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Deliverance
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
1972 · Directed by John Boorman · 109 min · Drama · Adventure · Thriller · 17 frames
Tagline
What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?
Crew
- Screenplay: James Dickey
- Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
- Edited by: Tom Priestley
- Produced by: John Boorman
Cast
- Jon Voight as Ed Gentry
- Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock
- Ned Beatty as Bobby Trippe
- Ronny Cox as Drew Ballinger
- Ed Ramey as Old Man at the Gas-Station
- Billy Redden as Lonnie - The Banjo Boy
- Seamon Glass as First Griner
- Randall Deal as Second Griner
- Bill McKinney as Mountain Man
- Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward as Toothless Man
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Elmer Enterprises
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $46,122,355
- Themes: rape, based on novel or book, river, banjo, strangeness, wound, wilderness, georgia, canoe, rafting
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