Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Richard Matheson

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 04 Jan 2004


Dick,

Re your comment below:

> I imagine it's been mentioned, but, if not, Matheson
> also wrote
> the script for Steven Spielberg's breakthrough
> project, "Duel,"
> about the hapless motorist who's being chased by a
> homicidal
> trucker.

He also wrote the indentically-titled short story from which the teleplay derived. It was reprinted in one of those BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR anthologies that Dutton used to publish.

JIM DOHERTY

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