I was in the Navy when I first saw this movie aboard ship. Never have I seen so much squirming in seats by so many men. No maniacs in masks, no undead killers and no CGI. And it scares. That's how good movies are made.

@DesertRat332

2 ай бұрын

Same here. USN 1971-1975.

Not just a classic movie, but a slow burn suspense film as well. An absolute must see for anyone who loves movies.

@seancourtney9021

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. And so scary, for me, that I only watched it once, lol!

@machbaby

Жыл бұрын

Incredible casting. The cinematography was amazing. A true classic.

@alerey4363

Жыл бұрын

" An absolute must see for anyone who loves his ass integrity"

@brianpinion5844

Жыл бұрын

id never heard of it until i moved to ohio from ky and it seams only thing people know about ky up there is this movie, give us a bad rap !!!!!! we aint banging sisters , cousins yes but...but....later

@rk-ve6jy

Жыл бұрын

Any similar(slow adventure horror) movies like this ?

One thing that people may not notice is there is pretty much zero background music the entire movie , just a few scenes . It adds a huge amount of tension and realism to so many of the scenes .

@webleypug

Жыл бұрын

It was a very smart movie. We saw events almost entirely only through the eyes of the canoeists. Was the guy played by R. Cox shot or not? They can't decide. Did they kill the right guy standing on the cliff, or didn't they? When Beatty's character notices that the corpse's teeth look different & asks Voight's character if he shot the right guy, Voight shoves the corpse in Beatty's face & demands "You tell me!" The guys who fought in Vietnam could no doubt relate. They really didn't know who the enemy was.

@seancourtney9021

Жыл бұрын

interesting. had forgotten

@MichaelRei99

Жыл бұрын

Well everyone that watched this video knows it.

@DustinDustin00

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it makes it feel like it's the first "found footage" genre.

@spuddy4845

Жыл бұрын

like when i was glued to mel Gibson's apocalypto and didn't realise no one spoke a word in the entire movie, wow so good

I rented this once, thinking it would be an adventure movie. Boy, was I in for a surprise.

@JoBloOriginals

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes

@shadowaccount

Жыл бұрын

Yes, same with me and Brokeback Mountain . A good ol fashioned Cowboy Adventure that I watched with my Grandpa.

@motionoftheocean7524

Жыл бұрын

@@shadowaccount wholesome.

@BobRobsstrikesagain

Жыл бұрын

@@shadowaccount Oh Boy 😅

@conformistbastard9842

Жыл бұрын

One of those adventures that stays with you, forever.

This movie is more entertaining than just that scene. The paddling down the river and Dueling Banjos were awesome moments.

@WaterborneCamper

Жыл бұрын

It was a great trip, up until they met those 2 in the woods! lol

@AbstractM0use

Жыл бұрын

The whole movie is good.

@bl8388

Жыл бұрын

It is, but that man-getting-raped scene sure is the attention hog of the film. Pun intended.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

@@WaterborneCamper You mean Ben&Dover??? L0L

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

@@bl8388 SQUEAL!!!!!!

I saw Deliverance in 1972. I was 15 and I was petrified. It absolutely falls into the Horror genre. One of the best movies ever made. I ran right out and bought the 45 and played it to death. Thanks for posting!!

@user-ms4ef8xz9t

Жыл бұрын

I still have my 45 of it too.

@dfgalvin

Жыл бұрын

I was the same age and since it was rated R I needed an accompanying adult to get in. So I had my mom take me and a friend. We made her sit in a different row of course but imagine watching that scene with your mom in the room. Yike.

@KaBoomChannel

Жыл бұрын

I remember that Dueling banjos was a top 40 hit, the constantly played it on the radio. And if you think that movie petrified you, I was in the Boy scouts at the time and we went on a canoe trip down the Delaware river, imagine doing that after seeing that movie LOL We went in April and froze my balls off, and if THAT wasn't enough of a freak out, the day before we went we found out some guys drowned.

@kentimmins9171

Жыл бұрын

So did I...also at 15!

@TimRHillard

Жыл бұрын

I was five in 1972... I didn't see it until my mid thirties, but I agree: This is a horror film and a dang good one at that👍👍. I bet you like the shining as well. Have you ever seen the TV show of the shining? Pretty scary for TV for that time period. They don't make'em like they used too.

One of the best films of all time. You can’t think of the 70’s without it. Classic

The tension in that scene, when Reynolds waits for that dude to take the rifle....then let's it fly 🏹 KILLSHOT!!!! 🎯 AWESOME film making! HORRIFYING SCENE!

@gregoryhagen8801

Жыл бұрын

Burt Reynolds best role.

@kevinfrimpong969

Жыл бұрын

@@gregoryhagen8801 Longest Yard (Original) is good as well.

@montanaelkwhisperer1744

3 ай бұрын

especially if you've ever hunted with a bow. nothing like that hollow "THUNK" sound of deflating lungs.

One of Burt Reynolds best movies. He did his own stunts..

@KaBoomChannel

Жыл бұрын

I read he actually busted his tail bone going over the falls so when you see him laying by the side of the river in a lot of pain while Jon Voight was climbing the cliff, he wasn't acting

@spnkysy791

Жыл бұрын

@@KaBoomChannel I have Burt Reynolds book that he wrote before he died. BTW, if interested there’s a man named Jerry Skinner that does great videos of old actors, etc. He had one on Burt. Skinner had a very Southern accent, has a big following. Take care!

@JohnDoe-b3h5m

4 сағат бұрын

Stroker Ace was his best movie.

A True Classic!! 👍👌😊🍁♈ RIP Burt Reynolds and Ned Batetey 😔

@williamwilson6499

Жыл бұрын

Ned Beatty.

@peterjoseph8913

Жыл бұрын

Batetey?

Happy 50th Anniversary, Deliverance! This is a truly terrifying movie, though the "Duelling Banjos" scene adds some much needed humour before the storm.

@owie4070

Жыл бұрын

Very true. It was interesting learning about that extra arm in the sleeve. Never heard about that trick before.

The reason why this film succeeds is its faithfulness to the novel.

Made my cousin a avid camper and outdoors kid watch this the other month ago. He called it the most frightening thing he ever watched lol 😂

Great flick, it was the first R rated movie I ever saw, a couple of years after its initial release. Burt's best movie IMHO. In the book, Lewis states he was at full draw for at least a minute before he made that "centershot." I heard Burt did 100 pushups before each scene to do his portrayal of Lewis justice. I lived in Atlanta as a kid, hiked and camped in North Georgia, and Boorman really made the audience feel that oppressive climate. The relentless heat, the humidity, wringing sweat, constant sounds of insects and birds--- produce a sustained claustrophobic panic as suffocating as the predicament the characters try to escape. One of my all time favorite movies.

@nicksambides2628

Жыл бұрын

It's the best depiction of humidity I have ever seen.

@davidturcotte5677

Жыл бұрын

You describe a Georgia summer, mid August, perfectly. Thank god you didn't include the smells! And written so well. Anybody ever suggest a career in writing?

The first thing that came to my mind as I saw the notification was the line, spoken in thick southern accent, "He got a real pretty mouth". Classic, alongside Cool Hand Luke's "I think what we got here is failure to communicate". Oh, the classics!

@blackholeentry3489

Жыл бұрын

Odd thing......five minutes before I checked this out, I had looked up that scene in Cool Hand Luke....one of my all time favorites.

I thought the scene at the end when they are sharing dinner with the locals, the visual, knowing connection between Ed and Bobby and the subsequent release of emotion by Ed: so powerful and real. Underrated scene in light of the other more well-known scenes.

dueling banjos is a scene of movie gold..once seen never forgotten.. cannot remember a single movie of the past decade or more that has a single scene to compare with it.

@conformistbastard9842

Жыл бұрын

Did you mean one scene? Or once scene? Or a scene once seen?

@jackfischer5153

Жыл бұрын

@@conformistbastard9842 take your meds!

This is the first classic I'd ever seen on DVD in 2001. I'd never seen it before then, but I'd seen numerous movies made around that time on VHS. I couldn't believe how well the picture quality looked on DVD. It looked as if it could have been filmed around the time I watched it. The sound, the color correction, the picture quality itself, all made for a, "I will NEVER watch another movie on VHS again!" experience. One that I never went back on.

@AbstractM0use

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Now I feel the same about DVD once I saw blu ray and now 4k. First Blu ray I watched was 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the picture quality was absolutely mind blowing. I don't get the trend of collecting VHS. With dvd the picture and sound are superior and theres no need to rewind a tape.

@yearginclarke

Жыл бұрын

I still like to watch VHS and listen to cassettes once in a great while, because the comparison makes you appreciate what we have now. I remember when I switched from my crappy early 90's boombox to a CD player, I didn't even realize the pitch/speed problems that those crappy cassette players frequently had back then. The same albums on CD sounded slower and took some getting used to at first.

The 1970s were a great decade for cinema; its when filmmakers could take the gloves off and take risks.

@Quiksilversurf311

Жыл бұрын

My favorite film decade for sure with the 60’s being a close second.

@gregggoss2210

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. There is a film that is a unicorn to try to get ahold of. If anyone remembers a film starring Gary Conway (The Land of The Giants) called "The Farmer", please let me know where I can get a copy of this On DVD or Blue Ray. An excellent film that evidently was too controversial for anyone to release in this country after its short run in the theaters.

@Quiksilversurf311

Жыл бұрын

@@gregggoss2210 It currently has a Blu-ray release. It finally got a Blu-ray release around 6-7 months ago.

@gregggoss2210

Жыл бұрын

@@Quiksilversurf311 ,do you know where it is available for purchase?

@Quiksilversurf311

Жыл бұрын

@@gregggoss2210 diabolikdvd.com

One of my favorite movies, and one that rarely ever gets talked about on KZread - so thank you!

The key scene of the movie was *supposed to* be Ed (John Voight) climbing that big rock and wrestling with his inner demons and his conscience, which is why there's a moment when the scene turns negative color. Ed is the character who is supposed to be us, the audience, witnessing the tragedy taking place and questioning the morals of the actions taken by our four "heroes". But, of course, all we ever hear about are "those two scenes."

@Ramdapanda

Жыл бұрын

Wait, I watched the movie for the first time the other night and didn't noticed the negative color part. Will have to go back for a second look!

It was nominated for Best Picture, and the infamous "Squeal like a piggy scene" was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

@tommyfuller103z

Жыл бұрын

NPR has round table discussion about that scene! What's that tell you about The High Browed People of NPR?

@chrisderidder4087

Жыл бұрын

Dude that scène was hardcore

@just-a-fella3212

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisderidder4087 I don't know how the actors could play that scene.

@im1who84u

Жыл бұрын

@@just-a-fella3212 I was thinking the same thing about Ned Beatty. That was his film debut, and at least in my mind, every time I saw him on screen, no matter what part he was playing, I always thought.... Hey isn't that the guy that.....? I guess if you're in Hollywood and you want to be a "star", you sell your soul to get any part. They couldn't pay me enough to take that part. I suppose there are other parts I wouldn't take either and some that come to mind are, romantically kissing another man or making a "love scene" with another man, being a wife or woman beater, graping anyone male or female, being a child abuser..... acting or not, I just wouldn't want to be associated with any part of something like that. Even if it meant ruining my career and never being asked again to do anymore future parts. I would just have to walk away from Hollywood and find another way to make a living.

An iconic movie that deserves all the acclaim it gets.

John Voight was so good as an actor! Burt was awesome in this as well. It was real.

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

Voight gave a great understated performance as the unlikely hero who got them out of there! Burt Reynolds actually acting, instead of just being Burt Reynolds. Ned Beatty, damn he caught a lot of jokes for that role. Extremely brave and risky move on his part. Ronny Cox for the Dueling Banjo sequence will always be a highlight! This was an extremely powerful and intense movie! Also beautiful scenery and cinematography!! It is so intense because it stays in this narrow scope that most people could understand and be terrified! 4 regular guys on a weekend trip suddenly caught in a terrifying situation!

I have owned it for years and still watch it occasionally. It was ahead of its time 👍👍

my uncle (Alan Jones) was assisant film editor on Delivernce and did foley work in the sound department. He punched cabbages for the thud of arrows in the back. I haven't asked if he ADR'd the pig squeals

@RunaroundAtNight

Жыл бұрын

That's great. It seems like punching things was a go to solution for a lot of foley work.

@wendyladybug355laurie4

Жыл бұрын

That Is SO COOL,I ALWAYS FIND IT FASCINATING BEHIND THE SCENES SUCH AS THIS-- FOR THE TWISTER SOUNDS IN THE MOVIE, TWISTER,OF COURSE, THEY USED SCREAMING CAMELS' FOR THE SOUNDS OF A TWISTER!!!! MANY PRAYERSNLUV TO ALL WWG1WGA 👼👼✝️✝️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🌹🌹💝💝💃💃

This film absolutely terrified me as a child. For me, the dead hand rising out of the river at the end is the single most disturbing thing ever put on film. 50 years on, I still look away.

@knarf4083

Жыл бұрын

Nah. The onset of rabies at the end of the movie "Old Yeller" is much more disturbing. And that was a Disney movie !

@SunnyGirlFlorida

Жыл бұрын

Not exactly a family movie.

@tommyfuller103z

Жыл бұрын

I could give shit about the Hand out of water. That Toothless hillbilly saying He sure got a real Purdy mouth. Is one reason I never did anything that would place me in prison!

@maratonlegendelenemirei3352

Жыл бұрын

That piggy boy squealing like a pig was more disturbing.

@peterl4614

Жыл бұрын

IMHO - As a child someone should have intervened and stopped you from seeing it. That is why that have a rating system. "R" didn't stand for "R"eassuring!

Deliverance is a brilliant film, brutal in places but still brilliant.

Man I like this movie, it's really suspenseful gripping stuff that had me on the edge of my seat first time I watched it. I don't know why my sister and dad did not like this movie.

Curious that Burt Reynolds didn`t get any decent drama roles after this. I liked him

@thegreenbird795

Жыл бұрын

Burt MADE A TON OF MONEY ON THOSE BANDIT AND CANNONBALL MOVIES...

This really is a great movie. It's truly a timeless classic. Like some movies that are great in there time ,but only seem to be cheesy when watched 20 years later. Not Deliverance. 52 years later and still holds the same strength, creepiness, realism, suspense, you name it. This movie holds up

Excalibur, Deliverance, The Emerald forest, all John Boorman timeless classics I highly recommend viewing.

@splawnrobert

Жыл бұрын

Except '"Exorcist 2 "'. Terrible film. A John Boorman mistake.

@chrisderidder4087

Жыл бұрын

Bro! I watched excalibur like 1 million times when i was a kid. We had it burned on a vhs. Quality sucks but still watched it a lot

@kungfew1396

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisderidder4087 Same here I still watch it all of the time, it is one of the best sword and sorcery movies ever made imo.

Fuck, that shoulder scene took dedication!

@johnbowman1076

Жыл бұрын

"That' , the male rape, and the arrow bursting into the scene.... Were three things I had never seen before.

@romystumpy1197

Жыл бұрын

Talk about method acting ,the four of them acted perfectly

I remember a comedy bit by Gilbert Gottfried and he was talking about this movie. He said he wondered how filming that scene went. He said did Ned Beatty come out of his trailer and say hey there's a page missing from my script. And the director said don't worry about it Ned we're just going to wing it today.

@urosmarjanovic663

Жыл бұрын

And the director said don't worry about it Ned you just have to take one for the team.

@davidturcotte5677

Жыл бұрын

Yes sir, you win the Internet laugh of the day!

@IIISWILIII

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

I only watched it once, but have never forgotten it. Time for a re-watch

Burt was a beast in this movie, he just owned the role of Lewis. Too bad his career path took him to such movies as Cannonball Run and Stroker Ace...

@hotrox2112

Жыл бұрын

Agreed... This was his top form film roll. After Deliverance, he went full on camp with his film choices?

Classic. The theme of going where one ought not to and paying the price has never been better portrayed than here.

@travismiles5885

Жыл бұрын

I can see your point. But I would add Kubrick's full metal jacket. The first scene after boot camp when Joker and rafter man are talking to the Vietnamese prostitute and the song These Boots Were Made for Walking is playing. The first line of that song is you've been messing where you should not have been messing. It was Kubrick poking his finger in the eye of the United States government for going to vietnam.

Met Dickey as a high schooler just a few years before he died. He came to see a group of honors kids at a summer camp to read some of his poetry. True to form, he was completely drunk.

@gaz4840

Жыл бұрын

he has a cameo role as the policeman at the end when the boys finally arrive back to civilization..!

@lpnelson6584

Жыл бұрын

@@gaz4840 For an amateur actor, he nailed that scene.

@nicksambides2628

Жыл бұрын

@@lpnelson6584 He did. He was awesome.

The 70's were the best decade for movies, and Deliverance is right at the top!

I got the notification for this video, but instead of a bell it was a banjo.

The whole vibe of this movie is great, from start to finish.

Burt and his Bear take down is what got me into archery

Thanks for this retrospective. I know something about the woods, and that movie was dead-on in how fantasy can turn into deadly reality out there.

@troyundroy1

3 ай бұрын

That’s what I like about Deliverance. You can see yourself and your friends being these 4 guys. That “scene” is the best as at any moment you think the mountain men are going to say “we’re just fuckin with you - the route down the river you want to take is…” and then ironically, really start fuckin with you.

The movie entertains while intertwining city folk and simple. The banjo scene sparks a connection between 2 musicians. The mountain people were entertained by simplicity, ie. dancing to the banjo. The city folk wanted to take on the river. Great movie.

Outstanding film. As the decades go by, I think more highly of it than ever.

I am proud to own this amongst my DVD (Yes!!!) collection and I watched it for the first time in a while last week. Powerful stuff and I don't believe I'm alone here, but the 70's had loads of classic sci-fi and action movies taken from novels written by writers with a true passion for their genre. Cheers folks! 🧐

I have seen the movie 4-5 times and read the book in 2020. They followed the book very closely so not sure what Dickey was so upset about. They even let him act at the end of the film. He did a great job. Dickey wrote another book “To The White Sea” an action story about a soldier surviving behind the lines during WWII and it looked like it was going to be a movie by the Coen brothers but for some reason fell through.

@arhatyellow

Жыл бұрын

To the White Sea is an autobiographical account of James Dickey's combat experience in WWII after his plane was downed in a bombing raid over Tokyo. Great book.

@joeharris3878

Жыл бұрын

To The White Sea was a good one, nice to know it hasn't been forgotten.

Well done. Fast pace, to the point and no over bearing music. Great work.

Great work on this video. You packed so much good content into it, with great editing. I've subscribed to your channel. And yes this is one of the truly great movies, I must have seen it 6 or 7 times now and the suspense is always there. Thanks.

50 years...... crazy aint it? This was a great movie.

Really enjoyed this, thank you.

EXCELLENT summary & review.

This movie is a masterpiece that stood the test of time.

Just picked this movie up in a charity shop, haven't watched it in about 30 years. It really is an absolute classic and I have to say Burt at his best.

What a great movie and a great wtf episode, only watched this for the first time ever a few months ago, those actors give outstanding performances, One of my fave movies of all time is Deerhunter, can you do one about that movie.

I was 15 when I hired that movie. my mate loved it that much he asked video store guy if he could buy it. $20 later he had it we watched it heaps. It did the rounds with all my friends over the years. What a script always one of my favourite movies👍

Definitely one I watch now and again. Think it's on Netflix right now.

The end of the movie didn't exactly make complete sense. The sheriff had absolutely no reason to suspect the canoers of anything concerning the mountain men. As far as the sheriff knew, the mountain men could have run away to meet some girls in Abbeville, Georgia. For some reason the canoers did not realize that and decided that they needed to concoct a story when "nope, we didn't see anyone" would have sufficed.

@baseballman4958

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. As much as I love this movie, the foundation upon which they suspect the guys is almost non-existent. Except for a broken piece of canoe. And what does that prove, other than one of their canoes broke? They lost a friend, you would have thought the focus would have been on seeing if the body drifted down river.

I floated down the Chattooga River one year after the movie was released. Gorgeous!! Rumor in town (Clayton) was that Reynolds could never return because he made love to so many of the women!!

I like this movie. I watch the reruns every time it’s on .

Finally watch this film last night. I have no idea what it is about films from the 70s but just so cool

All of John Boorman's films contain a reference to the Arthurian legend. The sequence in this film is also replicated in Zardoz. If it hasn't "clicked" yet, it is the shotgun emerging from the river water, as per the sword being lifted from the lake by the lady (Excalibur). It's Boorman's signature, like Hitchcock's cameo appearances, or Ridley Scott's rain.

10/10. Amazing film. Haven't felt like watching a film.

“WHERE YOU GOIN, CITYBOY?!”

@WaterborneCamper

Жыл бұрын

You ain't goin' no damn where....

@danielgbgibson

Жыл бұрын

My name is mud

When i was in middle school we would all poke fun at one another. "You got a purty mouf" was one of the classic one liners 😆 good times

@willmoore7582

Жыл бұрын

Likewise I used to say it to friends when we were camping - at night around the campfire..Apparently they didn't sleep too well after hearing that one!!

@mahaffeyjason9643

Жыл бұрын

@@willmoore7582 😆👍🏻

One of my all time favorites!

It's one of the best movie's ever!

Excellent commentary.

"You boys are making shine up here ain't ya?...heck, we'll buy some from ya" Boy, this movie sure wouldn't fly these days. I remember being 6 yes old, and my dad actually buying a canoe then..'72-'73 Ohio shaped sticker was on the front side of it. Yep, this movie affected him enough to buy a Grumman canoe. Rip Dad!

Top 10 movies of all time. Absolutely perfect.

One of my faves.

I watched this movie home sick in 1993 along with “The Killer” by John Woo… Interesting day of movies…lol

"They don't realize it, but the river where they're having the kayak race is the same river where they shot 'Deliverance.' And I'm telling you, if Ned Beatty couldn't get down that, a French man in a speedo doesn't have a chance!" -Jeff Foxworthy (Games Rednecks Play)

This is an excellent rainy day afternoon rewatch. If you do watch it again, make sure to pay close attention to the landscape shots, and the river. For the time, the filming of this was excellent! And for heavens sake, if you ever travel to that area, take a can of Vaseline with you😳😳😁😁

My wife was babysat by the banjo player. We go to Rabun County a couple times a year to visit family. I interviewed Billy Redden and gave him a "paddle faster" t shirt.

Truly one of the best movies ever. Amazing realism, the stunts were insanely real.

Very suspenseful for the 70's , looking back you can imagine some influences, Cape Fear comes to mind.

Potent filmmaking, yes.... And, John Boorman directed OTHER classics as well..., including "Hope and Glory".., a film about World War II... as seen through the eyes of a child in England.... ..."Hope and Glory" was inspired from his own childhood memories of World War II. ...Well Worth Watching !

I enjoyed that move so much , I purchased a copy. I viewed the move when It hit the big screen for the first time. I was a little boy and the scene where the country boys demanded, "SQUEAL LIKE A PIG ! That Blew my mind , because at a very young age, I didn't know, men do that kind of activities. The sound of pain from the naked fat man has disturbed me to this very day. Also the fear expressed on the faces of the actors. That's why we all need the 2nd amendment. Hello ? Do you want to find yourself in the wilderness DEFENSELESS ? If you do....Practice you pig calls.

Glad you mentioned Rituals. A similar story line and scared the heck out me as a kid. Canadian film as well.

Great book- great movie. Reynolds best and one of top 3 Voight movies. We lived there I can recall visiting qrea right after filming. Yeah another era for sure.

Finally I know the story of Ronnie Cox's dislocated arm. All these years I thought it was a convincing prop.

Bill McKinney also played Capt Redlegs, another loathesome character, in the the Clint Eastwood movie, Josie Wales.

Just watched it last month.....still a great movie. Great job.

Tarantino's new book brought me here to find out more about this film. Great insights!

I recall it was John Voight who had the "Purdy mouth" lol

I saw this as a young child, and it stuck with me. I've revisited it as an adult and it is super WILD.

Great movie and it had a wonderful effect on the area.

ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE

@romystumpy1197

Жыл бұрын

Definitely!!

Very interesting. I love movies, so its fascinating to find out what goes on in the background that's not on film.

@maitrem

Ай бұрын

You mean the Backside? right.

Burt with the bow is one of those F yess!! moments in cinema they was doing my boy Ned dirty!

I always wondered how Cox got his shoulder to do that.

If you thought Deliverance was a romantic comedy, you might be a redneck

@g.willikers1376

Жыл бұрын

I always get it mixed up with "Baby Boom"

@davidturcotte5677

Жыл бұрын

Or Three Men And A Baby....

Dueling banjos scene was awesome and bewildering. And kind of hilarious.

One of my favorite films of all time.

I had the pleasure of watching a number of films with the cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond in the early 90's. The only things we discussed about Deliverance were issues surrounding shooting day for night. A few years later, I saw a pretty bad print in Century City's summer series and the color shift in the night sky gave it an otherworldly nightmarish feel that seemed fitting. The movie still holds up well. I had never heard about Ronny Cox dislocating his shoulder for that shot. It certainly worked.

The movie poster filled a lot of seats.

Paddling the Chattooga River was the absolute highlight of my youth in the 1970s!

Great movie with great scenery. It's a movie that will be watched for a long time.

This movie brought the world of outdoors to the common man's table! I thought the casting was Outstanding, much like so many other Classics- The Godfather; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Birds; The Outsiders...etc. And the Director really captured the suspense of the 'unknown' outdoor lifestyle without the blood & gore & the use of special effects. It consistently kept me on the edge of my seat, just anticipating what kind of trouble they were going to get in next!