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  2. Duel (1971 film) - Wikipedia

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    November 13, 1971 (1971-11-13) Duel is a 1971 American road action-thriller [ 1 ][ 2 ] television film directed by Steven Spielberg. It centers on a traveling salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) driving his car through rural California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a semi-truck.

  3. The Sugarland Express - Wikipedia

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    The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical film directing debut, following the television film Duel (1971). [3] The film follows a woman (Goldie Hawn) and her husband (William Atherton) as they take a police officer (Michael Sacks) hostage and flee across Texas while they try to get to their child before he is placed in foster care.

  4. Peterbilt 281 - Wikipedia

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    A model 281 was prominently featured in the made-for-TV movie Duel, directed by 23-year-old Steven Spielberg, [2] in 1971. [1] When the film was released theatrically in overseas markets, additional scenes were filmed in order to lengthen it to 90-minute feature length. These additional scenes were shot with a Peterbilt 351, modified to match ...

  5. The Seven-Ups - Wikipedia

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    The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American neo-noir mystery action thriller film [3] produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni.It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of the Seven-Ups, a squad of plainclothes officers who use dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecution, hence the name of the team.

  6. Film crew - Wikipedia

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    Film crew. A film crew is a group of people, hired by a production company, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. The crew is distinguished from the cast, as the cast are understood to be the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. The crew is also separate from the producers, as ...

  7. Deliverance - Wikipedia

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    Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel of the same name. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to see the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed , only to find ...

  8. The Duellists - Wikipedia

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    The Duellists is a 1977 British historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and produced by David Puttnam.Set in France during the Napoleonic Wars, the film focuses on a series of duels between two rival officers, the obsessive Bonapartist Gabriel Feraud (played by Harvey Keitel) and aristocratic Armand d'Hubert (Keith Carradine), that spans nearly 20 years and reflects the political tumult ...

  9. List of American films of 1971 - Wikipedia

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    George Englund (director); Joe Massot, Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Phil Proctor (screenplay); John Rubinstein, Pat Quinn, Don Johnson, Country Joe and the Fish, Elvin Jones, Doug Kershaw, William Challee, Dick Van Patten, The James Gang, White Lightnin', The New York Rock Ensemble. 24. The Music Lovers.