poster folded Steven Spielberg's DUEL 1971 ORIGINAL 27x41 INTERNATIONAL HTF Rare

Description: Written by sci-fi icon, RICHARD MATHESON, this INTERNATIONAL Style Original Folded Theater one sheet poster (27 inches x 41 inches) was sent to film cinemas, in envelopes for marketing purposes. Condition is GOOD+ to VERY GOOD. An unrestored poster that displays very well with good color and a very presentable age-appropriate appearance. The poster shows general signs of use like light edge wear, minor fold wear, pinholes, chips, minor border tears, creases, unobtrusive smudges, scuffs, minute cross fold separation. A minor two inch tear along the bottom border partially reaches into the brown border. See Photo. FAST & SAFE DELIVERY. DUEL 1971. Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG, Written by RICHARD MATHESON. TAGLINES : "A DUEL is about to begin between a man, a truck, and an open road. Where a simple battle of wits is now a matter of life and death" "You are in the driver's seat for 100 minutes of cold-sweat suspense!" "Dennis Weaver in the ultimate highway NIGHTMARE!" "DUEL on The highway of SUDDEN DEATH!" "A man...a car...and 10 tons of rolling death right behind them" "Fear is the driving force!"- A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. While traveling through the desert for an appointment with a client, the businessman David Mann from California passes a slow and old tanker truck. The psychotic truck driver feels offended and chases David along the empty highway trying to kill him. CAST includes Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, Lucille Benson, Gene Dynarski, Charles Seel, Tim Herbert, Carey Loftin. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : According to Richard Matheson, he was inspired to write the original short story "Duel" after an encounter with a tailgating truck driver on November 22, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. When Carey Loftin, playing the truck driver, asked Steven Spielberg what his motivation was for tormenting the car's driver, Spielberg told him, "You're a dirty, rotten, no-good son of a bitch." Loftin replied, "Kid, you hired the right man." Spielberg praised how the truck was handled in an exceptionally safe manner by 50 year old stunt driver Carey Loftin. Although it appears the truck is driving at a recklessly unsafe speed along the winding California roads, it is actually not going more than 30 mph. To get the sense of increased speed, Spielberg borrowed the specially-made camera car from the 1968 Steve McQueen thriller Bullitt (1968), which could lower the camera to only six inches off the ground. Spielberg also filmed the vehicles against a background of cliffs which, when combined with an upward angled perspective from the wheels, created an optical illusion of much faster speed. During the chase, a parked sedan resembling a squad car is seen, briefly raising Dennis Weaver's hopes, but it turns out to be a service car for a pest exterminator named Grebleips, "Spielberg" spelled backwards. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you.

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