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Deliverance
Directed by
John Boorman
R
1972
1h 49m
Drama
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Adventure
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7.6
90%
82%
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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Cast of Deliverance
Jon Voight
Ed Gentry
Burt Reynolds
Lewis Medlock
Ned Beatty
Bobby Trippe
Ronny Cox
Drew Ballinger
Ed Ramey
Old Man at the Gas-Station
Billy Redden
Lonnie - The Banjo Boy
Seamon Glass
First Griner
Randall Deal
Second Griner
Bill McKinney
Mountain Man
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
Toothless Man
Lewis Crone
First Deputy
Ken Keener
Second Deputy
Johnny Popwell
Ambulance Driver
John Fowler
Doctor
Kathy Rickman
Nurse
Louise Coldren
Mrs. Biddiford
Pete Ware
Taxi Driver
James Dickey
Sheriff Bullard / Writer
Macon McCalman
Deputy Queen
Hoyt Pollard
Boy at Gas Station
Belinda Beatty
Martha Gentry
Charley Boorman
Ed's Boy
John Boorman
Director / Producer
Deliverance Ratings & Reviews
mickerdoo
June 23, 2025
Thank goodness a little bit of justice prevailed. I would't have thought twice with my bow. Song gets stuck in your head.
Decider
Glenn Kenny
The movie casts a spell through images both ugly and beautiful, and other sounds, none of them really reflecting the idea of "nature in harmony." All here is dissonance, and the best one can do is find a thread of consolation within.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...an ecological, existential nightmare.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Classic '70s adventure has brutal, disturbing violence.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...an underwhelming adaptation of an underwhelming book.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
Boorman's film still speaks to us in profound ways, as if to indicate hidden wisdom has long rested in frames glossed up by a once-shocking philosophy.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
This powerful adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel finds director John Boorman establishing a sense of menace almost from the start, and the "squeal like a pig" sequence continues to haunt viewers even decades after the fact.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Boorman's interpretation of the material resulted in an American cinematic classic built not only on shock and awe, but emotional subtlety. [Blu-ray]
TIME Magazine
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
Eye for Film
Keith H. Brown
This is the most shocking and disturbing mainstream American horror film of the 1970s.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
As coffin nails for the sixties go, this negation of all ideological idealism is a pretty final one.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
No movie in the history of American cinema has struck fear in the hearts of men as Deliverance.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
TV Guide
Morose, shockingly violent yet strangely beautiful.
Variety
Variety Staff
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This ultra-violent powerful adventure, which deals with serious, metaphysical issues of survival and civilization vs. wilderness, boasts eerie images and awesome sounds.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
This man-versus-nature story is also about man indulging his most uncivilized instincts, and in their various ways the four men on the canoe trip are transformed.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be.
Austin Chronicle
Raoul Hernandez
To this day, 'Dueling Banjoes' still gives me the willies.
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