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Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name.
Aug 18, 1972 · With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
For four urban explorers, a weekend of male bonding in the Appalachian backwoods turns into a fight for survival against nature and the brutality of man.
In a burst of savagery that surely influenced exploitative horror movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, Deliverance turns a camping holiday into a life and death struggle. Not everyone will survive and those that do have to stick together when the authorities start asking questions.
Four city-dwelling friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) decide to get away from their jobs, wives and kids for a week of canoeing in rural Georgia.
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On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk. — Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net> Synopsis.
Deliverance. In the Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. The only escape is a through a terrifying canoe ride down a raging river. Starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.
James Dickey's "Deliverance" also is the story of a "worst journey." Four city slickers from Atlanta decide to take a canoe trip down a river that will soon be flooded out to make a lake. One of the four is big on the old machismo.
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Intent 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. James Dickey. Novel, Screenplay.
