Deliverance | |
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Directed by | John Boorman |
Written by | Novel: James Dickey Screenplay: James Dickey |
Produced by | John Boorman |
Starring | Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox James Dickey |
Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Edited by | Tom Priestley |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | July 30, 1972 |
Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $46,122,355[1] |
Deliverance is a 1972 American adventure thriller drama movie made by Warner Bros. It was directed by John Boorman and stars Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Jon Voight. It was based on a book written in 1970 by James Dickey, who also wrote the screenplay and had a small part in the movie. It is set in rural northern Georgia. Four men from Atlanta take a trip in a canoe. One of them is raped by sadistic local men who force one of the other men to watch; the four take revenge on their attackers and swear each other to secrecy.
Deliverance got good reviews from critics and is widely considered one of the best films of 1972.[2][3][4]
In 2008, Deliverance was selected by the Library of Congress into the United States National Film Registry.