Deliverance
“What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?”
Director
John Boorman
Screenplay
James Dickey
2 wins · 14 nominations
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox play four Atlanta businessmen on a canoeing trip down a soon-to-be-dammed Georgia river who find their weekend escape turning into a fight for survival against the wilderness and its hostile locals. Director John Boorman crafts a primal, unflinching survival thriller that became notorious for its harrowing assault scene and endures as a meditation on masculinity stripped of civilization's comforts. A critical and commercial hit that earned three Oscar nominations, it remains a landmark of 1970s American cinema and a cultural touchstone (the phrase 'squeal like a pig' entered the vernacular).
Release
Aug 18, 1972
Budget
$2M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$46M
Cast
Jon Voight
Ed Gentry
Burt Reynolds
Lewis Medlock
Ned Beatty
Bobby Trippe
Ronny Cox
Drew Ballinger
Ed Ramey
Old Man at the Gas-Station
Billy Redden
Lonnie - The Banjo Boy
Seamon Glass
First Griner
Bill McKinney
Mountain Man
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
Toothless Man
Kathy Rickman
Nurse
Pete Ware
Taxi Driver
James Dickey
Sheriff Bullard
Macon McCalman
Deputy Queen
Belinda Beatty
Martha Gentry
Charley Boorman
Ed's Boy
Reviews
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