Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel.

Deliverance: Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. 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.

On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk. — Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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James Dickey‘s “Deliverance” also is the story of a “worst journey.” Four city slickers from Atlanta decide to take a canoe trip down a river that will soon be flooded out to make a lake. One of the four is big on the old machismo.

Based on the novel Deliverance by James Dickey (Boston, 1970). On a Friday afternoon, Atlanta men Ed Gentry, Lewis Medlock, Bobby Trippe and Drew Ballinger drive two cars to the top of the Cahulawassee River, planning to canoe through the river's rapids and return home on Sunday.

In the Appalachian backwoods, four urban explorers' weekend of male bonding turns into a fight for survival against nature and the brutality of man.

Deliverance (1972) is British director John Boorman's gripping, absorbing action-adventure film about four suburban Atlanta businessmen friends who encounter disaster in a summer weekend's river-canoeing trip. It was one of the first films with the theme of city-dwellers against the powerful forces of nature.

In the Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. The only escape is a through a terrifying canoe ride down a raging …