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Is that anything like that movie with Dennis Weaver where he's being chased down a hill by a truck-tractor-trailer combination? I think it was called "Duel" or some such like that.

Charles of Schaumburg

No. Very different in development and outcome, though they both start with Driver A pissing off Driver B. "Duel" (S.Spielberg's first, IIRC) is basically a meek guy being chased by a monstrous but faceless enemy. "Dogfight On 101" has an enemy whose nature and capabilities and motivation are clear, and mundane. Though, Ellison being a filmic writer, it does read rather like a film.

FWIW, there was a film made after "Duel" involving a demonic car that picks on hapless drivers on lonely roads: "The Car" I think they called it (clever, wot). Its structure was much more along the lines of a conventional horror flick. Well made, ISTR.

The only reason I know about Duel is I was stuck home in my apartment sick with the flu and that was the only thing I could find that I was REMOTELY interested in. It wasn't until many years later that I found out it was a Speilberg flick.

Charles of Schaumburg.

It could have been a lot worse. Imagine: you could have found yourself stuck with "E.T." or the "Hillary Clinton Story". (I am just guessing, you understand, but suspect either would sit well in your personal notion of Hell. Especially with the flu to add an indefinable _strangeness_ to them.) :-)