Deliverance (1972)

[Scott]

DELIVERANCE (1972) - Great film film directed by John Boorman and starring Burt Reynolds, John Voight, Ned Beatty and another guy I didn't recognize. The only part of this film that I've seen was the dueling banjo scene and that was back in the 70's on HBO. Didn't know it was such a great film. SOUTHERN COMFORT was a good film, but DELIVERANCE is even better. This is a film of true horror. Imagine killing someone by a stupid accident of mis-identification. Everything about this film is well done. Don't miss it.





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[Master Blaster]

"this one got a perdy mouth"

[Mr_Vindictive]

Had never seen this one until last year when I finally rented it on DVD.  Amazing film.  Not only is it a "rednecks gone bad" flick, it's also a survival flick.  Loved it.

[odinn7]

For years I had heard about this film and just kind of blew it off. Too old and ridiculous, plus it has Burt in it. I finally saw it about 2 or 3 years ago and I kick myself for thinking this way and not having taken the opportunities to view it earlier. Well done movie.

Scott also mentions Southern Comfort. This is also an excellent film and I would highly recommend it to anyone who also likes Deliverance.

[trekgeezer]

Burt Reynolds has been criticized for years about not  taking the opportunities being in the movie afforded him (being taken for a serious actor).

Burt once said that Ned Beatty had to go around for years with people coming up to him and asking "Ain't you that feller that got boogered in Deliverance?"

Can't believe you guys haven't seen this before now, it's a real classic.  The book is pretty good too.

[dudeman]

Loved this film, I'll read the book it's based on one day just to compre it with the film. I heard Al Bundy  was in one scene too, forget which one though, but he was just an extra.

[raj]

Great film, and Burt can act.

"squeal like a pig"
-Shudder-

[Ozzymandias]

I have a much younger co-worker who had never heard of the film and thought I was making it up. His girlfriend had to set him straight.

BTW, Ed O'Neal is a cop at the end of the film. Kinda like Ted Knight in Psycho .

[Jack Corbett]

How bad is it? According to Zed in Mad's Pulp Fiction parody:

BUTCH: What are you going to do to us?

ZED: Let me put it this way. It'll make the "Squeal like a Pig" scene in Deliverance look like A Very Brady Christmas!


Not that I doubt it isn't horrible...

[Scott]

Yea, I can hardly believe that this was the first time I saw this film. I have seen the dueling banjo scene in the past, but for some reason never watched the whole thing. Great film

[Alan Smithee]

Great movie.
Intrestingly, Boorman directed Zardoz and Exocsist 2: The Heretic (which is considered as one of the worst movies of all time).

[The Burgomaster]

One of my all-time favorite (and most watched) movies.  Do yourself a favor and read the book, too.  It is extremely well written and will give you a lot of additional insight into the characters.

[peter johnson]

Didn't Boorman also do Hope and Glory?  That's one of the best films ever about the British home-front during WW2.
I didn't know that Ed O'Neal was a cop in Deliverance.  I know James Dickey himself/the author also cameos as a cop at the end.  
My wife did a seminar with Dickey once on English poetry in the 17th & 18th centuries.  She says he was a wonderful teacher -- very funny.
Grim, nasty little film.  Also about loss & the passing of time sweeping all away before it.  The Coen brothers gave it a nod in O Brother . . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[Yaddo 42]

I have that paperback in Scott's image.

Burt Reynolds has criticized himself as much as other people have for not capitalizing on that role. One of those regrets he mentions along with turning down the roles in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Terms of Endearment" that Nicholson won Oscars for.

For an interesting look at the filming of "Deliverance" seek out Christopher Dickey's memoir about his troubled relationship with his father, "Summer of Deliverance". He said his father was so absorbed in them making this film and being on the set that he made a nuisance of himself and was asked to leave for much of the filming. Chistopher Dickey did some extra work in various scenes, and said he was the body under the sheet at the end as well. Good book worth finding.

[Scott]

It's good to know that I haven't seen all the good ones yet. I'm still finding some really decent films both big films and low budget.