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Deliverance
Sign in to saveDeliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to whitewater canoe the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.
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Deliverance is a 1972 American drama and thriller film directed by John Boorman, who also served as producer and co-screenwriter alongside James Dickey. The cast includes Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox. Produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the film was shot in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with narrative locations set in Atlanta and the Appalachian Mountains. Vilmos Zsigmond was the director of photography, Tom Priestley edited the film, and Eric Weissberg composed the score.
The movie has a runtime of 109 minutes and was released in the United States. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. Additionally, the film was recognized by the National Board of Review as one of its Top Ten Films. Its tagline asks, "What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?"
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7.3Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Cast
- Jon Voight as Ed Gentry
- Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock
- Ned Beatty as Bobby Trippe
- Ronny Cox as Drew Ballinger
- Ed Ramey as Old Man at the Gas-Station
- Billy Redden as Lonnie - The Banjo Boy
Themes
- rape
- based on novel or book
- river
- banjo
- strangeness
- wound
- wilderness
- georgia
- canoe
- rafting
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
128,074 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 3 Oscars. 2 wins & 14 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Deliverance
- Film.image
- Deliverance poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
- Film.director
- John Boorman
- Film.producer
- John Boorman
- Film.screenplay
- James Dickey
- Film.cinematography
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Film.editing
- Tom Priestley
- Film.music
- Eric Weissberg
- Film.studio
- Elmer Enterprises
- Film.distributor
- Warner Bros.
- Film.runtime
- 109 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $2 million
- Film.gross
- $46.1 million
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Casting
- Filming
- Stunts
- "Squeal like a pig"
- Soundtrack
- Charts
- Reception
- Commercial
- Critical
- Legacy
- Awards and nominations
- American Film Institute lists
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to whitewater canoe the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.
Deliverance was a critical and commercial success. It earned three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, and grossed $46.1 million on a budget of $2 million. It became a popular culture landmark for a scene featuring Cox's character playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy, and garnered notoriety for a scene in which Beatty's character is brutally raped by a mountain man. In 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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