Deliverance

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Deliverance, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Deliverance, 1972.

City dwellers Lewis (Burt Reynolds) and Ed (Jon Voight) find the river, then less-experienced partners Drew (Ronny Cox) and Bobby (Ned Beatty) join them as they launch their canoes, John Boorman directing from the ever-profane script by the novelist James Dickey, early in Deliverance, 1972.

Still in their first afternoon on the north-Georgia river, Lewis (Burt Reynolds) with Bobby (Ned Beatty) and Ed (Jon Voight) with Drew (Ronny Cox), mark their first successful run and share some private moments, in John Boorman’s film from James Dickey’s novel, Deliverance, 1972.

Trying to arrange the delivery of their vehicles downstream, Drew (Ronny Cox) takes up the famous banjo-guitar duet, Billy Redden the partner, canoe trippers Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Ned Beatty observing, banjo recording by the composer Eric Weissberg, early in John Boorman’s Deliverance, 1972.

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Four city businessmen find danger and death in the Georgia backwoods in John Boorman's Deliverance (1972) starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.