Deliverance
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Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
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| Directed by | John Boorman |
| Produced by | John Boorman |
| Screenplay by |
James Dickey Uncredited: John Boorman |
| Based on |
Deliverance by James Dickey |
| Starring |
Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox |
| Music by |
Eric Weissberg Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Edited by | Tom Priestley |
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Elmer Productions
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $46.1 million |
Deliverance is a 1972 American drama 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 film is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the film as the Sheriff. The screenplay was written by Dickey and an uncredited Boorman. It was a critical success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations.
Widely acclaimed as a landmark picture, the film is noted both for the music scene near the beginning, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-playing country boy, that sets the tone for what lies ahead—a trip into unknown and potentially dangerous wilderness—and for its visceral and notorious male rape scene. In 2008, Deliverance was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Four Atlanta men, Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds), Ed Gentry (Jon Voight), Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox), decide to canoe down a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Lewis and Ed are experienced outdoorsmen, while Bobby and Drew are novices. While traveling to their launch site, the men (Bobby in particular) are condescending towards the locals, who are unimpressed by the "city boys".
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