Deliverance

Deliverance
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed by	John Boorman
Screenplay by	James Dickey
Based on	Deliverance by James Dickey
Produced by	John Boorman
Starring	Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Tom Priestley
Music by	Eric Weissberg
Production company	Elmer Enterprises
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	July 30, 1972 (1972-07-30)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$46.1 million

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. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to see the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.

Deliverance was a critical and commercial success. It earned three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, and grossed $46.1 million on a budget of $2 million. It became a popular culture landmark for a scene featuring Cox's character playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy, and garnered notoriety for a scene in which Beatty's character is brutally raped by a mountain man. In 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[1][2]