Duel 1971 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

Duel (1971)
TV Movie - 90 min - Drama | Horror | Mystery
7.7 Your rating: -/10 Ratings: 7.7/10 from 29,412 users
Reviews: 261 user | 93 critic
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Richard Matheson (screenplay), Richard Matheson (story)
Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott and Eddie Firestone
www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/

[@gregorymetzidakis4982]

An excellent movie to say the least! I saw Duel on TV back in the fall of 1990 and I'll tell you I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Kudos to Steven Spielberg for his genius directing. Dennis Weaver was also a great actor along with the truck driver William Carey Loftin, who is arguably one of the greatest stunt drivers in the history of Hollywood. His career spanned over 60 years!!

[@88mphsss]

Dunno why this opening scene is so fascinating to me. If it weren't a TV movie this would be studied as one of the greatest film scenes ever!

[@Glenn1967ful]

It's to show you how Mann leaves behind his suburban home, his family and the relative safety of his suburban life to face an unknown enemy in the desert. In England these travelling salesmen were called sales reps and drove mundane, company owned vehicles like Mann in his Plymouth.

[@FirstMultitude]

In reality this opening sequence was added to the film version that was later released overseas, so the TV movie didn't even have it. They put it in to help bring the film closer to feature length.

[@LukeKetchum7003]

Fun Fact: This was the very first movie to be directed by the legendary Steven Spielberg. Now look at his filmography. He's created his own empire.

[@mikeowen7526]

The intro music and David manns footsteps set this film off a treat ❤❤❤❤

[@Glenn1967ful]

Notice how Mann leaves a congested LA and how the traffic thins out to almost nil as he hits the desert and this is where the fun begins with the truck. Also the radio reception fading away is a sign he's heading into the unknown and by the final scenes it's him and the truck with no one to help.

[@mariano1386]

Glenn Cumbria very clever observation

[@EphemeralProductions]

I wish to God that there were totally deserted areas like that around big cities like LA, these days! LOL Too MANY people now.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@mariano1386 Yes it goes from Mann leaving his nice, safe house in the suburbs to the desert with almost no traffic where the trucker can do what he wants. Also in the scene where Mann has his first chase with the tanker, the radio is playing some sickly, inane muzak that is totally at odds with the terror Mann is facing.

[@shea2221]

Steven Spielberg is the genius behind this movie - - in 1971 he was just starting out and really not known until 1975 when jaws almost got pulled out of production but miraculously became a blockbuster head and launched Spielberg career

[@MCO18]

Great film from Spielberg’s early career

[@ArthurHILL-xp8bv]

Duel movie in November 13,1971 in the opening credits starting Dennis Weaver as David Mann. And the Duel truck semi gallon driver is Carey Loftin.

[@mikeowen7526]

I noticed when i bought the dvd some of the original background sound effects were replaced with new ones Grrrrr I wish when films are rereleased they leave the original sounds in Its authentic❤😊

[@ernestsanchez5159]

I am not sure if anyone else noticed. But when he gets to the newhall pass and takes the 14 freeway, you can see off to the left a damaged bridge from the sylmar earthquake in 1971.

[@Ayaki6166]

I love Duel from child.opening is special love.I lives Los Angeles now.

[@harveymushman2219]

RIP Shelley Berman call....never forgotten opening scene.....and that area now has jammed traffic all the way to Alaska now..

[@Mrpallekuling]

Wonderful and simple opening of this movie. I saw it as a boy in the cinema, probably with popcorn, coke, and vague dreams about a sweet girl at school.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

I actually anticipated that at the beginning of the movie we would only see the car driving on the street without a shot of the driver. We never see the Truck driver's face also. Its Truck vs Car.

[@mikeowen7526]

Sweet girl huh?!?😊

[@FirstMultitude]

I love Duel so much I even went to David Mann's pad in Toluca Lake shown in the first scene of the film. Don't look for it, it's not there anymore as I was disappointed to find out. A different home now stands in it's place.

[@DucNguyen0131]

The movie originally opened with "A Universal Studios Production", but it was replaced by the 1971-1990 movie logo on recent prints.

[@soundwave7855]

2:43 anyone know the song playing?

[@mikeowen7526]

Is it just me or is the woman's voice on the radio an absolute turn on 😜 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍

[@moogyboy6]

A couple of possibly coincidental details: 1) Large truck thinks it's horn as we pass it in downtown LA; 2) At least two other Chrysler A-body sedans (similar to the Plymouth Valiant that Mann drives) are seen in traffic; and most hilariously, 3) "I do the housework and take care of the baby and things like that" as Steven Spielberg's director credit appears on screen.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

What was that UFO type sound when turning to different radio stations back then?? I really liked that

[@liduck52]

Back then you had to turn a dial. As you turned it, you would pick up any station you were passing through.

[@EphemeralProductions]

AM radio frequency waves. Any AM radio has it, even now.

[@foundfindfinding5377]

milestone_ achiever *cough* hint, hint *cough* people mess around with those sounds to make weird music. Just grab a radio on the cheap and mess around with it yourself, and record it :) it's good fun

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this movie 🎥

[@Ayaki6166]

I love Duel from child and Vintage USA Cars.I lives LA Now.

[@Ayaki6166]

I like be this opening.I live Los Angeles.

[@mario2202]

greatly underappreciated traffic marvel in la (The 4 tunnels)

[@Tanketyx]

Would you be able to drop a pin on google maps where that tunnel is? Thanks!

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

@@Tanketyx It's the 110 right before the I-5 exit.

[@speakers79]

Route 66 used to run thru that tunnel.

[@Glenn1967ful]

Notice how many radio stations Americans had in 1971, even on AM. In Britain we had four national BBC stations and a few part time local stations, a situation that existed in some areas into the eighties. Certainly there were no phone in based talk stations, only BBC Radio 4 with its long news bulletins and current affairs programmes.

[@HIDHIFDB]

I never understand why in europe you had a few radio stations, spain was the same it had a few tv channels and a few tv stations in mexico you had regional and national channels also Fm, Am and border blasters Am stations with high power located in the usa/mexico border that had international range at night, my uncle from barcelona thinked that the reason of the lack of stations was the Soviet Union.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@HIDHIFDB The BBC was granted a monopoly in the 1920s and didn't have any competition until 1973 when commercial radio was gradually rolled in the major cities. A much bigger choice on the radio didn't really occur until the nineties when three commercial netwoek opened and more local stations were allowed.

[@nicolascervanteslorenzothe5083]

Use a 2017 US DVD Widescreen Director's Cut Remade And Amblin Entertainment Logo Added.

[@michaelmaristela2507]

0:17

[@nosferatu4181]

Is that the Spongebob Font? lol

[@dangarrison3503]

I-5 down the vine to 138 east.

[@403CLT]

Is it just me or does the writing look a lot like the one from SpongeBob?