Deliverance

Deliverance is a 1972 American <a href="/facts/Thriller_film/RLj4941a">thriller film</a> directed and produced by <a href="/facts/John_Boorman/dRs70aLx">John Boorman</a> from a screenplay by <a href="/facts/James_Dickey/IEWSpf2U">James Dickey</a>, who adapted it from his own <a href="/facts/Deliverance_(novel)/RGDWEqTs">1970 novel</a>. It follows four businessmen from <a href="/facts/Atlanta/8hPVGb78">Atlanta</a> who venture into the remote <a href="/facts/Appalachia/GGjCgGyK">northern Georgia wilderness</a> to see the <a href="/facts/Cahulawassee_River/cj0FhlAb">Cahulawassee River</a> before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars <a href="/facts/Jon_Voight/V1Ngxztr">Jon Voight</a>, <a href="/facts/Burt_Reynolds/8exc2rdL">Burt Reynolds</a>, <a href="/facts/Ned_Beatty/6SujA759">Ned Beatty</a>, and <a href="/facts/Ronny_Cox/9yelDdGt">Ronny Cox</a>, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.
Deliverance was a critical and commercial success. It earned three <a href="/facts/Academy_Awards/CwTxYuNQ">Academy Award</a> nominations and five <a href="/facts/Golden_Globe_Award/1v50C2Tb">Golden Globe Award</a> nominations, and grossed <a href="/facts/US_dollar/naEEDUhC">$</a>46.1 million on a budget of $2 million. It became a popular culture landmark for a scene featuring Cox's character playing "<a href="/facts/Dueling_Banjos/9Nsk3oEJ">Dueling Banjos</a>" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy, and garnered notoriety for a scene in which Beatty's character is brutally raped by a <a href="/facts/Mountain_man/XbJl5fB6">mountain man</a>. In 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States <a href="/facts/National_Film_Registry/HGoP1Mre">National Film Registry</a> by the <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a> as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Deliverance