Elsewhere

More by Steven Spielberg

Bullitt
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Escape to Nowhere — 1961
Firelight — 1964
Amblin' — 1968
Murder by the Book — 1971
Something Evil — 1972
Watch Dog — 1973
The Sugarland Express — 1974
Jaws — 1975
Close Encounters of the Third Kind — 1977
1941 — 1979
Raiders of the Lost Ark — 1981
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — 1982
Twilight Zone: The Movie — 1983
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — 1984
The Color Purple — 1985
Empire of the Sun — 1987
Always — 1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — 1989
Hook — 1991
Jurassic Park — 1993
Schindler's List — 1993
Amistad — 1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park — 1997
Saving Private Ryan — 1998
The Unfinished Journey — 1999
A.I. Artificial Intelligence — 2001
Minority Report — 2002
Catch Me If You Can — 2003

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