Duel

The Car Fasten your seatbelts for the terrifying thrill ride that has become a cult classic - The Car! The peaceful tranquility of a small Western town is disturbed when a murderous car wreaks havoc by viciously mowing down innocent victims. New sheriff Wade Parent (James Brolin) may be ...	Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (Supercharger Edition) Susan George (Straw Dogs) is ex-groupie Mary and Peter Fonda (Easy Rider) is wannabe-NASCAR driver Larry. They're thieves on the run from sheriff Vic Morrow (The Blackboard Jungle), who carries neither gun nor badge. According to director John Hough (The Legend of Hell House), hi...	Maximum Overdrive Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 81 minutes Rating: Pg	The Sugarland Express Steven Spielberg's first feature film was, in fact, a small-scale commercial flop--but good enough to earn him a shot at making his name directing Jaws. Goldie Hawn and William Atherton play a young couple who, after some bad breaks and mistakes, have their child taken away by th...	Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition) This special 30th Anniversary Edition is Digitally Mastered and contains exclusive footage, interviews, and behind-the-scenes material. Steven Spielberg directed this classic film that became one of the most enduring action-suspense films of all time. "Jaws" was an instant blockb...
The California Kid Studio: Timeless Media Group Release Date: 08/21/2007 Run time: 74 minutes Rating: Nr	Bullitt (Two-Disc Special Edition) Peter Yates's 1968 cop drama has its existentialist pretensions, but there is something seductive about its strained seriousness and Steve McQueen's intentionally stoic performance as a San Francisco police detective on the trail of a murderer. A couple of key action sequences bo...	Race With the Devil An alternate title for this movie could easily be RV to Hell. Two middle-class couples take their spankin'-new motor home on a trip to Colorado. While camping out in Texas, the men see something they shouldn't--a human sacrifice by Satanists who somehow manage not to notice th...	1941 (Collector's Edition) Watching this director's cut, it's finally possible to see why the studio made Spielberg mercilessly hack up this comedy: it's a screaming movie (everyone screams a lot), and screaming movies do not need character development. So all those character-development scenes hit the cut...	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) In the night skies near his Muncie Indiana home power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with benevolent aliens and their Mothership. Spectacular spe...

Great Thriller!
If you haven't had a chance to watch this movie, take my advice and get it. It's well worth the price. It put Spielberg on the map, and you'll know why as soon as you finish the movie. Scary road rage before there was a term for it!

first time only
i saw this movie plenty of years ago and recently got in the mood to order old movies i recall as good it was ok the 2nd time around i guess the more realistic movies with more thriller action has made a once good film like this seem mediocre i would advise it if its ur first time

Excellent
The Duel is one of my favorite all-time movies. I original saw it on TV many years ago and remember being absolutely riveted to the screen. I now have it on DVD and it has not lost its power. It is a must see movie.

I generally despise Spielberg's pap, but this one's a gem!
"Duel" is one of those ABC Movie of the Week standards from the 1970's (along with "Killdozer") that had a tremendous impact on us as impressionable kids. A true gem of a film, intense from start to finish yet suitable for family viewing, one that has stood the test of time despite some of the dated 70's era material. As is typical of Spielberg films, there are a few inexcusable filming errors - watch for the incredible disappearing crossing arm at the railroad crossing - but for the most part you won't notice them unless you're a stickler for film perfection. I'm somewhat suprised no one has attempted a remake - even with cell phones and GPS one could incorporate dead zones and GPS errors into the plot to keep the sense of isolation intact. I'd change the car to a hybrid (yellow of course, with an "Oil is Evil" bumper sticker or something to that effect), and the David Mann character to one of those obnoxious "greenie" types who ultimately transforms from wimp into a real man by the end of the film. Oh wait, they already did that in the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes"! Oh well!

"SEMI-Tough"
To my mind the best thing Spielberg has ever done. This movie strikes a cord in the heart of everyman. Have we all not had a semi breathing down our necks on a freeway, interstate or elsewhere? They could not stop if they had to and we would be a greasespot on the road. Dennis Weaver is great as the unsophisticated salesman that is terrorized by this demon. You feel the truck is driving itself, pre-programmed as you never see a driver at all, just feel the evil bearing down. Spielberg works hard to build the tension perfectly in this movie. We witness the roller-coaster emotions of Weaver as he has gotten rid of him, then realizes he is still there, gets rid of him again, and he is back. The noise of the 450 Cummings (?) and the irritation of the horn, the air brakes, the rear-view mirror images of the monster. A thrilling movie.