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Actors: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight
Directors: John Boorman
Format: PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 18
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: 17 Sep 2007
Run Time: 104 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000VM8YAK
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,660 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Deliverance remains one of the screen’s most powerful man-versus-nature adventures and was a motion picture shocker of the 1970s. It's the story of four Atlanta "weekend warriors" who set off in canoes down a dangerous Georgia river and discover a wilderness of terror. The Deliverance 35th Deluxe Edition has been remastered and comes with a host of new extras, including retrospective featurettes and director commentary.
Directed by John Boorman (Excalibur, Point Blank) in 1972 and adapted by James Dickey from his novel, Deliverance was nominated for three Academy Awards including "Best Picture" and "Best Director". Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox star as the four friends whose canoeing weekend turns into a horrifying test of survival. Boorman’s taut direction builds the tension and fear to a raging climax, as the men travel way beyond their comfort zone and are forced to face more than they could have ever imagined. Vilmos Zsigmond’s expert cinematography captures the wilderness of forest and river, while Eric Weissberg’s classic musical theme "Dueling Banjos" provides a perfect counterpoint to the action.

Special Features
Commentary by John Boorman - Director Boorman takes a journey down the river and discusses the adventures, the team, the controversy and what it took to make Deliverance a classic film
The Beginning - Take a historical look at the novel and its adaptation to the screen
The Journey - From the early stages of filming to the creation of classic moments, such as the Dueling Banjos scene
Betraying the River - The making of one of the most controversial and ground-breaking sequences in film history
Delivered - A reflective look back on the completion of the film, its impact and how the idea for the shocking ending came to be
The Dangerous World of Deliverance - The original behind-the-scenes documentary on the difficult conditions and challenges of making this film.
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Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage notions about achieving true masculinity by challenging nature, Lewis cajoles three of his friends, Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox), and Ed Gentry (Jon Voight), into joining him on a white-water canoe trip down an uncharted river in the Appalachians, although only Ed has had any similar experience. The locals that Lewis hires to drive their cars downstream warn him about the difficulty of the journey, but this only makes him more eager to start. The first day goes smoothly as the men learn how to shoot the rapids, and all are exhilarated. On the second day, Ed and Bobby become separated from the other two and reach the landing point ahead of them. Two hillbillies suddenly appear from the forest and decide to hold the two men at gunpoint as the trip begins its tragic downward spiral. Reynolds has one of the best roles of his career in this compelling meditation on the costs of masculine ritual; the film boasts a superb cast as well as the subtle camerawork of the great Vilmos Zsigmond.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still disturbing., 28 Sep 2007

By	U Dick "heavy-duty" (Stevenston, Ayrshire) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This film is an intense cinematic experience. It follows four city boys trip into the wild backwoods of rural America for a canoe trip on a river that is shortly to be dammed. What they find there is a lawless place populated by small minded locals and an unforgiving journey down stream. The story, the direction and the acting all come together to produce a film that will unsettle you. The scenes in the backwoods have a geniune sense of isolation and the rapid change of the characters from city business men into ruthless savages is very well done. The famous abduction scene was groundbreaking at the time and obviously was a big influence on "Pulp Fiction".

This special edition also includes a four part retrospective documentary, with interviews with the director and the four lead actors and is a fascinating look at the making of the film and the impact on film culture and the actors subsequent careers. There is a contemporary making of documentary as well and a director`s commentary. An excellent package.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Squeal, piggy, squeal !!, 21 Feb 2008

By	Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

It would be a shame to think of this movie in terms of its horrific male rape scene. It is probably the best thriller ever made. This is truely exception film making that doesnt let up from when the city slickers arrive in the backwoods to the moment their canoe journey ends. The tension is racked up through some superb set pieces.

Director John Boorman never helmed anything as good as this; it would do him justice to ignore Zardoz and Exorcist 2. However, I strongly recommend his more recent movie 'The General' with Brendan Gleason.
This Deliverance 35th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition is packed with extras and is worth the purchase price and then some.

Nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Movie...The Godfather won that year for the last category), Deliverance (1972), based on a novel by James Dickey, who also adapted it for the screen, and produced/directed by John Boorman (Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur), stars Jon `Joe Buck' Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Anaconda) and Burt Reynolds (The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit). Also appearing is Ned Beatty (Nashville, Network), in his first film, Ronny Cox (Beverly Hills Cop), Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward (Ghost Town), and Bill McKinney (The Outlaw Josey Wales), both Coward and McKinney honored by Maxim magazine as the number one screen villains of all time for their roles in this film (if you've seen the movie you'll have a keen idea why they were chosen).

As the film begins we see quartet of men traveling into some deep, Southern backwoods the intent being to take a weekend canoe trip down an isolated body of water known as the Cahulawasse River which we learn is the `last, untamed, unpolluted' river in the area, but that's about to change as a new dam is in the works, one that will change the river, for better or worse. Anyway, of the four men there's Lewis (Reynolds) who's somewhat of an enthusiastic, naturalist type that also initiated the trip, his friend Ed (Voight), and Ed's friends Drew (Cox) and Bobby (Beatty). Upon arriving at a gas station the boys get a bit of local flavor including an unspeaking, banjo-picking mutant obviously from the shallow end of the gene pool. It's a little after this point when one of my favorite lines of the film comes about, as the boys are trying to hire someone to drive their cars down the river apiece so they'll be waiting for them at the end of their trip. Upon relating their plans, one local asks the question, with a pronounced, Southern accent, "What the hell you wanna go **** (rhymes with duck) around that river fer?" Amen brother...once their vehicles are squared away the boys hit the river in two canoes, eventually stopping and setting up camp before night sets in...the next day they begin down the river again. After awhile they get separated and Ed and Bobby stop along the bank for a breather...and thus it begins...about forty minutes into the film a pair of greasy, filmy, dirty, mountain men, played by McKinney and Coward, emerge from the woods brandishing a shotgun and bad intentions. After some small talk they strap Ed to a tree and the toothier of the two proceeds to put it to Bobby in a very uncomfortable place, all the while making him `squeal like a pig'...seriously...as the one finishes with Bobby the other decides Ed's got a `real purty mouth' but things don't get too far as Lewis, sporting a wicked compound bow, shows up and makes his point. From here the boys must now make their way down a river fraught with dangers, and possibly face the consequences of their actions if they can't agree upon what to tell, or not to tell, the authorities at the end of the line.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Horror Film Really, 26 Nov 2007

By	D Skilton (east sussex uk) - See all my reviews

Though this movie is often termed as an action and adventure film, its a horror film really along the lines of "The Hills Have Eyes" & "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Like those films you got a bunch of ordinary people caught up in a horrifying situation involving some very peculiar individuals. The only difference being Deliverance was shot on a much higher budget with known actors. Some of the violence is tame by today's standards though the rape scene is as disturbing to watch as ever. This is still a chilling film that is well acted and full of memorable scenes.

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Intense thriller with some pretty hideous moments. Burt Reynolds (pre-surgery by many years) is muscle bound and fit - this is probably his best film. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ten Stars for 35th Anniversary Remastered Edition
It has been a very long time since I originally saw Deliverance. This film seems to have grown in stature during that time. Read more

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