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TrailersFromHell: ‘Duel’ (1971)

January 20, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

A little TV movie that helped inaugurate “The Seventies Film,” as “existential dread” dripped down from the elites and started being felt by average, unintellectual people. There is no “why” — Something (with a capital “S”) just wants to kill you. (See the director’s next film…)

The Car and The Truck join The Gun as symbols of America, just in time for the Energy Crisis.

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