Deliverance

[Glenn MacGrady]

I saw this, the greatest fictional canoe movie of all time, in 1972 in Tallahassee, Florida, which isn't that far from the take-out of the dead-body-strewn Cahulawassee River. "This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn."

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"During production of Deliverance, three Georgia whitewater paddlers happened to be in the right place at the right time, becoming stuntmen and technical advisors for the film. Doug Woodward recounts what it was like to be part of that experience."

Revisiting Deliverance

50 years ago, a film appeared in theaters which caused audiences to squirm with angst, due to a terrifying sequence of events in the Southern Appalachians.

www.blueridgeoutdoors.com

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

And here is the toe-tappingly famous instrumental from the movie—the inexplicably named "Dueling Banjos." As is obvious to all who have seen the movie, the instrumental more properly should have been entitled "Dueling Plucked Fretted Chordophones."

 

[Gerald]

Almost lost my wife as a canoeing partner after going to see then movie way back then.
G.

 

[clemency]

Threre is a plaque to James Dickey at the University of SC where he wrote the book. Also a memorial library. I used to pass them daily on my way to and from work.

Site where James Dickey Wrote Deliverance Historical Marker

(A historical marker located in Columbia in Richland County, South Carolina.)

www.hmdb.org

 

[Alan Gage]

Decent movie. Excellent book.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Here's a "then and now" video about the actors in Deliverance. I didn't realize that Sheriff Bullard was played by the book's author, James Dickey.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Fun bit of history, Glenn! I had no idea about the origins of NOC.