Review of Duel

Duel (1971 TV Movie)
Excellent Made-For-TV Movie
6 January 2002
To the reviewer who hated this movie, come on! For one thing, did you listen to the dialogue in the movie? David Mann is a guy who just wants to do his job, and has never driven over 60 if he can help it. Suddenly he's pushed into the middle of this cat-and-mouse chase for some unknown reason and he's supposed to do the right thing?! Like what? Richard Matheson, the author of the short story and script has said the inspiration for this story came back when he and a friend were playing golf one day and they heard the news that Kennedy was shot. They left for home and came up behind a big gas truck spewing bad fumes. They passed the truck. Suddenly the truck passed them and got back in front of them to spew more noxious fumes at them. And this was a real incident, so why did the truck driver do that? Who knows, but he did it. And you say you can't believe Mann wouldn't be able to get away from the determined truck driver?!
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