The film was released for limited release and video on demand on june 24, 2016, by lionsgate premiere. Then at the end when they say nobody was in the town including marisol, they had either all fled when they knew what happened, or more likely they were all killed and the town destroyed to get rid of any evidence of its existence. Its not entirely forgettable, yet in our current world where even big stars dont sell movie tickets, the duel had to have something more in order to really be successful. Duel filming locations agua dulce, acton, and canyon county california dart oil rig road rage dennis weaver. Duel 1971 is a horror, thriller movie made for tv by steven spielberg jaws. Much of the movie was filmed in and around the communities of canyon country, agua dulce, and acton, california. The film calls it a helena duel, named after the texas town where this opening sequence takes.
Five movie ranches to visit this summer after watching. Jodie comer takes break from filming drama the last duel in. Duel movie filming locations agua dulce, acton, and canyon. The duel 2016 16 1h 49m dramas in 1866, a texas ranger investigates some suspicious deaths in a town ruled by a religious despot whose past contains a disturbing link to his own. Apr 08, 2016 thrillers like steven spielbergs duel 1971 or action films like mad max.
Duel was spielbergs second featurelength directing effort, after his 1971 the name of the game nbc television series episode l. Yet, those aforementioned films still embrace the outside world, if even in small measure, and are in various ways commentaries on the outside world. A texas ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called helena. The duel was released in 2016 on friday, june 24, 2016 in limited movie theaters. Duel the best bits of film trivia the tanker driver was. Duel makes brilliant use of its simple premise, serving up rocksolid genre thrills while heralding the arrival of a generational talent behind the lens.
Menacing 1960 peterbilt from truck movie duel rolling back onstage. The helena duel between protagonist david kingston liam hemsworth and antagonist isaac brant emory cohen was staged in front of the fictional hotel hidalgo, which is the actual surname of the actress portraying general calderons captured niece maria, momentarily listed as kimberly daugherty despite truly established and widely known as kim. Hamilton director thomas kail also directed the recording, which was filmed some time in 2016 when the original cast members were still in their roles. The duel stars liam hemsworth as a texas ranger who investigates a series of. Oct 12, 2014 duel 1971 i have seen steven spielbergs first film, duel, a number of times and it still holds up really well, maybe moreso in our era of road rage. Huntsman center at the university of utah, snow canyon country club, murray, st. Duel the best bits of film trivia the tanker driver. Jun 27, 2016 filmed on location at the former site of florewood state park in upstate mississippi, the anamorphic picture is filmed with a steady handheld style and earthly tones. Jun 08, 2016 the movie was filmed in east high school in salt lake city, murray high school, jon m. Get the imdb app get the imdb app view full site help site. Everything you need to know about the duel movie 2016. The final cliff scene in duel was filmed at cruzan mesa. Two men have chosen to fight to the death using the exact same method shown in michael jackson s beat it video.
Moments later, the truck dangerously tailgates weaver before. Walt, a downonhis luck carpenter, is tasked with entertaining his eightyearold son anthony while anthonys mom and her new husband are away. Muddled yet scenic, draggy yet periodically violent, duel is one unclear western. Feb 07, 20 duel filming locations agua dulce, acton, and canyon county california dart oil rig road rage dennis weaver. You get spielbergs first film, actually a tv movie, the suspenseful duel 1971, featuring dennis weaver dragnet, gunsmoke being pursued by a psychotic truck driver. Duel is a 1971 american action thriller film written by richard matheson, which is based on his own short story. Nov 16, 2016 the oxbow duel in the sun incident 1943 with the exception of its opening sequences, the oxbow incident was shot almost entirely with painted backdrops and artificially created light and shadow. We provide 2016 movie release dates, cast, posters, trailers and ratings. The film stars liam hemsworth, emory cohen, woody harrelson and alice braga.
The technicolor film stars jennifer jones, joseph cotten, gregory peck, lillian. Inferno bad santa 2 gods of egypt london has fallen. I think this was the original sierra highway running parallel to the southern pacific between lang and acton before us 6 was built further north. Apr, 2020 the duel 2016 lionsgate by 2016, hemsworth had decided to start flexing his way into different movie worlds, and that meant taking a shot at westerns in the duel. The confirmation 2016 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. If the director wouldve shaved off 15 to 20 minutes this wouldve been a better movie. The movie was filmed in east high school in salt lake city, murray high school, jon m. Five movie ranches to visit this summer after watching the duel. The film is based on a short story of the same name by novelist richard matheson i am legend. I went there this past sunday 04232017, awesome see that a lot is still the same. It is the feature fulllength directorial debut of american director, producer, and screenwriter steven spielberg, and is distributed by universal pictures dennis weaver portrays david mann, a business commuter from california driving a plymouth valiant while on his way to meet a. The movie opens with a ritualized knife fight in the mud, and before the duel even begins its obvious that the preacher is going to win, because his gaze tells you that he has the will to kill.
It is the feature fulllength directorial debut of american director, producer, and screenwriter steven spielberg, and is distributed by universal pictures. Xlrator media released wrecker to cinemas on november 6 and on video on demand on november 10, 2016. The oxbow duel in the sun incident 1943 with the exception of its opening sequences, the oxbow incident was shot almost entirely with painted. Disney channel film high school musical was filmed at east. This is the russian third feature film produced using the imax format. She is a seriously indemand actress working on two highly anticipated projects.
The duel 2016 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The films success enabled spielberg to establish himself as a film director. The duel 2016 cast and crew a texas ranger liam hemsworth investigates a series of murders in an old west town thats run by a former confederate officer woody harrelson. It was released in russia on september 29, 2016 in full imax an adventure film, with dramatic and thriller elements set against the. The duel 2016, woody harrelson it looks like 2016 is the year of the western because the duel is a brand new one that stars the hunger games costars liam hemsworth and woody harrelson for this particular movie, ive made the decision to look way beyond the highly questionable choice of trailer music and dig down deep in hopes for the best.
But it does make you want to see woody harrelson get another movie worthy of his leering bald nietzschean. Le chene, 12625 sierra highway, southern california chucks cafe, the truckstop at which a frazzled mann tries to pick out the seemingly psychotic driver, looks much the same but has been transformed into an upmarket french restaurant. The set used to film the western, the duel is still intactyou should visit greenwood, ms and see it and see the homes featured in the helpalso filmed in greenwood. Fury road 2015 do try to limit the experience to being only inside the car as it rolls from here to there. The duel is an entertaining period film about keeping law in the old west. Anton chekhovs the duel is a 2010 film directed by dover kosashvili. Disney is bringing linmanuel mirandas hamilton to movie. While setjetting some other locales, i decided to check out some of the main locations seen in the film. Just a heads up, trying to go the plato, if you take sierra hwy and turn on arline st to try to get to 342807. Two men have chosen to fight to the death using the exact same method shown in michael jacksons beat it video. When a mexican generals nephew is found murdered in the rio grande river texas ranger david kingston is tasked with. Jun 24, 2016 the shallows is an 87minute thriller set mostly in a lagoon where an injured surfer is battling a shark. Its the ultimate road rage movie well before the term was even coined.
Overall, this is a movie that had promise, but subpar acting and a feeling that it did not know which plot point should receive the most attention weakened the film. Peterbilt tanker from movie duel on farm near lincolnton. I think she was either drugged poisoned or to get the fever that abraham predicted and brainwashed just like the others in the community. There were 11 other movies released on the same date, including independence day resurgence. The film stars pyotr fyodorov, vladimir mashkov, and yulia khlynina. He has a brother named kang ho who is known as a diehard detective. And jodie comer enjoyed a relaxing break from filming historical drama the last duel in the south of france on. The duel promises a battle of wits and wills, then turns into a violent grabbag. However, the duels biggest strength outside of darcysmiths beautiful landscapes is harrelson as the snakehandling abraham. Despite promising elements of mixedgenre thrills, the film is finally the. It was released on dvd and bluray on august 23, 2016. With woody harrelson, liam hemsworth, alice braga, emory cohen.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Movie locations and more will still exist, but visit for the most up to date filming locations. This movie was filmed in greenwood, mississippi, the same small town in which the help 2011 was filmed. Given davids foolishness and abrahams flamboyancy, its no surprise that mr. In the duel, woody harrelson plays some sort of lethally. Duel in the sun nicknamed lust in the dust is a 1946 american psychological western film directed by king vidor, produced and written by david o. It cant be accessed from vasquez canyon road but it can be accessed from plum canyon fire road to the south. The duel wants to build to a feverish heart of darkness. Poong ho is a real fighter and secondincommand gangster as well as a job seeker and a household nuisance at home. Harrelson, head shaved and dressed in white, so thoroughly dominates the duel. Theres not much plot beyond that, and what little the movie tries to add doesnt make it richer.
Dennis harvey of variety called the film a lowbudget ripoff of duel that suffers for the absence of both dennis weaver and the expected exploitative content. The film is an adaptation of an 1891 novella by anton chekhov, the duel. Below is just a small selection of credits for what has been filmed photographed in the area. In one of the first major greenlights since acquiring fox, disney is moving forward with ridley scotts period drama the last duel, dating the film for dec. This modal can be closed by pressing the escape key or activating the close button. Duel 1971 film wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Set in a seaside resort in the caucasus, the story centers on laevsky andrew scott, an aristocratic civil servant, and his mistress nadya fiona glascott, whom laevsky is trying to abandon. Always a hairs breadth away from being decidedly unchristian, harrelson is the perfect foil to hemsworth as the ranger who begins to succumb to the violence that permeates his new home. Liam hemsworth stars as a texas ranger who squares off against a dangerous priest played by woody harrelson in the duel. Thrillers like steven spielbergs duel 1971 or action films like mad max. In this tv movie, dennis weaver is driving down a deserted southern california highway when he passes a large gas trailer truck. The duel is a 2016 american western film directed by kieran darcysmith and written by matt cook. It first aired on may 30, 2016 and stars malachi kirby, forest whitaker, anna paquin, laurence fishburne, jonathan rhys meyers, anika noni rose, t. May 07, 2016 this movie was shot in less than two weeks.
Ridley scotts the last duel with ben affleck, matt damon. It was filmed in two weeks as an abc movie of the week by an unknown director named steven spielberg. Roots is a 2016 american miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on alex haleys 1976 novel, roots. The film calls it a helena duel, named after the texas town where this opening sequence takes place. Selznick, which tells the story of a mestiza halfnative american girl who goes to live with her white relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. The film is based on a short story of the same name by novelist richard matheson i. Western movies 2016 every western movie coming out in 2016. Tuolumne county has a rich film history starting back in the beginning of films development.
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