Double Feature
Duel
Steven Spielberg directs Duel, a high-velocity thriller about a motorist terrorized by an evil truck. As Spielberg’s first full-length movie, Duel helped jumpstart the director’s big-screen career, with a gripping, action-packed story hailed by critics as a film that “belongs on the classics shelf reserved for top suspensers” (Dailey Variety). Dennis Weaver stars as the traveling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out. Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological tension, Duel features one of the most uniquely terrifying “characters” in movie history: a massive, roaring, 40-ton truck with sheer menace. (Universal Studios)
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- Richard Matheson
- Starring
- Dennis Weaver
- Year
- 1971
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 90 minutes
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express, a gripping drama co-written and directed by a 26-year-old Steven Spielberg, makes its mark as the director’s first theatrical film debut. Based on a true story, a desperate mother (Goldie Hawn) attempts to reunite her family by any means necessary including helping her husband escape prison, kidnapping a Texas state trooper and leading the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption. Winning the hearts of many fans that followed her story on the news, this film conveys the true story of a girl who took on all of Texas… and almost won. (Universal Studios)
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- Screenplay by Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins, Story by Steven Spielberg and Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins
- Starring
- Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton
- Year
- 1974
- Rated
- PG
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 110 minutes