How amazing that the SAME road was closed 52 years later!

Personally, I was very fascinated by the Californian landscapes of the 70s, its small towns in the interior, its motels, its gas stations etc. . I am nostalgic for that time.

This movie will forever be one of my favorite movies of all time. The suspense and the car chase is far better than anything I've seen in modern movies. Steven Spielberg and Dennis Weaver deserve huge applause for creating such a timeless classic. It's quite amazing how a movie with a simple plot like this can be made into such a fantastic thriller.

What are the odds that the road block would be in the same spot decades later? Amazing.

Great work. Fell in love with this brilliant movie when I was 15 in 1978. The genius of Spielberg with the panoramic views with cameras mounted on the vehicles have made it a classic. Nobody could have played this role as well as Weaver!

Hi from Russia. It's my favourite film. I was a child when looked it. Now I look Duel every summer))

I've seen this movie at least 6 times, and i discover new little details every time! It's a classic!

I seen duel for the first time in 1992 when I was 16 ,,it blew me away,,,still my fav movie to this day..

Saw Duel as an 11 year old, love the movie. Dennis Weaver was well known already playing Macloud on TV.

Thank you! This was so very well made! Not only are the "then & now" locations interesting, but the presentation of it outstanding! Very well executed indeed!

Such a great flick!!! I was 14 in 1971 when I saw Duel on TV. Edge of the seat, wild ride of a movie!!!

Duel has been a true classic and I still remember being scared out of my mind as a 6 year old in 1971 watching this movie with my family. The suspense was non-stop and everything Spielberg involved was terrifying including the choice of truck to use for the film. For those that do not know, Steven Spielberg used the exact premise of Duel when filming Jaws. He felt the unknown was more terrifying than actually seeing what was coming... With that concept of not seeing the truck driver and only that menacing looking truck, he never showed the full shark in Jaws until the last 30 minutes of the movie making it even more terrifying and creating the first Summer blockbuster. Duel was the first of many to come. Pure genius...

You’ve produced an outstanding video here. Carefully detailed, high quality, perfectly organized and edited. I seen Duel many times and you’re film is a gem that satisfies us the many fans!

Amazing work. Thanks for upload!!

You can watch this with no sound and the movie still keeps you involved!

This movie was the BEST need to see it again. I loved the truck they used

Nice work, the film had such a simple plot but Spielberg does such an excellent job of keeping you on the edge of the seat for the entire film. These old films are a great snapshot of an America long since gone....

I remember reading the short story in one of my dad's Playboy magazines. I know, I know, I read the article. The artwork caught my eye. Of course, I looked at the centerfold, she's a grandmother now. I was 15. Thanks for this.

I remember watching this movie on back when all we had were 3 channels on TV. As a kid this movie scared the crap out of me.

This is one of my favorite 70's movies Carey loftin the truck driver was awesome....who ever did this should do a then and now scenes on the movie ...The car👍🏿

Dual was one of the simplest, most intense movies I ever saw. Non stop entertainment. Or as TV Guide described it , "high octane" entertainment.

Quite simply one of the greatest movies ever made. Stunning on every level. Spielberg showed his legendary genius early on...

Thank you so much for making this comparison video 👍🏼 One of my favourite movies; an absolutely timeless classic that never seems to age and crazy to think that Dennis Weaver (had he still been with us) would be turning 100 next year. 😱

I was 15 when I watched that movie, I was amazed with that old Peterbilt. 6 years later I got a job at the Peterbilt Plant in Newark California. Watching your video, I was also amazed at how much Dennis Weaver looked like Billy Martin, the manager for the A's and Yankees. A big 👍

As a kid of the 70’s I would scour the TV Guide for this move, and one other highway terror movie, Night Terror, in which Valery Harper is a housewife terrorized by a psycho killer. Both movies would often be played as the late, late, late movie and I would never miss either one! My parents certainly would not let me stay up that late to watch a scary movie, so I would set my alarm for 1am, sneak down to the den and sit 6 inches from the TV with the volume real low! The next day when I was too tired to go to school I would fake a stomach ache, stay home from school and watch The Price is Right and Let’s make a Deal while mom made me cinnamon toast! My parents were either very naive, or more likely just great parents who gave me a wonderful childhood. Rest in Peace Mom and Dad. 😘

I love stuff like that. A hearty thank you from Germany. It´s great to watch this.

I first watched this movie with my Mom on TV around 1975-76. It was spellbinding even then as a 12 year old. We used to drive similar roads out to Lancaster and Mt Wilson. RIP Mom. Nice work putting this together. 👌🏽

Outstanding work! I’m old enough to remember this when it was released. Scared the crap out of me! Still a great movie and possibly the inspiration for “Jaws”. Your research and filming are top notch. 👍

One of my absolute favorite movies......Thanks for this.

Great movie had me freaking out. I had a 1971 Plymouth Valiant, green. What fun, would pack it full with all my friends

Nicely done. Note that the entire opening coming out of the house, driving out of LA, the laundromat interior, railroad crossing and Soledad tunnel scenes were not in the original broadcast version at all. Those scenes were filmed a full year later in order to make the movie long enough for overseas theatrical release.

One of mt all-time favorites! Had me nail biting and glued to the T.V.! I Understand this was a low budget made for T.V. movie one of the best offerings from a very young Spielberg and Dennis Weaver was spectacular in this as well! 🙏🙏🙏

Great movie, I remember watching this on TV as a kid and being on the edge of my seat the whole time. Just recently rewatched it and it's still a good movie.

I first saw this movie over 20 years ago by mistake, I was bored and flipping the controller, stumbled upon it and would never be the same, Classic.

In middle school I stayed home from school on a sick day, probably around 94 or 95. This was the day time movie on tbs or something, I remember I was gonna change the channel because it just seemed old and out dated, but I watched the whole movie and loved it

Amazing job of what I believe is an underrated movie

One of my favorite movies of all time.

The oft-featured Sierra Hwy was originally part of US 6, which ran from Boston to Los Angeles. It still exists in California between Bishop and the state line. It's a great little drive from Canyon Country (north of LA) out to the desert, where it runs into US 395. I think it's a great little piece of movie magic that a round trip through LA County can be made to look like a linear chase movie.

Thank you so much for producing this. I saw it as young kid in my local fleapit cinema in rural Australia. Gave me nightmares for weeks.

This as always been a favourite of mine, the filming of the movie was so realistic, the vehicles and panoramic views, these movies came along before the computerized technology,I was a truck driver for many years and came to realise how intimidating you could be behind a can on a remote road if you wanted to pass sounding your horn and flashing your lights,the 70s movies were more real and believable,as like Bullitt and French connection car chases proved and remain the best of all time 🎥

Think about this: tv networks showed their tv movies ONE TIME. They might repeat it once (& its sold to other markets), but usually if you missed oit, you missed it, unless it showed up on a Saturday afternoon movie randomly.

This movie is extremely underrated!

Excellent video, I think is such good film for Spielberg's first film. I've ordered a copy on 4K blu-ray.

Still one of my all time favorites.Watched it as 11 y/o kid. The TV network hyped and promoted it, so I was anxious to watch it. Is on my bucket list to ride to the highway on my motorcycle.

Loved this movie. Thank you for taking the time to do this. 👍

Love these retro looks at locations scenes. Fascinating the difference in the camera resolutions from then and today.

This is the best video on KZfaq. No kidding.

Cool video! At exactly 2:49 I spotted something that I remembered very well as a kid. On the far left of the frame you can see part of the 14/5 interchange where the connecting ramp collapsed during the Sylmar quake. In this shot you can see both the section remaining as well as a small part of the ramp that fell onto the ground below. Even crazier, in 1994 the rebuilt ramp *also* collapsed during the Northridge quake.

What an Excellent Film I have seen and thanks for Revisited those root after many years...

This film is legendary! It marked my childhood.

That was pretty cool! One of my favorite movies that I've watched numerous times and it doesn't get old on me.

Should have taken a sick day. Was 17 when I saw it. Still watch ⌚️ now again. Nothing made like 😢 this any more

Great work. Everything seems greener now!

I've driven this road literally hundreds of times to visit my friends while I was in LA. I saw Duel when I was about 10 or 11 back in the 70's and it's remained one of my favourite films. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this video! I hope to return someday and drive those same roads (and through THAT tunnel!) once again! Cheers from Australia.

I bought it on dvd back in 2000 still watch it.

Great video, thanks for posting, I remember the movie Duel, classic movie, which shows you don't need fancy special effects to make a great film, just a car and a truck.

Can’t believe that same railroad crossing is still there, that’s so cool 👍🏻

GP,, WOW!!! SO GREAT AWSOME ,, MY SON MAX 8 LOVES THIS MOVIE I DO TO ... WE LOVE OLD CARS ,, THE LOCATIONS ARE STILL AROUND GREAT JOB,, THANKS,...

One of the best movies ever made in the history of time~ Thank you very much for your contribution to Posterity~

That was an awful lot of work to go to these locations and put this all together. Thank you - as a fan of the movie I really enjoyed this!

This is so underrated. What a classic film and gem. Probably one of my favorites from this era. I always thought that the mystery behind the devilish driver of the truck adds so much to the film as much as the other aspects of intensity and suspense. Thanks for the video and shots about this location, then and now. As a Californian, I love that.

Duel & Omega man, my favourite movies as a kid, still are

I remember watching this on TV when I was a young kid. It was on the edge suspense throughout the whole movie.

What a great video about a really fun movie. It's interesting to see what has changed and what hasn't in 52 years. Thanks for posting.

Still one of the Spielberg´s best flick!

One of my favorite movie. And sure love that Plymouth Valiant. I'm glad I was able to see many Valiant models drove around in my days in the '70s up to mid-1980s.

Such a classic iconic film that I first saw when I was a youngster and still watch it yet even at the age of 56, it’s fantastic that most of the places from the film haven’t changed much. I wonder if the car and truck wrecks are still at the bottom of that valley at the end of the film….

That was awesome! Great job. Looks like many Rockford Files episodes were shot in and around that area.

Thank you, this was really cool to watch! Remember watching it when it premiered!!!

I was 12 in 1971. Scared the heck out of me all these years. I had no idea until now that this was a Spielberg movie. How cool!

Loved this. Funny how it looks so much greener nowadays.

I too have been a long time fan of Spielberg's "DUEL" & all it's classic originalities, that have tried to be replicated, but never successfully duplicated in the film & motion picture industry. The video editing, laid out here in linear presentation & the extreme measures taken to capture the same visual routes from 1971, in comparison to "today's" 2023, is purely IMPECCABLE & GENIUS. However, working in the radio broadcast & voice-over industry for my entire professional life & career (1979 to 2019-retired) I feel producer "GP's" two or three, very short & brief voice-over inserts along the video timeline, could have been done in a less "casual" read, but done so with a more prepared script, using a pro-audio microphone; Electrovoice, Sennheiser, Neumann, Shure, etc, running through a voice processor outboard module; kin to the Symetrix 528E or the DBX 286S. That is just my "old school analog audio opinion" on the short audio, narrative inserts. Other than those little toodles, the video chronology produced here was WAY BEYOND, PAR EXCELLENT...!!! BCRadio

Thanks ever so much. I was 12 when this aired originally. Still love it and watch it every couple of years. Plan to visit these locations next year.

Thank you for making this video. This movie is the greatest movie of all time. It's very nostalgic watching this. That road is still closed! Too bad it was private land at the end. That scene is beautiful! I watched this movie for the first time when I was 9 (1979). Scared the shit outta me, lol. 😂

Excellent work! Greetings from Poland.

It must have taken you a lot of effort to make this. What a labor of love. Outstanding...even using the same font! As a Duel fanatic, I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. I saw this as a little kid and it gave me nightmares for years. I still love to watch it and quote every line. So happy to see Chuck's Cafe is still standing. Btw, I play meat.

When I was young in the 80s this was a latenite regular..I ❤ it!

Superb video great to see the filming locations then and now ,i always loved this film Dennis weaver was a great actor a simple film idea that worked and was massively entertaining .

Love this movie and it's interesting how some of has changed and lot of it is still the same. I though it hilarious that the road was closed AGAIN as you drove through! This has to be the first video I've seen that revisits the locations in the movie, great job!

Just subscribed! Thank you for this . Last week, this 52 year old movie arrived from Amazon and I watched it again! I hadn't seen it years and years Classic Spielberg

What a great movie I saw it as a kid, so well made.

As a kid in the 70s. This movie freaked me out a little 😂. Good one.👍

I remember watching this when it first aired on tv, great film.

Great film back in the day and fascinating to see the locations today. Love it, thank you ❤.

Was one of my late sons favorite movies when he was a kid. We watched it together several times....good memories.

I was twelve years old. My parents let me stay up to watch it. I always loved motor vehicles and this has become one my all time favorite movies. This originally aired as an ABC-TV movie. And it's Steven Spielberg's directorial debut.

Well done. I created a show for The CW a few years back called CULT. Evil TV was its theme, and I had transpo find one of these 1971 Plymouths to be the “bad guy’s” car (actually we had two of them). I drove transpo crazy trying to get the car the exact right color. I owned some ranch property up in Agua Dulce for a while and lived very near these locations. Great work. Thanks for the effort. Cheers.

Great movie & awesome video. Thank you.

Born in 1970. I first saw this probably when I was 8 to 10 years old. I've watched it probably 10 times in my life. It seems to get better every time. Great movie!!

Thanks for doing this!! Wow. One of my favourite movies.

Duel is one of my top 10 favs. They really developed that area where the train crossing is, wow! Great video. I also was curious where chuck's cafe was. It was one of my fav scenes.

this movie freaked me out as a kid. excellent use of suspense and fear of the unknown. the music was great too and added immensely to the tension.

Every now and then I find a nugget on You Tube, man, watching this brought me right back to my youth. Awesome job bro.

Loved it. Well done. One of my favorite movies. ✌️

What an incredible video you've made for one of my favourite movies .Kudos!!!

Very well done. Research was exceptional

I love everything about this classic it came out the year I was born..Superb thanks ❤

Brilliant movie and brilliant documentary! I would love to visit the filming spots once and drive along those roads with my motorcycle.

Like many, this is one of my favourite Spielberg compositions. I liked it because of its simplicity, suspense and tension. Film makers have neither the courage nor the expertise to craft a budget time-strict release of this calibre today. Pleased to see most of the original filming locations are still there and the road sides and tunnels remain unchanged. Thank you for doing this, many of us Duel fans live all over the world.

What a fantastic film 🎥 I can watch it over & over…….