Chasing the Reckless Super Truck Driver (Final Scene) | Duel (1971) | Full Throttle

[@nobodyspecial6436]

I like how the truck and trailer along with the car just went over the cliff and never exploded like 12 times on impact… made the scene so much more lifelike

[@lthastings8800]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Long forgotten art of filming car crashes apparently

[@craigz9590]

100% agree! The car or truck exploding as it goes off a cliff is so cliche and contrived!

[@rustyshacklefordrefined5756]

It would have been somewhat realistic since it’s a tanker, you should have seen what happened in the Cleveland area a few months ago.

[@John-1984]

From what I understand, the studio wanted the truck to explode, but Steven Spielberg absolutely refused. Personal, I like to think it was empty. That would've helped the truck get up to speed a lot faster.

[@manojk2691]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3rLi5djmNt2apI they used toy truck and a mock up cliff, and that was absolutely realistic on screen.

[@donaldthetruthseeker-es3nu]

Love this movie. Could watch it over and over again.

[@666chew]

My dad was an editor on this and he told me to listen when the truck first goes over the cliff as he mixed in an animal roar, bestowing a beastly quality to the semi. Don't think he got any screen credit for it, but that's life in the film industry.

[@JoeyP322]

I heard it !

[@garethparr9482]

And Spielberg used it again in the finale of jaws when the shark blows up as a little nod to duel. One of my favourite films of all time!

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Bruce from Jaws got the same roar after he was blown up in JAWS.

[@mikesilva3868]

😊cool

[@wadestevens5659]

What was your Dad’s name? I’d like to look him up on IMBD. What a cool legacy because that sound became an iconic “death sound” in movie history.

[@sbgoldma]

What an amazing movie!! So simple, and yet so terrifying 😯 One of my favourite movies❤

[@Marko13031303]

I've the movie on dvd, and I still find it amazing!

[@JoelPeters-b8j]

My Father was a truck driver for over 40 years. I remember watching this movie on "the ABC movie of the week " It was Awesome then and still is today! Some of the camera shots were so cool back in the early 70s. Spielberg was a master even at a young age. I love you Pop and miss you!😘

[@Mookaron]

🌹

[@KarimTroost]

Found memory of your father. May he rest in peace.

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

That movie scared me as a little kid so much that I had a complex with trucks. Thank goodness for shows like The Ride Along Gang to ease my anxiety.

[@Marc816]

Carey Loftin, who drove the truck but never appeared onscreen, was said to be the best stunt driver of all times. He also drove in and directed many well known chase scenes, such as the ones in Bullitt and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[@pappapappi9177]

I was intrigued all along the movie..😅 So,so ..

[@failranch9542]

I believe that in some scenes he also drove the car.

[@steveschappell8374]

I feel this a very underrated movie and some people forget that this was Spielberg’s first movie he directed. I think a lot of people think of Jaws first. Dennis Weavers, elation at realizing he won, never fully seeing the truck driver always gave it a sense of mystery. You didn’t need much dialogue as the action spoke for itself. I was terrified right along with the character if it comes on TV or I catch wind of it I like to watch it.

[@claudiotoffoli5355]

I agree it is underrated. People generally mention "Jaws" as his early production and forget Duel. Duel is a classic, a class of filmmaking, never surpassed. As Spielberg himself stated, it was a youth film, he'd probably wouldn't make it being older, and at the same time films as "Schindler" would never be made by a novice director. I simply love this movie. Greetings from Brasil.

[@KarimTroost]

I was a kid when this movie came out. It was filmed only a few miles from our house. It's definitely my favorite out of Tuesday movie of the week series.

[@jonathansmith8672]

What i love about this movie is that it was all filmed near my hometown of Antelope Valley! 😍😍😍☺☺☺

[@rkmklz7562]

The Cliff scene was Great!!!

[@iankravitz5723]

Fun facts: 1. This was Steven Spielberg's first movie he directed. 2. The story was written by Stephen King.

[@STho205]

Story was by Richard Matheson... He wrote I Am Legend (Omega Man) Incredible Shrinking Man Several Twilight Zones Hell House This (story and screenplay) The Night Stalker (original Kolchack movie) Somewhere in Time Along with Born of Man and Woman Button Button What Dreams May Come Shadow on the Sun He was great. This is much like the last part of Shrinking Man when the protagonist finally kills the dragon after running from it for most of the sequence....then is elated and contemplative. That's why Matheson included the Tarantula scene at the reptile and spider museum.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

​@@STho205Thank you so much for the info.

[@justi139]

No it wasn’t. It was a direct to tv movie. And written by Mathewson. But nice try. Do research next time

[@NO-TRUCKS-GIVEN]

​@@justi139what wasn't? No1 or no2?

[@DKS225]

@@NO-TRUCKS-GIVEN Number 2.

[@robertneville2022]

I was a tanker driver for 33 years This is my all time favorite comedy/fantasy movie 😅

[@Grounded75]

Those compartments would have opened up and hit the engine block and poof. I drove tanker and this cracked me up!

[@TimothyMichaels]

What y'all saying, too much movie magic going on here? 😁

[@thejohnboatfaithfishingand8078]

No one had heard of road rage back then. Now, this is almost normal!😁

[@AlmirFagoneGalindo-cp3nv]

Não acredito, porque ignorante e burro sempre existiram ...

[@biakabutooka]

It wasn't road rage but sadistic, malevolence. Dennis Weaver did absolutely nothing to provoke the truck driver. The unexplained evil of the trucker made the film even more interesting.

[@archiebunker7688]

If Spielberg ever did a remake he could have more forethought to end the grungy trucker he would have had the truck descend down the cliff on to a set of railroad tracks and have GE AC 4400 locomotives hauling a mile of freight at notch 8 cream him really good and the last seen is a bloody head rolling in the dirt face down and the scorpions come for dinner up his bloody nose while Dennis Weaver walks up, pulls his zipper down and urinates on the messy scene.😮

[@Heartborne7thSeeker]

Just to clear something out. A lot of people say that there is a production error,because the car seems to be running in Neutral. That is NOT the case,because if you actually watch the full movie(it is here on youtube in good quality)you can see that he shifted it to Neutral the moment he had passed the summit and goes freewheel down the mountain and there is even a signpost that warns of a steep descend so he would have been able to hit 60 with no problem in Neutral. I actually don't think I have seen any production errors in this movie at all.

[@thewillofabeast9079]

Was the engine overheating because he failed to change a hose of sorts and he used the opportunity to cool off the engine by turning it off and having the car move downhill?

[@DrMontague]

It's meant to be taken second degree, it''s simply for entertainment, you can find flaws and unreality in most movies, for example in the Godfather I can rip some scenes apart esp the horse's head in the bed.

[@BillOptional]

watched it with my little brother when it originally aired back in '71 - "ABC Movie of the Week"---it is as I recall...you never see the truck driver's face ( except as maybe on of half a dozen truckers in the cafe ) . A master piece. Very much like a Rod Serling screenplay--you can watch it with the sound off and still know exactly what's happening. Gawd, Dennis Weaver looks so young in this!

[@rickparker8799]

The end seen he used models and a mock up cliff the guy was a genius for 70's film.. the way he used slow motion , camera angle , the lighting etc.. truly a great. And a great movie.. for the times.

[@klamar123]

This is incorrect. The "Duel" finale scene used an actual car and truck for this stunt. The stunt driver notoriously didn't get the door of the rig shut as he jumped out, which is why it's seen open. But Spielberg only had ONE take. On KZbin, there's a miniature FX guy who has recently posted a video (obviously not from 1971) that states they reshot the scene for fun with miniatures as a tribute. (It's in the video description.) I'm not sure how, but people are confusing the real movie with this 2023 homage.

[@PTANV-x2g]

@klamar123 Yep. People are dumb and just believe whatever some idiot tells them. This scene was waaaaay too realistic to have been done with models. This could never be done this believably with models, ESPECIALLY in 1971.

[@johnhenryNC]

It was a real car & truck. Spielberg only had one crack at it.

[@ferozsaudagar5985]

Great Thrill of 1971 with less Technology and originals

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Would be awesome to see the Original Peterbuilt or a Tribute go to the locations. Have they ever found the cliff it went over in final scene ?

[@liamclarke5761]

There is an original truck indeed, you see when this film was released on TV it was so well received that it was to be released in cinemas in Europe but the film had to be over 1 hour and 30 minutes long so in 1972 they went back out into the desert with another identical truck and car to film the extra scenes. The phone call scene at the first fas station, the broken down school bus parked by the tunnel and the railroad crossing scene.

[@normangiron1398]

LOVE. THE. MOVIE. ❤

[@AychelyarimePerez]

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[@didierbordereaux5898]

Pas besoin d'effets techniques extraordinaires pour faire un excellent film fantastique, il suffit que la situation soit .... fantastique.

[@pappapappi9177]

One of the most exciting movies ever 🎉.. even though you only can see one face during the whole film..😊

[@427Vette]

Probably the most famous car 🚗 crash ending ever filmed!!!😮

[@4713Caine]

Rusty Nail's dad. I didn't realize it at the time because I didn't see this earlier, but in Joyride 2 when the Rusty Nail's truck goes over the cliff at the end, was in reference to this scene.

[@danielmartinez3861]

Weaver was super great. One of the first movies with only one actor (Cast Away) that held the story line.

[@huskerjpg]

I remember how much this movie scared me when I saw it as a kid.

[@astein7035]

I remember when I was a kid watching this movie. The truck appeared menacing and possessed! Precursor to Maximum Overdrive. In this movie it was the driver being possessed… road rage! Dennis Weaver’s character had the last laugh! My question is why didn’t the truck blow up?

[@diane1979]

Steven Spielberg didn't like this idea of the truck blowing up he didn't like it so much he felt like it was a cliche two blow stuff up

[@PTANV-x2g]

Most vehicles do not just blow up in crashes, even really bad ones. It was more realistic this way, and still awesome to watch. Making the truck blow up artificially would have detracted from the great cinematography throughout the movie, especially this scene. It was extremely well done.

[@7CharlesV]

​@@diane1979 Maybe the tanker trailer was just empty with no fuel inside? Of course the diesel fuel tanks of the rig itself would likely have split open and spilled it's contents. In which case there could be a fire but no huge TNT-like explosion like the typical car wreck portrayed. Or more likely I'm talking through my hat and trying for a logical conclusion to a terrifying yet absurd movie premise. Although I was waiting and half expecting the truck driver to appear out of the wreck, Terminator-like. I probably should just sit down with an engaging and thought-provoking *real book*.

[@roadglide1142]

I was 6 years old when I saw this. 😮

[@flights47]

Cool flick

[@stevefleming1421]

This is a great movie I saw it in the 70ds when I was a kid

[@SummeyMark]

I've got the movie. I watched it my first time in 1973. It was great.

[@mikesilva3868]

😊love this movie

[@EC-mc7vg]

Love this movie. It is HILARIOUS!!! Been watching it with family for years and laughing our heads off as we rewind and keep playing the funniest scenes over and over. David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is disrespected the entire movie. Great movie.

[@robertmartinez4174]

those locations are in Acton, Piru & Palmdale California.

[@davidroberts6549]

The film's a masterpiece. Everything from the premise, to the ambient music, the edits - not a second wasted, Weaver losing his mind in panic, and the dirtiest, meanest villain you can think of - a petroleum tanker.

[@govideo6706]

Any Insight to why the truck driver door was open during the fall? I guess it gave the Idea that maybe the driver survived till the end Yet not so

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

If McCloud would have gone to his Chevy dealer and bought a 1971 Chevy Z28 Camaro with a 350 4 bbl, he wouldn't be having this problem....

[@SummeyMark]

Rusty Nail 💅 would love this movie 😂

[@doug2349]

Also did anyone else see the truckers door door open at the cliff scene as well? Did he jump out as well?

[@barefootpedaldude7755]

It was an error. I read somewhere that the stunt driver jumped out but the door didn't shut.

[@Crazy_Caleb320]

@@barefootpedaldude7755Right! They tried to used a “Dead-Man’s Clutch” to throw the truck off the cliff but, the day of filming, it wouldn’t work, so Carey Loftin had to drive the truck up to the cliff and needed to jump out at the last second.

[@MichalRamza]

❤ The guy is a dude, hats off to him

[@failranch9542]

I think the unsung hero of the movie was whoever came up with the musical score.

[@Petequinn741]

You'd think there would be a fist fight at the end . Looks like truck driver bailed out

[@PTANV-x2g]

Maybe if the truck driver was Steve Henderson..

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

You can see blood dripping in the cab....🤨

[@Crazy_Caleb320]

@@ADBLOCKER4KZbinThat was actually ment to be oil according to Spielberg, but the filter used on that scene made it appear as blood.

[@qualityman1965]

Where can I see the full movie?

[@alfredokress4936]

Anybody knows why the car is driving in N neutral?

[@alfredokress4936]

Thanks, never having been able to watch the full movie, that was the part I missed

[@paulweber8954]

I noticed that too. 😮

[@alexlorenz4103]

His engine overheated because he needed a new radiator hose.

[@GloucesterODaugherty]

Because you didn’t watch the movie

[@jeprice08]

He shifted it to Neutral the moment he had passed the summit. He believe he did that so he can pick up speed, coasting down the road.

[@jefferypease3920]

Also, if you notice when the truck went over, the driver door was open, so I think the driver jumped out

[@Emmanuel-ms8pr]

On 5:55 He could have possibly died due to that we can clearly some blood on the steering wheel

[@jasoncouchman8629]

Is it blood or hydraulic fluid?​@@Emmanuel-ms8pr

[@Quesadillareallygoodntastylol.]

​@@Emmanuel-ms8prand the door opened when the truck was falling not when it was in land

[@KeijiSuwa]

The door was open because the stunt driver jumped out and didn’t have time to close it. The scene was left that way because the film crew had only one shot to record the car and truck going over the cliff.

[@louiscypher4186]

​@@KeijiSuwa 😂 they used a model there was no driver. There's even a video on you tube of them shooting the stunt.

[@rodneyvoshell9296]

Was the truck driver actually dead at the end?

[@examiningdata7952]

" everyone back in the bus !!! " everyone back in the bus !!!!

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

Back when movies were decent. No CGI. No continuous product placement. Just good entertainment.

[@marknapier8426]

Fun fact:the stunt driver of the truck actually jumped out just b4 it goes over the cliff you can see the driver door open...safety protocols in those days were a bit more relaxed😂

[@Rammshtyn]

You can bet the truck driver wasn't wearing a seat belt.

[@ericdillon1169]

All his victims cars were red. The driver hated the color red and dodge cars.

[@robbhahn8897]

Shades of Star Trek

[@Emmanuel-ms8pr]

I feel like the killer truck represented a bull 😜😜😜😜

[@stevecarpenter3263]

So when the truck goes over the edge of the cliff the drivers door is open. Was this a mistake when filming?

[@kieranwhite6647]

It was because the stunt driver had to jump out at the last second

[@Yadiigar]

Nostalji hisslər ✈️🚀🛫

[@RandomVideosFirst]

‘ there’s someone trying to in danger my life ‘

[@vsevolodozerov8947]

If you have ever driven a car, you understand, that you can never look back turning your head, it is only through the mirror.

[@DrMontague]

Imagine trying to claim for that on you car insurance!

[@RapPereja]

I saw the making of these movie scenes..

[@sanghoonlee5171]

5:54 Is the dark liquid blood from the truck driver or oil from the truck? I think it is left deliberately ambiguous. The color could be either. The vehicle and the driver are one and the same. One's death is the other's.

[@Crazy_Caleb320]

According to Steven Spielberg, it is oil.

[@ka.in.]

And so how did he go back home ?

[@Quesadillareallygoodntastylol.]

Um maybe he called for rescue 👍 maybe he did that and got in some random persons car

[@PTANV-x2g]

He didn’t. He’s still out there sitting on the ledge throwing rocks over the cliff to this day.

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

Uber🤣

[@snodgresswilim4817]

Had to use the one thing the truck couldn't run away from. Gravity.

[@thewillofabeast9079]

This was a great movie. Gotta tell ya, you really feel bad for David here. Nobody believes him in that the guy in the truck is trying to kill him and everybody just thinks David is crazy. The people in the diner, the bus driver. Nobody believes him. Was the guy in the truck trying to kill David all because David overtook him or something? That’s still doesn’t justify him messing with David to the point where he almost kills him.

[@Glenn1967ful]

I wonder how David Mann made his way home and explained the loss of his car to a demented truck driver.

[@alilaldin2708]

It surprises me trucks can actually move this fast. Especially when they have a load behind them.

[@PTANV-x2g]

Well, aside from having some.. some.. some souped up diesel, I think it’s implied that the tanker is empty. Even in ‘71 that was a very old rig, and would not have been in use hauling fuel around. I always filled in the story by assuming the truck driver was a rouge scumbag, cruising his old intimidating truck around looking for victims.

[@awildjared1396]

A lot of it is either sped up footage or camera angles close to the ground, the truck was 16 years old (1955 peterbilt 281) when the movie was shot and they couldn't get it to go faster than 30 or 40 even with the empty trailer, nowadays trucks can go much faster thanks to more powerful engines and transmissions with either more gears or just a wider range of gear ratios.

[@mikeabbasi4551]

Scared the crap out of me as a kid

[@yosimitesam67]

When you are trying to stop your truck from going off a cliff, make sure you honk the horn.

[@roberthaworth8991]

Driver pitched forward and his chest or forearms hit the steering wheel hub.

[@yosimitesam67]

@@roberthaworth8991 It's not on the steering wheel. It's a cable above your left shoulder.

[@robbhahn8897]

I always do

[@baghel6717]

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[@jeffreyhusack2400]

So okay he's blowing the horn as he's going over the cliff with the driver's door open

[@irmasmelo9831]

Nome do filme

[@ChristopherHyde-d1y]

Notice the shifter is in neutral?

[@ardillarojo]

He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot

[@robbhahn8897]

You and 200 others.

[@bigjet5868]

Who's here in 2024

[@vijaykulkarni7325]

Stevan spilburge director no mistake. Done. Vv. Thanks. Duel. See please also. The car.

[@josephward1071]

Who’s driving the Truck

[@stephenolan5539]

You only ever see the hand.

[@mixa37]

truck is scary not gonna lie ths one

[@oscarpinheiro8062]

En faite c'était qui au volant du camion pour en vouloir autant au moustachu ?

[@elainekerslake6865]

Did he lose his no claim bonus😊😊😊

[@jasonervoes1326]

Bye bye bye to that crazy truck driver he did it to himself

[@harryboyes2812]

The most terrifying thing is that we never learn why the truck driver targeted the poor guy in the first place.

[@goa184]

the car gear is in N ( NEUTRAL)

[@AngelAdrian-sk3fy]

Did the truck driver survive action movies, most unsolved mystery

[@doug2349]

Imagine if they made a modern day duel movie with modern day cars and semi trucks

[@robbyaugtel5189]

Well if it was a Tesla car and Tesla big truck it would be a 30 minute movie the battery would run out

[@Bill-q2p]

Yah one with a 25 foot sleeper cab. Chasing a hellcat

[@doug2349]

@@Bill-q2p sounds interesting

[@ronducote8564]

Play the video at 2x speed when the truck and car are going off the cliff.

[@HERWATCH]

QUE SUPER 👍

[@flights47]

They have that rig at truck shows still looks the same

[@PTANV-x2g]

No, someone else recreated it. The one and only original was destroyed in this scene.

[@Crazy_Caleb320]

@@PTANV-x2gYou’re right in the sense that the original was destroyed. In 1972, they needed to add more scenes in order for it to go international, so they got 2 more Trucks and 2 more Trailer to add: The Railroad Crossing Scene, the Broken Down Bus Scene, and the First Gas Station Scene.

[@elijahwambugu8103]

Car at 30km per hour? But speed on screen is supersonic

[@pikachuthebananasplit9061]

Does it feel weird that I don't feel sorry for the truck driver but I do feel sorry for the truck itself? Does that sound weird?

[@robertjohnson6601]

I ran a search engine on youtube. I asked for truckers opinion on the movie duel. None came up. It seems that y outube doesn't let some things appear on youtube. I just wanted to know if truckers thought the driver was out of line like I did. We all have to deal with petty irrations in life, but this was a pyschotic overreaction.

[@robertneville2022]

I was a fuel hauler for 33 years My favorite movie

[@scottkozel1519]

A responsible trucker wouldn't want to damage his equipment and cargo.

[@m9078jk3]

I rooted for the tormented truck driver all the way against that whimpering David Mann and his junker car

[@stevestrange2004]

Did you notice, when they pan to the speedometer, the car is in neutral and not drive!!

[@stephenolan5539]

Didvyou notice he is going downhill? When he wss going uphill his car was slowing down and overheating.

[@dpeasehead]

Those roads looked lonely and desolate in broad daylight.

[@greendrill]

0:23 why does the gear position is in neutral !!!

[@astein7035]

Exactly! Why also was he futzing with the ignition while careening down the road at 60 mph? A few hiccups, but still a good movie!

[@KingKuba1313]

​@@astein7035 Car stalled. He was coasting down hill.

[@ardillarojo]

He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot

[@ardillarojo]

@@astein7035 He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot

[@davidszakacs6888]

Notice the gear selector is on N.

[@stephenolan5539]

Notice he is going downhill. Just hefore this his car wss overheating and sliwing down going uphill.

[@mohamedtaha8241]

Steven Spielberg

[@chrishays4835]

way to go Chester..

[@杉山一芳]

懐かしいですね。ステイーブン　スピルバーグ監督の「激突」ですね。相手の顔は全部見えない。刑事コロンボで監督をした時も同じ様に撮っていましたね。

[@ホヤぼーや-e8f]

人間が本当に恐怖を感じるのは相手がはっきり正体を見せないことだとこの作品で知りました。ジョーズの演出でも効果的に使われていたと思います。

[@anthonymurphy9098]

I'm surprised he didn't holler Mr Dillion Mr Dillion.

[@farhanpratama0285]

Who is drive behind rusty truck.

[@ChloeMarie_414]

3:01 - 3:27 - 3:30 - 3:36 - 3:42 - 5:42 - 5:52 - 6:01

[@mickeyobrien3357]

Bet no one noticed the car was in neutral the whole time the chase was being shown

[@derekcampbell9663]

What is the name of the movie

[@Mg20kadam]

Duel

[@michaelcranstoun8296]

Wonder if that truck is still there?

[@Crazy_Caleb320]

Sadly, it is not. Shortly after filming, they used a crane to remove the wreckage. Though, one of the original filming trucks is still alive to this day and attends truck shows in the North Carolina and South Carolina States.

[@michaelcranstoun8296]

Thanks!