Deliverance | |
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Directed by | John Boorman |
Produced by | John Boorman |
Written by | Novel: James Dickey Screenplay: James Dickey |
Starring | Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox James Dickey |
Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Edited by | Tom Priestley |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | July 30, 1972 |
Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $46,122,355 |
Deliverance is a 1972 American crime drama movie made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by John Boorman and stars Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, and Jon Voight. It was based on a book written in 1970 by James Dickey, who also wrote the screenplay and had a small part in the movie. It is set in rural northern Georgia. Four men from Atlanta take a trip in a canoe. Two of them are raped by sadistic local men; the victims take revenge on their attackers.