--- title: 'Deliverance (1972)' type: 'film' director: 'John Boorman' released: '1972-07-30' runtime_minutes: 110 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Adventure' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/deliverance-1972' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Deliverance (1972) 1972 · R · 110 min · Drama, Adventure, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to go whitewater canoeing down 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. ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [James Dickey](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-dickey), [John Boorman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-boorman) - **Director:** [John Boorman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-boorman) - **Producer:** [John Boorman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-boorman) - **Original Music Composer:** [Eric Weissberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-weissberg) - **Director of Photography:** [Vilmos Zsigmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/vilmos-zsigmond) - **Editor:** [Tom Priestley](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-priestley) ## Cast - [James Dickey](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-dickey) as Sheriff Bullard - [Burt Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-reynolds) as Lewis Medlock - [Ed O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-o-neill) - [Ned Beatty](https://cinepixo.com/people/ned-beatty) as Bobby Trippe - [Bill McKinney](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-mckinney) as Mountain Man - [Ronny Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronny-cox) as Drew Ballinger - [Charley Boorman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charley-boorman) - [Billy Redden](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-redden) - [Jon Voight](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-voight) as Ed Gentry ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/deliverance-1972 Film facts: Wikidata (Q814778); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.