Based on the novel by James Dickey. Jon Voight (Ed), Burt Reynolds (Lewis), Ned Beatty (Bobby), Ronny Cox (Drew), Bill McKinney (Mountain man), Herbert "Cowboy" Coward (Toothless man), James Dickey (Sheriff Bullard). Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1972. Special features: Commentary by John Boorman [optional audio feature]; Deliverance: The beginning [featurette] (17 min.); Deliverance: The journey [featurette] (13 min.); Deliverance: Betraying the river [featurette] (15 min.); Deliverance: Delivered [featurette] (11 min.); The dangerous world of "Deliverance" [featurette] (10 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).
Contents:
Last chance -- Don't know nothin' -- "Duelling Banjos" -- Negotiations -- Speed to the river -- Pushing off -- Banjo boy -- First rapids -- Game: Survival -- Around campfire -- Arrow misses mark -- Wrong turn -- Reason to squeal -- Arrow hits mark -- Where's the law? -- Burial -- Capsized! -- Get to play game -- Ed's ascent -- Encounter at dawn -- Ed's descent -- No end to it -- Best of us -- Raging rapids -- Our story -- Civilization -- Questions -- Visiting Lewis - Warning -- Yielding the dead.
Summary:
They left their troubles at the office. Left the wives and kids behind. Four men bound for the wilderness, for a great adventure--without their golf clubs. Lewis has talked his buddies Ed, Drew, and Bobby into going on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River, which is being soon to be dammed. It was the weekend they hoped for, but it turns out to be a weekend where the destruction of nature, macho posturing, conflict between city and country folk, and the dangerous disconnection of modern civilization from nature will loom entirely too large.
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