Deliverance - 1972
This is the weekend they didn't play golf
Director(s)
John Boorman
Writer(s)
James Dickey (novel)
James Dickey (screenplay)
Producer(s)
John Boorman producer
Cast
Jon Voight - Ed Gentry
Burt Reynolds - Lewis Medlock
Ned Beatty - Bobby Trippe
Ronny Cox - Drew Ballinger
Ed Ramey - Old Man
Billy Redden - Lonny
Seamon Glass - First Griner
Randall Deal - Second Griner
Bill McKinney - Mountain Man
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward - Toothless Man
Lewis Crone - First Deputy
Ken Keener - Second Deputy
Johnny Popwell - Ambulance Driver
John Fowler - Doctor
Kathy Rickman - Nurse Lilley
Louise Coldren - Mrs. Biddiford
Pete Ware - Taxi Driver
James Dickey - Aintry Sheriff Bullard
Macon McCalman - Deputy Queen
Hoyt Pollard - Boy at Gas Station
Belinda Beatty - Martha Gentry (as Belinha Beatty)
Charley Boorman - Charlie Gentry, Ed's son (as Charlie Boorman)
Review by Jack Gatanella
Deliverance (1972)
One of the most amazing films ever made,
Not too many films are as tighteningly frightening and exquisitely exciting as this. Deliverance tells the story of a quartet of southern men who decide to go on a canoe trip in a hillbilly river. But then come a series of events that match the Mansons madness. The squeal scene is almost fokelore at this point, and the two villains, mountain man and toothless man (McKinney and Coward) are two of the most horrifying ones of all time making yankees squirm in they're seats. The dueling banjo scene is also memorable with Hoyt Pollard (I think) memorably playing the kid plucking the banjo (that song will be stuck in your head for a while). If the film teaches anything though in it's whirlwind of excellence it's this- 1) make sure to wear your lifevest and 2) DO NOT INBREED! Scripted by James Dickey from his novel and masterfully directed by John Boorman. A+
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