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.
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!😘
As per our belief fathers are re born in tha same family as son grandson or even great grandson.Look deeply at your family kids and you may locate your dear Dad
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
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.
This was really the first Jaws. The way Spielberg only showed glimpses of the driver, the music setting the mood. Great camera angles. Movie storytelling at its best. As awesome today as when I saw it as kid.
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.
@failranch9542 , Dale Van Sickel was the stuntman for the car Carey Loftin only drove the truck and the green station wagon that swerves to miss Weaver's car in the middle of the road on the set of Duel
This movie is EPIC! There was no CGI, trick photography or special effects. Wonderful story line, great scenery and superb acting is what made this movie great! Could watch it over and over again!
This movie is an absolute classic and is vintage Steven Spielberg! That’s amazing your little note and I heard the animal roar almost sounded like in the Godzilla movies
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.😮
@@biakabutookahe was simply a sociopath. He felt wronged by something Dennis’s character did at the beginning of the film and thus immediately had it out for him. That’s what I think anyway. :)
I enjoyed the last scene where that wooden twig rubbing on that tire rotating as it comes to a stop. I thought of all of that kinetic energy is finally spent when the tire comes to a complete stop. Pure genius Spielberg.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 UA-cam, 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.
@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.
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?
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.
@@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*.
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.
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.
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.
I read where there is a possible remake of Duel with Steven Spielberg directing along with Tom Cruise. That would be epic if this is true, and knowing that it would feature Tom Cruise in it.
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.
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.
J'ai toujours aimé ce film terriblement angoissant, le climat installé est oppressant à souhait et l'on se demande bien pourquoi le chauffeur du camion poursuit inlassablement le conducteur de cette voiture.. c'est pour moi l'in des meilleurs films de ce genre sans effets ni trucages inutiles 👍🤩
Nope it is not. A UA-camr named retro recipes did a video on it. Looked for it ( part two is the most interesting and that's when they say it) so they actually emailed the ofc people who worked on it and it actually fell off a shorter cliff then what they thought. They removed it shortly after( same with the car) also in part 2 when they thought they found the cab it was actually a movie that was made 30 years before duel was made.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
There is a terrible "remake " of this movie called "Wrecker" ... about a pissed off tow truck driver going after 2 girls in a Mustang GT. It's a scene for scene rip off of this great movie.
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😂
@@Johnfisher12345You’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.
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.
I heard it !
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!
Bruce from Jaws got the same roar after he was blown up in JAWS.
😊cool
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.
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!😘
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Found memory of your father. May he rest in peace.
Abc movies of the week omg I remember that
ABC Movie of the Week...
It was the best.....
Good Family time...
As per our belief fathers are re born in tha same family as son grandson or even great grandson.Look deeply at your family kids and you may locate your dear Dad
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
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Long forgotten art of filming car crashes apparently
100% agree! The car or truck exploding as it goes off a cliff is so cliche and contrived!
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.
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.
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they used toy truck and a mock up cliff, and that was absolutely realistic on screen.
Love this movie. Could watch it over and over again.
This was really the first Jaws. The way Spielberg only showed glimpses of the driver, the music setting the mood. Great camera angles. Movie storytelling at its best. As awesome today as when I saw it as kid.
What an amazing movie!! So simple, and yet so terrifying 😯
One of my favourite movies❤
I've the movie on dvd, and I still find it amazing!
It is amazing an early Spielberg masterpiece- nevertheless I still don't understand what the truck drivers motivation is....
Yeah and no other cars on the road!! Like ever!! 😂😂
Great Movie! I worked for Carey Loftin who was the stunt driver in the truck.. Hell of a nice guy.
Spielbergs best work...flawless use of effects, editing, camera angle, tension, etc...
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.
I was intrigued all along the movie..😅
So,so ..
I believe that in some scenes he also drove the car.
He made a cameo in the cafe, he was the guy at the end of the row with the brown shirt that drove off in a work truck.
@failranch9542 , Dale Van Sickel was the stuntman for the car
Carey Loftin only drove the truck and the green station wagon that swerves to miss Weaver's car in the middle of the road on the set of Duel
@@awildjared1396, That was not Carey Loftin...
The guy you're referring to is credited as Earl Holliman
This movie is EPIC! There was no CGI, trick photography or special effects. Wonderful story line, great scenery and superb acting is what made this movie great! Could watch it over and over again!
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.
Exactly the same for me, was 6 or 7. Amazing what stays with you
This movie is an absolute classic and is vintage Steven Spielberg! That’s amazing your little note and I heard the animal roar almost sounded like in the Godzilla movies
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.
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.
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.
No one had heard of road rage back then. Now, this is almost normal!😁
Não acredito, porque ignorante e burro sempre existiram ...
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.
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.😮
It happened back then it was just much less common.
@@biakabutookahe was simply a sociopath. He felt wronged by something Dennis’s character did at the beginning of the film and thus immediately had it out for him. That’s what I think anyway. :)
I enjoyed the last scene where that wooden twig rubbing on that tire rotating as it comes to a stop. I thought of all of that kinetic energy is finally spent when the tire comes to a complete stop. Pure genius Spielberg.
Fun facts:
1. This was Steven Spielberg's first movie he directed.
2. The story was written by Stephen King.
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.
@@STho205Thank you so much for the info.
No it wasn’t. It was a direct to tv movie. And written by Mathewson. But nice try. Do research next time
@@Bourneidentitwhat wasn't? No1 or no2?
@@NO-TRUCKS-GIVEN Number 2.
I was a tanker driver for 33 years
This is my all time favorite comedy/fantasy movie 😅
Those compartments would have opened up and hit the engine block and poof. I drove tanker and this cracked me up!
What y'all saying, too much movie magic going on here? 😁
Comedy??
What i love about this movie is that it was all filmed near my hometown of Antelope Valley! 😍😍😍☺☺☺
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.
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?
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.
افضل فيلم شهدته في حياتي من ناحية التمثيل و التصوير و السيناريو
Meilleur film que j'ai vu dans ma vie tournage mise en scène scénario suspense etc...
The Cliff scene was Great!!!
Yea they had to that in one shot
@@thepromiseman7745yep they had to and they did. :)
Got the bastard! 😅
Satisfying ending. Watched the full movie again recently for the first time in decades.
"Duel"(1971) is an excellent action thriller road movie! This is one of the best movies of all time for this Kind!
Queen...another one bites the dust..
Another one gone & another one gone !!!
Just watched this movie yesterday. It's pretty impressive for young Spielberg's debut. It doesn't felt cheap either despite the low budget.
Iove this movie. Dennis Weaver was a good actor
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.
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 UA-cam, 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.
@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.
It was a real car & truck. Spielberg only had one crack at it.
3:48 Like the fail of my ex relationship 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
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?
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
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.
@@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*.
62,been driving for 41 years, I run team with my wife, loved this movie
Great Thrill of 1971 with less Technology and originals
Pas besoin d'effets techniques extraordinaires pour faire un excellent film fantastique, il suffit que la situation soit .... fantastique.
Eu Quero Muito Assistir Esse Filme 🎥. É Top 😊
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 ?
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.
The cliff is at mystery mesa near Santa Clarita I used to fly rc gliders there and one time had to climb down to retrieve a model.
Steven Spielberg's debut Duel Brilliant Road Thriller & ultimate cult classic 🤘🏻💯🎞🎥🎬
Dennis Weaver should have shouted "are we having fun yet you SOB".
Spielberg recreates the same tension in the final scene of Jaws, except that here it is not a shark but a truck.
In my top 5 cult films
Esse filme é sensacional o ator Dennis Weaver era TOP
One of the most exciting movies ever 🎉.. even though you only can see one face during the whole film..😊
The most terrifying thing is that we never learn why the truck driver targeted the poor guy in the first place.
He really hates that mustache 😂
Probably the most famous car 🚗 crash ending ever filmed!!!😮
Back when movies were decent. No CGI. No continuous product placement. Just good entertainment.
LOVE. THE. MOVIE. ❤
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Iconic moment from my very early childhood
So when the truck goes over the edge of the cliff the drivers door is open. Was this a mistake when filming?
It was because the stunt driver had to jump out at the last second
Cool flick
I was 6 years old when I saw this. 😮
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.
I've got the movie. I watched it my first time in 1973. It was great.
Very well dome sequence!
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.
According to Steven Spielberg, it is oil.
All his victims cars were red. The driver hated the color red and dodge cars.
Shades of Star Trek
I feel like the killer truck represented a bull
😜😜😜😜
I wonder how David Mann made his way home and explained the loss of his car to a demented truck driver.
Rusty Nail 💅 would love this movie 😂
I read where there is a possible remake of Duel with Steven Spielberg directing along with Tom Cruise. That would be epic if this is true, and knowing that it would feature Tom Cruise in it.
If they do a remake. Leave Tom Cruise in the car.
This is a great movie I saw it in the 70ds when I was a kid
Also, if you notice when the truck went over, the driver door was open, so I think the driver jumped out
On 5:55
He could have possibly died due to that we can clearly some blood on the steering wheel
Is it blood or hydraulic fluid?@@Emmanuel-ms8pr
@@Emmanuel-ms8prand the door opened when the truck was falling not when it was in land
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.
@@KeijiSuwa 😂 they used a model there was no driver. There's even a video on you tube of them shooting the stunt.
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.
I remember how much this movie scared me when I saw it as a kid.
J'ai toujours aimé ce film terriblement angoissant, le climat installé est oppressant à souhait et l'on se demande bien pourquoi le chauffeur du camion poursuit inlassablement le conducteur de cette voiture.. c'est pour moi l'in des meilleurs films de ce genre sans effets ni trucages inutiles 👍🤩
Cary loftin was the truck driver and did all the stunts
Is that truck still there after all these years? Watched this in Nov 2024.
Nope it is not. A UA-camr named retro recipes did a video on it. Looked for it ( part two is the most interesting and that's when they say it) so they actually emailed the ofc people who worked on it and it actually fell off a shorter cliff then what they thought. They removed it shortly after( same with the car) also in part 2 when they thought they found the cab it was actually a movie that was made 30 years before duel was made.
😊love this movie
0,24 circa 60 miles on speedo but gear indicator shows neutral
Free-wheeling down the mountain you'd hit 60mph. He shifts to N at the summit.
Weaver was super great. One of the first movies with only one actor (Cast Away) that held the story line.
Good movie
Scared the crap out of me as a kid
The destroyed truck was removed the day after the scene was filmed despite what some say
This movie use to piss my dad off, he was a truck driver and he thought the movie would give truckers a bad name
Also did anyone else see the truckers door door open at the cliff scene as well? Did he jump out as well?
It was an error. I read somewhere that the stunt driver jumped out but the door didn't shut.
@@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.
Yeah I noticed that too
Where can I see the full movie?
❤ The guy is a dude, hats off to him
Anybody knows why the car is driving in N neutral?
Thanks, never having been able to watch the full movie, that was the part I missed
I noticed that too. 😮
His engine overheated because he needed a new radiator hose.
Because you didn’t watch the movie
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.
I rooted for the tormented truck driver all the way against that whimpering David Mann and his junker car
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.
I think the unsung hero of the movie was whoever came up with the musical score.
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....
This is alive and well in this day and age ,its called Road Rage
The truck dtiver's door was open before going down!? Not good.
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.
And so how did he go back home ?
Um maybe he called for rescue 👍 maybe he did that and got in some random persons car
He didn’t. He’s still out there sitting on the ledge throwing rocks over the cliff to this day.
Uber🤣
@@Johnfisher12345 I like this comment a lot. this made my day! 😂
those locations are in Acton, Piru & Palmdale California.
Speechless that truck tanker didn't explode. It says it in the book, and it should have been in the movie as well.
Ran out of budget, I suppose.
I think it's budgetary issue as this is a made for tv movie but I think Spielberg managed to improvise the final scenes.
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
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!
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When you are trying to stop your truck from going off a cliff, make sure you honk the horn.
Driver pitched forward and his chest or forearms hit the steering wheel hub.
@@roberthaworth8991 It's not on the steering wheel. It's a cable above your left shoulder.
I always do
There is a terrible "remake " of this movie called "Wrecker" ... about a pissed off tow truck driver going after 2 girls in a Mustang GT. It's a scene for scene rip off of this great movie.
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😂
0:23 why does the gear position is in neutral !!!
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!
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Car stalled.
He was coasting down hill.
He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot
@@astein7035 He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot
@@KingKuba1313 yeah. How people can't realize that is funny to me
Who's here in 2024
Notice the shifter is in neutral?
He was coasting in neutral because his radiator hose blew. Idiot
You and 200 others.
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You'd think there would be a fist fight at the end . Looks like truck driver bailed out
Maybe if the truck driver was Steve Henderson..
You can see blood dripping in the cab....🤨
@@ADBLOCKER4UA-camThat was actually ment to be oil according to Spielberg, but the filter used on that scene made it appear as blood.
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?
Nope not at all.
@@BigAmericanDreamI mean not feeling sorry for a fellow human being but I do feel sorry for a giant metal vehicle!
@@pikachuthebananasplit9061 he was a bad guy so, Not really.
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That moment when you wish you wasn't a cheapskate and bought a hemi cuda instead...lol. 😂
They have that rig at truck shows still looks the same
No, someone else recreated it. The one and only original was destroyed in this scene.
@@Johnfisher12345You’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.