a 1971 episode of the NBC television series The Name of the Game. Much of the movie was filmed in and around the communities of Canyon Country, Agua Dulce, and Acton, California. In particular, sequences were filmed on the Sierra Highway, Agua Dulce Canyon Road, Soledad Canyon Road, and Angeles Forest Highway. Many of the landmarks from Duel still exist today, including the tunnel, the railroad crossing, and Chuck's Café, where Mann stops for a break. The café building is still on Sierra Highway, but has housed a French restaurant called Le Chêne since 1980. The cliffs where the truck crashes at the end are Mystery Mesa, off Vasquez Canyon Road. Production of the television film was overseen by ABC's director of movies of the week Lillian Gallo. Filming was completed in thirteen days—three longer than the scheduled—leaving ten days for editing prior to broadcast. Spielberg lobbied for Dennis Weaver to star in the movie because he admired Weaver's work in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Weaver repeats one of his lines from Touch of Evil in Duel, telling the truck driver in the café that he has "another think coming." In an interview by Weaver for the Archive of American Television, Spielberg said, "You know, I watch that movie at least twice a year to remember what I did". Truck as antagonist Matheson's script made it clear that the truck driver would be unseen aside from the few shots of his arms and boots that were necessary to the plot. Specifically, the driver's arms are shown twice, motioning Mann ahead, and his snakeskin boots are shown in the gas station scene near the beginning of the film. His motives are never revealed. In a DVD documentary feature, Spielberg observes that fear of the unknown is perhaps the greatest fear of all, and Duel plays heavily to that fear; the effect of not seeing the driver makes the real antagonist of the film the truck itself. Vehicles The car driven by Mann is a red Plymouth Valiant. Three cars were used in production. One was a 1970 model with a 318 V-8 engine. It had PLYMOUTH spelled out across the hood (though the brand name was covered with aluminum foil for the movie), as well as a trunk lid treatment characteristic of the 1970 model. A 1971 model with a 225 Slant Six was also used. and a modified 1972