{"id":1946,"date":"2012-04-17T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T20:01:54","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"Duel. Terror reigns at MovieNight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1959\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1959\" title=\"Dirty mother trucker!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/duel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/duel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/duel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the second of our &#8220;Made for TV&#8221; series (didn&#8217;t know we had one of them going on? Neither did we!), we featured the first movie made by Steven Spielberg, <em>Duel<\/em>. For almost an hour and a half we were kept on seat-edge by the seemingly relentless pursuit of a mild-mannered traveling salesman by an anonymously piloted, filthy, exhaust-spewing and stinky (one must assume) gasoline tanker. Bob deepened her lead in the Successful Suggesters list, but alas, Zofi placed <em>Duel<\/em> firmly atop her &#8220;Worst Movies Ever&#8221; list. Of course we were disappointed that she felt that way but, a round of applause from the front-row-center sofa demonstrated the film&#8217;s appeal to others.<\/p>\n<p>During the &#8220;outing of the cheeses&#8221; part of the program, following the feature, some speculated about the truck as metaphor&#8230; Hey, don&#8217;t look at me! What do I know?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067023\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second of our &#8220;Made for TV&#8221; series (didn&#8217;t know we had one of them going on? Neither did we!), we featured the first movie made by Steven Spielberg, Duel. For almost an hour and a half we were kept on seat-edge by the seemingly relentless pursuit of a mild-mannered traveling salesman by an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duel. Terror reigns at MovieNight.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}