It seems I may have been duped. The board game does look suspiciously like the Knight Rider one, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they just stuck a different picture on the box and resold it. If anyone has ever seen such a game like this or any other for Duel, please let us know, or take this one with a giant pinch of salt. I will strive to do better in the future!
I recently saw a YT clip where they tracked down the cliff used in the ending. They found pieces of the truck still embedded in the ground, including most of the cab..
Multiple license plates on trucks in the 60 and 70's was common. If you drove a lot of miles in a state in those days the state required a separate plate. My uncles had a trucking company in those days and they had four plates on, so the six plates on the Dual truck would seem normal.
@@rockywatchesmovies I think he's saying that due to it being normal for trucks to have multiple plates, the villain trucker could put his trophies on his truck like that and no one would think it was odd.
A genuine classic. Spielberg was clearly a Hitchcock fan. Dennis Weaver was great as the boring businessman on a trip who encounters the killer truck and steps up when he realises no one is going to help him. Scared the hell out of me as a kid.Nightmares about greasy trucks lol. Thanks for the upload you did a lot of research some stuff i didn't know.
Until recently, I didn't know the multiple license plates were intended to be those of previous victims because trucks often have them for each of the states they do business in.
Yep, I just made that comment on here a few minutes ago. I doubt it meant those were plates from previous victims. Who takes plates off and displays them? It's like tagging yourself to the crime
The thing I thought was mysterious was that our local TV station in Rockford Illinois had a power outage at the most exciting part of the movie. The broadcast was on so late I just went to bed and I never found out how the movie ended until about 20 years later when I found a dvd of the movie.
I LOVE this masterpiece of movie and just watched it again over Thanksgiving. It’s timeless. ❤ BTW: Putting “Subscribe” on the truck’s LP got you the subscription. Well-done 👏🏻
Spielberg does not put things in a film without a reason. Near the beginning of the film, Dennis Weaver stops at a gas station and calls his wife. She is upset because a male friend was practically abusing her and her husband (Weaver) was not believing her, discounting her comments, and did not come to her aid. Then Dennis Weaver is facing an abusive situation and people do not believe him, discounts his comments, and do not come to his aid.
Weaver was such a good actor!...He was great in his own TV series...McCloud....Weaver was a life-long vegetarian...but eating cautiously did not save him from getting cancer.
VERY Well Done.. ( we'll just say i'm a fan ).. You got ALL the facts correct. AND... I knew 19 out of the 20.. i did NOT know about the bored game ... One lil FYI.. Although the Folklore suggests the Hero Truck was a 1955 ?? ( it's a 57 ).. Great Great Vid.. Thank you for posting
Great stuff. You can tell that the trailer was empty when it pulls into the petrol station after the initial car overtake; it rocks on its suspension, this wouldn't have happened if it was full. Also explains why no explosion at the very end. I used to think that the voice on the radio was K.I.T.T itself from Knight Rider
The elderly couple thatus seen in the old car that Davidann flags down for help, is the same couple seen in the helicopter in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also directed by Spielberg!
As a kid, we had Jiffy Pop and Root Beer Floats while sitting on our brown and burnt-orange floral couch while watching Duel "for the first time." Oh, and the TV was a RCA.
@@jetsons101 I'm not saying it was right or wrong, but there was a _LOT_ of stuff we never got because it was "too expensive." No TV dinners, they're too expensive. Never had a steak until in my 20s, they're too expensive. We didn't have SODA, it's TOO expensive! Working class folks, four kids, I'm sure money was tight, and as a kid, I couldn't appreciate it. OTOH, LOTS of Mac-n-Cheese, lots of "Hamburger Helper," lots of various Jello in molds, often with fruit or whatever.
@@josephgaviota Funny thing, when I first moved out and got my first home, I lived on Mac-N-Cheese and hot air popcorn for about a year. Fun times.......
Love all your videos, very interesting to hear the backstories on them, could you do one on Romancing the stone or Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother please, as they are two of my favourite movies, thanks again, keep them coming.🇦🇺
Funny how Spielberg didn't want Duel to end with an explosion, but at the end of Jaws he does that, even though air tanks don't explode when shot with a bullet (Myth Busters).
though the more realistic reaction to the tank being shot that the mythbusters got where it shot the tank all the way through the shark might've been just as gnarly an ending as the explosion.
Being in the UK where it premiered in the cinema, it wa a while before I knew it had been originally made as a TV movie. I saw it at the, now demolished, Metropole Victoria.
The stunt driver Cary Lofton, also known as ( Gary) Lofton was also credited for organizing the unique stunt work in the 1963 comedy all star movie It's A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad, Mad World
It says flammable on the truck when it’s carrying a load. It obviously was empty as the truck could go faster when it’s empty. If there was no gas in the trailer it wouldn’t ignite.
They could make a new Duel with same story line but at the end the Valiant changes into a Dodge Hellcat, does a 180 and faces off for a DUEL. Call Spielberg to write the end.
They used 4 1969 Plymouth valiants ,modified to look like a 1970..the movie car for the speed shots had a 318ci V8 ..the 3 others that got trashed were Slant 6's
IT did not premiere in Nov '71 that is when it was filmed. IN the opening credits you can see copyright 1972 in Roman Numerals the year when first shown in Feb '72
THE REASONING in why that truck DIDN'T BLOW UP was easy THE TANKER WAS EMPTY cause think ab out it that truck wouldn't been driving all fast and crashing into things if that TANKER was full
@@geraldscott4302 YES I HEAR YOU / THE WHOLE CENTENIAL MINI SERIES ( IS TOPS) I HAVE /HAD FAMILY IN LOVELAND = FT COLLINS COLO = I HAVE BEEN TO MANY FILM SITES THATS WHY I LOVE IT = I WAS IN ORCHARD COLO ( EAST OF GREELEY) THE MORNING AFTER THEY FILMED SNOW SCENE USING POTATO FLAKES FOR SNOW = COLO BEST STATE IN US = TK/YU
Honestly, a movie with some anti-woke jackwagon in a Hummer H1 trying to run a young person in a Nissan Leaf off of the road may work today. It probably wouldn't be anywhere near as good as "Duel" but, then again, what would be?
@@headintheshedablecomputer effects and other cheap woke ways of producing movies today which are not worth watching, too many unfortunately, super hero rubbish.
I AM 76 / MOTORCYCLE ACT PUT ME IN HOSPITAL = FELLOW TRADESMAN GIFT WAS THE PLAYBOY ISSUE = WHILE IN HOSPITAL SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE WAS VERTIGO ( NOT THE BEST MOVIE WHILE ON PAIN KILLERS 2 REASONS I LIKE DUEL MOVIE AND VERTIGO ALMOST 50 AGO //
I was a huge fan of Spielberg but I began to notice that he did have a tendency towards the twee. overly sweet ultra middle class families that began to invade his films. Duel, Fantastic, raw and gritty. Jaws was ok because the family was not the main focus of the movie and the adults were interesting and both funny and to some extent believable . The signs were there but only just. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Although I loved the majority of it, began to lean into gap toothed. cute kids. E.T was a massive disappointment for me . I have never watched Schindler's list or the colour purple so maybe I am missing out but in the case of Schindler's list it is a subject that I find too disturbing to watch having seen documentary films of Auschwitz and the emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves.
Great video...but was that last fact was kinda...I dunno...it seemed like you got stuck at 19 and had to come up with one more to get 20. Sure, I guess it's a fact, but c'mon...
It seems I may have been duped. The board game does look suspiciously like the Knight Rider one, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they just stuck a different picture on the box and resold it. If anyone has ever seen such a game like this or any other for Duel, please let us know, or take this one with a giant pinch of salt. I will strive to do better in the future!
In away the game board reminds me of the board from the game On The Buses
I am so glad they never made the truck blow up. The ending is so solid!
I recently saw a YT clip where they tracked down the cliff used in the ending. They found pieces of the truck still embedded in the ground, including most of the cab..
We saw this with our Dad when it aired, awesome movie, we never forgot it.
I remember watching this with my dad. I just loved it. Thanks for bring up some good memories.
The Duel is a true masterpiece in every aspect! Brilliant acting, intense and scary and the end is just perfect.
It's crazy it was a TV Movie , best tv movie ever made.
The Day After and The Burning Bed were better
GREAT FREAKING MOVIE!!!❤
Multiple license plates on trucks in the 60 and 70's was common. If you drove a lot of miles in a state in those days the state required a separate plate. My uncles had a trucking company in those days and they had four plates on, so the six plates on the Dual truck would seem normal.
Spielberg said they were trophies of past victims in an interview I watched
@@rockywatchesmovies I think he's saying that due to it being normal for trucks to have multiple plates, the villain trucker could put his trophies on his truck like that and no one would think it was odd.
I've seen Duel so meny times I've lost count I used to watch it with my Dad thats priceless Spielbergs best being a Petrol Head ⛽️ 😅
This is one of my favourite UA-cam channels. Every video is full of great info and visuals. Thank you!
Wow, thank you, glad you enjoy the videos
Wonderful film, great acting by all and what an ending. Thanks for this.
A genuine classic. Spielberg was clearly a Hitchcock fan. Dennis Weaver was great as the boring businessman on a trip who encounters the killer truck and steps up when he realises no one is going to help him. Scared the hell out of me as a kid.Nightmares about greasy trucks lol.
Thanks for the upload you did a lot of research some stuff i didn't know.
Great movie love the truck need more truck movies
You live in the states rocky. Im from Melbourne Australia
Catch up for a beer when I come state side like ya channel m8
Until recently, I didn't know the multiple license plates were intended to be those of previous victims because trucks often have them for each of the states they do business in.
Yep, I just made that comment on here a few minutes ago. I doubt it meant those were plates from previous victims. Who takes plates off and displays them? It's like tagging yourself to the crime
I always thought they might be, then I watched a Spielberg interview while researching this video and he said it in there.
Thanks for the video. Definitely gives me a new appreciation for this classic!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I originally read the story in "Playboy" and couldn't wait to see it on tv. 🙂
Playboy has stories?😊
Cars in Playboy ????????
The thing I thought was mysterious was that our local TV station in Rockford Illinois had a power outage at the most exciting part of the movie. The broadcast was on so late I just went to bed and I never found out how the movie ended until about 20 years later when I found a dvd of the movie.
Spielberg spelled backwards...brilliant!
Cannot believe I have not seen this. I noticed they have it on this app but in 19 parts....oh well...watching today. Thanks Rocky 🤘
They have it whole. Just search duel movie. I watched it yesterday.
ua-cam.com/video/gyKx0q298ZY/v-deo.html
"Modern" filmmakers might do well to study this... As always entertaining and informative, great stuff.
Informative. Thank you.
Great movie. McCloud... an ugly orange Dodge Dart... and a big rusty truck. Its actually a very exciting movie.
I LOVE this masterpiece of movie and just watched it again over Thanksgiving. It’s timeless. ❤
BTW: Putting “Subscribe” on the truck’s LP got you the subscription. Well-done 👏🏻
Definitely recommend the Richard Matheson short story as mentioned. Great read, widely available online.
Spielberg does not put things in a film without a reason. Near the beginning of the film, Dennis Weaver stops at a gas station and calls his wife. She is upset because a male friend was practically abusing her and her husband (Weaver) was not believing her, discounting her comments, and did not come to her aid. Then Dennis Weaver is facing an abusive situation and people do not believe him, discounts his comments, and do not come to his aid.
Don’t forget the radio commentary near the beginning, with the caller to the radio show unsure about what to put down in the census form…🤔
Classic.
Weaver was such a good actor!...He was great in his own TV series...McCloud....Weaver was a life-long vegetarian...but eating cautiously did not save him from getting cancer.
VERY Well Done.. ( we'll just say i'm a fan ).. You got ALL the facts correct. AND... I knew 19 out of the 20.. i did NOT know about the bored game ... One lil FYI.. Although the Folklore suggests the Hero Truck was a 1955 ?? ( it's a 57 ).. Great Great Vid.. Thank you for posting
My apologies, I may have been duped about the board game. Pinned a comment to the video explaining.
For a long time now, I have considered Jaws to be a remake of Duel,,, with a shark, instead of a truck...
And. The ending is perfect, the way it is...
Great stuff. You can tell that the trailer was empty when it pulls into the petrol station after the initial car overtake; it rocks on its suspension, this wouldn't have happened if it was full. Also explains why no explosion at the very end. I used to think that the voice on the radio was K.I.T.T itself from Knight Rider
As always you're dulcet tones make these videos a joy to watch.... I still can't pin your accent down though!
8:50 that's the Knight Rider board game 🤣🤣🤣
I recognized it right away because I had it as a kid.
I may have been duped. Pinned a comment to the video explaining. Thanks for pointing that out
The elderly couple thatus seen in the old car that Davidann flags down for help, is the same couple seen in the helicopter in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also directed by Spielberg!
Yep, And the Lady from the Snake a Rama was in 1941, Another one of his Movies!
@jdpinbaytown cool!
As a kid, we had Jiffy Pop and Root Beer Floats while sitting on our brown and burnt-orange floral couch while watching Duel "for the first time." Oh, and the TV was a RCA.
Ah, the good old days. Though we didn't get Jiffy Pop ... mom said it's too expensive.
@@josephgaviota Expensive but quick... lol
@@jetsons101 I'm not saying it was right or wrong, but there was a _LOT_ of stuff we never got because it was "too expensive." No TV dinners, they're too expensive. Never had a steak until in my 20s, they're too expensive. We didn't have SODA, it's TOO expensive! Working class folks, four kids, I'm sure money was tight, and as a kid, I couldn't appreciate it.
OTOH, LOTS of Mac-n-Cheese, lots of "Hamburger Helper," lots of various Jello in molds, often with fruit or whatever.
@@josephgaviota Funny thing, when I first moved out and got my first home, I lived on Mac-N-Cheese and hot air popcorn for about a year. Fun times.......
the old joke for "Jaws" was "did you know the girl in the beginning had dandruff?" Yeah, they found her head and shoulders on the beach
Love all your videos, very interesting to hear the backstories on them, could you do one on Romancing the stone or Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother please, as they are two of my favourite movies, thanks again, keep them coming.🇦🇺
Great suggestion!
Funny how Spielberg didn't want Duel to end with an explosion, but at the end of Jaws he does that, even though air tanks don't explode when shot with a bullet (Myth Busters).
And tankers (and cars) don't necessarily explode when they roll over. But sometimes tankers do, if the fire gets bad enough.
though the more realistic reaction to the tank being shot that the mythbusters got where it shot the tank all the way through the shark might've been just as gnarly an ending as the explosion.
Classic grindhouse
Being in the UK where it premiered in the cinema, it wa a while before I knew it had been originally made as a TV movie. I saw it at the, now demolished, Metropole Victoria.
The stunt driver Cary Lofton, also known as ( Gary) Lofton was also credited for organizing the unique stunt work in the 1963 comedy all star movie It's A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad, Mad World
He also drove the Steve McQueen Bullitt Mustang in all the hardcore scenes while Steve McQueen did some of the mild driving
@@tommccallan8802 That's interesting too !
BEST MOVIE EVER STILL IN 2025!!
I was 5 years old when this movie came out. Scared the 💩 Out of me😳
It _was_ really tense!
2,000 miles divided by 13 days of filming = 153.846 miles per day
It used to be common for over the road trucks to have multiple number plates to comply with different states licensing requirements.
Mcloud !!
ABC had both duel and the night stalker movie in the same year. They were hot.
All but a perfect movie - I think it's Spielberg's best (and that's saying something).
I want to play that board game now!
It's fake. That's the Knight Rider board game. I even found the photo he edited. I had that game as a kid.
I may have been duped. Pinned a comment to the video explaining. Thanks for pointing that out
@@pdennis93 - Oh that’s a shame, I quite liked the look of that! Still, I suppose you could always make a Scalextric version!
I don't think the license plates are trophies, trucks, especially back then, needed to be plated for every state and province they ran to.
FWIW, I remember back then when it was frequent to see 4 or 5 or so plates on a truck.
It says flammable on the truck when it’s carrying a load. It obviously was empty as the truck could go faster when it’s empty. If there was no gas in the trailer it wouldn’t ignite.
Any flammable tank that's empty is more dangerous than a full one "Fact" Vapours!
Shame it didn’t come in cinemas ,
Can you make 20 things you didn't know bit bigger logo on Duel image please
Richard Matheson a true master
Scared the crap out of me as a kid.
They could make a new Duel with same story line but at the end the Valiant changes into a Dodge Hellcat, does a 180 and faces off for a DUEL. Call Spielberg to write the end.
The tanker was used in an episode of emergency.
A jackleg that lives close to me bought that truck and has it at his truck company 😮
Nice product placement for your "SUBSCRIBE" button. ❤ Very subliminal too, just like one of the Robert Culp episodes of "Columbo". 🙂
What year was that Valiant..1970? They were such basic, solid cars, with that famous slant six engine. I want one!
They used 4 1969 Plymouth valiants ,modified to look like a 1970..the movie car for the speed shots had a 318ci V8 ..the 3 others that got trashed were Slant 6's
IT did not premiere in Nov '71 that is when it was filmed. IN the opening credits you can see copyright 1972 in Roman Numerals the year when first shown in Feb '72
I remember seeing that episode of The Incredible Hulk on T.V. back when it first aired when I was un highschool, and I thought it was pretty flaky
Peter Falk said that Spielberg was wasted directing Columbo. In his opinion he was far better than that. I think he mentioned it in his book
Needed subtitles in places 😕
THE REASONING in why that truck DIDN'T BLOW UP was easy THE TANKER WAS EMPTY cause think ab out it that truck wouldn't been driving all fast and crashing into things if that TANKER was full
MEMO #2 DENIS WEAVER WAS ALSO GREAT IN MINI SERIES CENTENIAL ( R J POTETE CATTLE DRIVE TEXAS TO COLO)
I mostly remember Dennis Weaver as McCloud, from the NBC Mystery Movie series back in the '70s.
@@geraldscott4302 YES I HEAR YOU / THE WHOLE CENTENIAL MINI SERIES ( IS TOPS) I HAVE /HAD FAMILY IN LOVELAND = FT COLLINS COLO = I HAVE BEEN TO MANY FILM SITES THATS WHY I LOVE IT = I WAS IN ORCHARD COLO ( EAST OF GREELEY) THE MORNING AFTER THEY FILMED SNOW SCENE USING POTATO FLAKES FOR SNOW = COLO BEST STATE IN US = TK/YU
Textbook.
Whos the female celebrity who watched
One thing I did know , this is about the worst most movie I’ve ever seen in my life!
Too bad it was a dart and not a super bee
Duel 1971 is classic movie back 71 with amazing scenes and action can’t do remake of it in 2024 with woke culture and electric car 🚗
Duel II: Range Anxiety
What has woke culture got to do with it?
@@headintheshedable I figured they were joking
Honestly, a movie with some anti-woke jackwagon in a Hummer H1 trying to run a young person in a Nissan Leaf off of the road may work today. It probably wouldn't be anywhere near as good as "Duel" but, then again, what would be?
@@headintheshedablecomputer effects and other cheap woke ways of producing movies today which are not worth watching, too many unfortunately, super hero rubbish.
I AM 76 / MOTORCYCLE ACT PUT ME IN HOSPITAL = FELLOW TRADESMAN GIFT WAS THE PLAYBOY ISSUE = WHILE IN HOSPITAL SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE WAS VERTIGO ( NOT THE BEST MOVIE WHILE ON PAIN KILLERS 2 REASONS I LIKE DUEL MOVIE AND VERTIGO ALMOST 50 AGO //
I was a huge fan of Spielberg but I began to notice that he did have a tendency towards the twee. overly sweet ultra middle class families that began to invade his films. Duel, Fantastic, raw and gritty. Jaws was ok because the family was not the main focus of the movie and the adults were interesting and both funny and to some extent believable . The signs were there but only just. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Although I loved the majority of it, began to lean into gap toothed. cute kids. E.T was a massive disappointment for me . I have never watched Schindler's list or the colour purple so maybe I am missing out but in the case of Schindler's list it is a subject that I find too disturbing to watch having seen documentary films of Auschwitz and the emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves.
This was one of the most ridiculous and boring films my cousin forced us to watch as he was obsessed with trucks 😡
Great video...but was that last fact was kinda...I dunno...it seemed like you got stuck at 19 and had to come up with one more to get 20. Sure, I guess it's a fact, but c'mon...
I know, I was scraping the barrel a bit for that one
Americans can't even pronounce it they say dool
How the hell do YOU say it? Do EL?
Rhymes with what you do … drool
worst movie of all time, love watching it, this 20 things is like really 3 things
Jaws is a remake of Duel