Duel: Collector's Edition — Fledgling filmmaker Steven Spielberg made this 1971 made-for-TV movie thriller under absurdly intense conditions. Based on a Richard Matheson short story published in Playboy earlier the same year, Spielberg filmed it on location in little more than three weeks – yet emerged with a tense, influential masterpiece, a dry run (on dry land) for Jaws four years later. Dennis Weaver plays a meek driver of a passenger car targeted, inexplicably yet homicidally, by the driver of a monstrous-looking truck rig on a lengthy stretch of desolate road.  One of the best telemovies ever made, and a clear indication of just how talented and innovative Spielberg was, and would become. — DB