Anyone remember a movie from 1971 called "Duel?" It starred Dennis Weaver as a traveling salesman, who while driving on a business trip, ends up being chased by a semi-truck which the driver of cannot be seen? The truck is always showing up behind him, trying to kill him, no matter what he does to try and lose it. It was Steven Spielberg's directorial debut.
Yes, that movie and this movie both masterpiece but "Duel" was more entertaining. Only one mistake in Duel and that was by showing a human arm indicating to overtake.
1974, I would love to go back if only for just a little while, I would hold my parents so tight. And just tell them over and over how much I love them.
My Dad drove a D8 Cat when I was a kid. So when this movie came on tv I was so excited. I remember he rolled his eyes and shook his head pretty much all the way through it. A real classic! LOL.
He shaking? Shaking his head? Ur dad was scared too! Scared as fu@k! I’m still scared of dozers! Terrified to be honest. Did you dad stop driving he D-8, after this movie? I was to panicked to even travel in a car again! Especially yellow ones then none at all!
I remember watching this on TV in the 70's after coming in from playing outside in one of the biggest snow drifts I've experienced in my life, when I was about 10 years old. Never forget that time and never forgot that movie. Thank you very much for posting this, brings back a lot of memories.
I am originally from Cleveland and I remember the exact same thing. Playing in a huge snow drift until it was pitch dark and it was time to come inside. After warming up, this movie was on "The Movie of The Week". Great memories...
D-8s were fairly common way back then but D-9s were much more rare to see in real life. Always loved the fact that it was the largest dozer of that era. That northwest shovel is a badass for its time to. Brings me back to my love of heavy equipment and youthful fascination with all things mechanized 👍saw this when I was 10 years old in 74 and never forgot it. THANKS FOR POSTING THIS CLASSIC FILM
I remember watching this on tv in the 80s and talking about it with a few pals at junior school the following Monday, we had all loved it. Yeah old Killdozer was slow, but sneaky too. It’s like one of those dreams where you’re trying to run away from danger but your legs are just numb.
Yeah, unlike The Car and such, it’s more of a hybrid of KITT and Christine. I say hybrid because Christine is vengeful, KITT isn’t even evil. The dozer isn’t either of those things. It’s not a rabid animal, it’s a cold, calculating killer. It plans, makes contingencies, you can almost tell what it’s thinking. If it were to possess something faster like one of the jeeps, it would be a real threat.
I had a dream recently I was trapped in a huge pile of broken mirror glass shards.. it was all in my skin packed together , so much my skin could not be seen, I was trying to crawl out and scream for help. I couldn't move ,couldn't breath , I remember becoming fucking furious because I could not get out or make enough noise to get help!!! I woke up , still unable to move or breathe and the transition to being awake was so damn slow it was as if I was still paralyzed. I think it was a case of sleep paralysis , it happens more and more often in different ways.
This movie does the impossible and not only makes an evil bulldozer NOT stupid, but also makes it a rather intimidating threat. Its smart, its toying with you, and it knows you cant stop it. Its the big kid in the sandbox and you have nowhere to run. I friggin LOVE how well they did this film!
Yeah, the overall plot is dumb. It’s silly, but the way it’s handled here is quite serious. What the movie has going for it though, is everything else. All the dialogue feels real, this feels like an actual operation to build an base camp for oil drilling. It feels industrial. The slow soundtrack reflects such. The bulldozer is also frightening. Not what is does, in that case it’s a little pathetic, but the fact that it’s less of a The Car and more of a Christine-KITT hybrid. It’s not a rabid animal, it’s a cold, calculating killer. It plans, it has contingencies, it counter-attacks, it’s something that, if possessed the right thing, would be a real threat.
This movie is awesome! I remember watching it back when we had only three channels, and TV went off air with the national anthem. I saw this as one of the late features on what they called, The Night Owl.
Gander Stein I often wondered why Clint Walker never became bigger than John Wayne in the 70s, but I guess fighting killer bullbozers, snowbeasts and werewolves doomed him.
Yeah....I remember those good old days too....In fact, I remember the good old days of radio only .... sigh The country was a better place to live in then ... today it is a psychotic and chaotic circus
I worked and retired from Caterpillar Inc. machining and handling parts for dozers. I was 30 years old when this movie came out, and never saw this movie till now!
Saw this movie when I was like 3 years old. Had a nightmare that I was chased by the thing and I could not escape. After I told my grandpa, he put me in the bucket of his tractor, and kept dumping me out on the wood shaving pile, then scooping me back up again. Freaked me the hell out, and still loving every minute of the memory. You can't buy that kind of upbringing nowadays. ^_^ Thanks Grandpa!
When I was a kid, I couldn't even come across a damn bulldozer without freaking out because of this movie. Now that I watch as an adult I find it quite hilarious.
omg...I LOVE these 70's films...and yes, the quality was damn good for the age of the film and the best part, NO annoying ads every 4 seconds popping up! Thanks so much for the upload!
That Clint Walker sure was a good looking man, then and when he got older--aged like a fine wine. I don't remember seeing this when it came out, and for years I thought it was about the guy that got mad at his town council, and took it out on them using an old bulldozer that he welded steel plates to, turning it into a tank. LOL, boy was I wrong! Plus, not sure if this movie falls into the category of sci-fi or horror. Not Academy Award material, but a good enough movie to hold your attention. Thanks for posting it.
Saw this when I was 12 years old and it scared the HELL out of me. I had nightmares for weeks about that poor slob being crushed in that culvert tube. It's laughable now, but back then...Thanks for the upload and the great memories.
I read the book that this movie is based on back when I was a kid. Maybe I was in the fifth grade. It's called "Killdozer!", and is included in a collection of stories called "The Golden Age of Science Fiction." This movie leaves a lot of the story out, like the foreword describing the ancient civilization that went to war with the very same entity that infested and took over the D7. Described it as some kind of electromagnetic entity that had the ability to control simple machinery. And how it, and other entities like it, were responsible for the destruction of the pre-flood civilization. One of the energy beings had been imprisoned inside of a structure made of an odd black stone, which happens to be on the island where these poor bastards are working. They accidentally dig it up and set the thing loose, and... well... things get ugly. I think the book is actually set in the time of World War II, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean on some remote island. These guys are contractors that are building an Airfield for the Navy or something. Also, the crazy guy becomes a sycophantic little follower of the killdozer. And the Dozer actually had a name. Daisy Etta, as I recall. The author also described a couple other pieces of equipment. Something called a "dumptor," kind of a fast off road dump truck. The Ambush scene is almost like it is in the book. If my memory serves me correctly, the Dozer was parked up on the side of a steep hill and just allowed itself to roll forward in neutral. It wasn't even running. The portrayal of the D7 is kind of ridiculous. That Dozer is a whole hell of a lot faster than in this movie. Travel track speed one of those things is about 12 miles an hour, more than fast enough to catch a man on foot. Definitely another example of the book being far better than the movie. This is still a pretty cool movie though.
I remember watching this movie when it was aired. I never have forgotten it. Watching it again makes me think that the production of movies back then were primitive. The people who were part of writing and producing this movie also were part of Star Trek.
I never wanted to be a Red Shirt on Star Trek. When Captain Kirk wanted to go on a off ship mission, you always knew that anyone wearing any other color shirt would survive.
This movie haunted my dreams as a 13-year-old, but rewatching it now for a nostalgia, a realize that pretty much NOTHING HAPPENS! Just lots of close-ups of worried guys' faces.
@@user-gs6uu4rk6z They are both dozers, right? They both tried to kill people, right? Lastly, they were both controlled by demonic extraterrestrial forces, right? As long as 2 of these criteria are met, then they are related.
I always remembered this from being a kid. All I could recall was a blue light and possessed vehicles. No idea what it was called , I was only about 5 or 6 when I saw it. Thanks for uploading this vague childhood memory.
Saw this as a snot-nosed kid of sixteen on tv and I haven't seen it since. Loved the story and loved the movie then. What star power, famous tv faces here: Carl Betz, Clint Walker, Neville Brand, Robert Ulrich, and more.
Man, this movie is amazing so far: all the actors are just awesome, the music is pretty cool, the retro-sounding noises and beeps that emanate from the strange object; and later the tractor itself, and the story is just keeping me so entertained. Thanks a lot uploader 👍🏼😎🤘🏼 Now to see how this movie progresses...
YES!!! : D I looked for this movie FOREVER, but I couldn't find it anywhere! THANKS a million for posting this! : D It's an all time classic! *thumbs up*
This is a classic TV movie Remember watching this on ITV in the 1980s. With great suspense and tension. With the great CLINT WALKER who would also star in the Great TV movie SNOWBEAST. Lots of these TV movies from the 1970s tend to be more entertaining than the big budget films of that period.
I can tell you that I HATE the concept of self-driving automobiles, and anything that operates by itself for that matter. But THIS! THIS is something I want in my collection!
This movie melted my brain back in '74, man! Some other fun 70's movies are: Duel, Gargoyles, Trilogy Of Terror, I Drink Your Blood, and Tales From The Crypt(1972)
Me too. I saw it day/night one. I was only 8 and a serous Horror movies fan. I remember yelling at the tv...."Use electricity to kill it!!!!"...,😂 Horror movies back then hardly ever let the good guy win.
I saw this show on Project Terror years ago. I forgot most of it, and I thought they were going to dig a big hole to make it fall in. Great movie. Thanks for sharing.
Remember watching this on its premiere night when I was 10 years old. What I didn't realize is that this was written by Theodore Sturgeon based on one of his novellas. Sturgeon was one of the greats of science fiction in those days and he wrote the key Star Trek episode which brought mysterious Vulcan culture to life: Amok Time.
Really good picture quality!! What a blast from the past. I saw it with folks as a kid, we would all come runnin back in from the kitchen to not miss a scene, we were hooked. Thx.
There is something so unique about the way all these movies started during that era with the opening credits. It was so ambient, organic, silent and it had a certain darkness to it!!!!
better then to day where you see a film full of cheesey 2022 sound effects, endless boring idiotic talking and occasionally an action scene where people slowly get chased and die.
I remember around 1976, this movie was announced it was going to be shown on one of the 3 TV channels we got, and I begged my parents to let me watch it, and they did (Dad usually had control of the TV). But watching it now, well, my Dad is gone, so I can't apologize to him for putting him through this cinema hell, but I will see my Mother for Christmas. She must have been traumatized for all these years, and held it in. hehehehe
I remember my grandma telling me she saw this movie come out in early 1974 she had her 26 birthday that year and recalls seeing it at the movies. she's not that big into horror films but "kill dozer" she would make an exception. that same year in 1974 the television series " happy days" first aired, its a comedy series that is set in the late 1950s and depicts the life Richie Cunningham the main character and his family. but both I think are really great television and movies, am still looking for these classic horror films from the 1970s and 1980s because you can never find the classics anymore so lets hope RU-vid still has the full version available like this film with no- cuts.
thats what is werid about this movie he just wanted to go back to work, business as usual as if nothing happened. then of course the bulldozor is running around and they aer in their tents sleeping without anyone staying watch, another guy dies and it is business as usual. I would be like send the police at the first death, that way they can see the dozor in motion without a operator too. and hear the funny buzzing too. now how would you explain this after th ething is dead? something tells me if they had continued the movie they are trying ti explain this thing they would end up in eternal mental insitution for the rest of their life.
@@joespitler3929 off the coast of Africa with a supply boat their only hope or means of contact after the radio was squished. That was the whole point. The army could've been called in if it was anywhere near civilisation.
Me too, I saw it as a TV movie when it was first broadcast. I was a young teen and it freaked me out a bit. I remember being scared of the Manson family also when I was a kid after the murders happened. Watching this now it’s ridiculous but I still like the Sci Fi synthesizer audio effects used when they showed the dozer. It was well done for the time period. I understand it now has a cult folllowing.
Watched this when it aired in 74, I was nine, but I still remember this movie like I saw it yesterday. I think it scared me enough, that it still stands out in my mind.
I can't believe this has been put on youtube! About 27 years ago I saw this and I had nightmares for weeks.. (I was 7).. Never forgot it and had an odd phobia of construction vehicles since. Was just telling my other half and googled it for ages to get the name and came here... Awesome upload.
This is one of those made for TV movies that would replay sometime every year in the early 70's. TV viewing was different back then, and so was the audience.
He was no patriot. He was an a-hole and psycholoon. Don't behind all the BS that the alt right say about him. He was never isolated and all the problems he had were of his own doing, because he was stupid and crazy.
Thanks for uploading this classic! I only saw this movie once and that was in 1974 when it was made for TV. At that time it was a unique concept in movie making and it wasnt until "Christine" in 1983 that you saw another evil being inhabit a machine. "Killer Klowns From Outerspace" and "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" were fun also.
This movie was pretty good..The scenes where the driverless dozer shifts the gears by itself is good, but the scenes where the blade is raised and you can't see the guy operating it could have been better. Always wondered how it refueled itself. Better not to think about these things when you're watching a movie like this.
When this came out, there was a guy in our neighborhood who started keeping a bulldozer like this one on the vacant lot. Whenever it got dark, us kids refused to take that street home. For kicks, we would psych each other out by saying we heard it hum or we heard it start up! Fun times !!
Has some funny parts.Nobody ever made a generator with an open knife switch or a diesel that would cold start instantly.And nobody could beat that genius suggestion at the end....Let's fake a landslide !! With everything destroyed and strewn across the island?? Not sure what they were getting ready to drill for but wouldn't they drill first and then build roads if they find something of value????
I absolutely remember watching this on tv back in 1974. Was the ripe old age of 8 years old . I'd turn 9 that October. Weird how I remember this movie all these years later
Richard Hyde hey do you remember the Andy Griffith movie where be builds a homemade spaceship and goes to the moon? would have come out late seventies early eighties I'm guessing.
I actually remember watching this film on TV in the mid 70's, and probably remembered it so well, because it was such an odd concept for a story, for a alien life force to take over a bulldozer. Makes you wonder about the day, someone went into a TV execs office and proposed this story, and the reaction they got. Anyway its a very good film!
The invisable operator was in the box built behind the seat. Nothing on a Cat there but a fuel tank and they probably used a smaller tank and packed a small operator in there. What a deal.
I remember as a kid thinking this was hilarious and it still is today but with ClintWalker and the rest of the actors they make it a fun movie to watch. Most of the70's TV movies of the week kill anything made today and even this one is better.
This movie got me into reading science fiction. Theodore Sturgeon, the author of Killdozer, wrote a lot of sci-fi. If you ever get the chance to read his short story "Slow Sculptures" it is my favorite
Being Clint was a personal friend of mine he was around 40 something he was born in 1927 rest. In being a close friend thanks for listening you rest in peace Norman I'll see you farther down the road Albert wood your brother in Christ
This was shot at Indian Dunes near Magic Mountain in Valencia Ca. That's where the Twilight Zone's helicopter crash killed Vic Morrow and the two little kids. Anyone remember the motorcycle park that used to be there? Great memories!
