Deliverance

Deliverance
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed byJohn Boorman
Screenplay byJames Dickey
Based onDeliverance
by James Dickey
Produced byJohn Boorman
Starring
CinematographyVilmos Zsigmond
Edited byTom Priestley
Music byEric Weissberg
Production
company
Elmer Enterprises
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • July 30, 1972 (1972-07-30)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million
Box office$46.1 million[1]

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name. The film was a critical and box office success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations.

Widely acclaimed as a landmark picture, the film is noted for a music scene near the beginning, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy. It is also notorious for its brutal depiction of a sodomitical rape. In 2008, Deliverance was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference TN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Cinematic Classics, Legendary Stars, Comedic Legends and Novice Filmmakers Showcase the 2008 Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 25, 2020.

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