Duel
1971
****
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Dennis Weaver, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell
Steven Spielberg made his name with this nailbiting nuts-and-bolts thriller about a traveling businessman, who is terrorised by a tanker truck for no apparent reason. The truck doesn't give up and the tension doesn't drop. There is very little material in Richard Matheson's screenplay, but Spielberg manages to squeeze every drop of tension out of it with his visual storytelling skills.
