Duel

...universes Matheson created. The King/Hill collaboration, "Throttle," is set in the same world as Matheson's story "Duel," which was famously adapted into a television film by Steven Spielberg. Other contributors include Matheson's...

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...since it's only a short (part of The Twilight Zone movie, 63 percent) and the details of I am Legend are always drastically changed for film, Duel remains as taut and efficient as it originally was in 1971. Representing Steven Spielberg's...

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Duel (1971 film) Duel is a 1971 television movie about a motorist (played by Dennis Weaver) on a remote and lonely road being stalked by a large tanker truck and its almost unseen driver. It was the first feature film directed by Steven...

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...the film. Richard Matheson, who had written the script for Steven Spielberg's celebrated 1971 television movie Duel '', says that he wrote a "very interesting" outline, although the story is credited to "some other writer". Universal...

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...work, Universal signed Spielberg to do four TV films. The first was a Richard Matheson adaptation called Duel '' about a monstrous tanker truck which tries to run a small car off the road. Special praise of this film by the influential British...

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