Description
Duel is Steven Spielberg's 1971 debut feature-length thriller. A traveling businessman on a lonely desert highway finds himself relentlessly pursued by a massive diesel tanker truck whose driver is never seen. Dennis Weaver stars as the hunted motorist. The screenplay is by Richard Matheson, based on his own published story, and the film was produced by George Eckstein. Originally made for television, Duel became a cult classic of the road-suspense genre and helped launch Spielberg's career. This is the VHS release from MCA/Universal Home Video, copyright 1990, catalog number 55096. It comes in a cardboard slipcase sleeve featuring the iconic truck artwork and has a black-shell tape. The tape is recorded in color in Hi-Fi, with a running time of 1 hr. 31 mins., and is Not Rated. ISBN 1-55880-424-2.