Deliverance (1972): 20 Things You Never Knew!

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

Remember watching this in the mid 80s as a teenager. Amazing acting and very hard hitting performances.

[@markfx12]

It is a great film and does not need to be remade, Hollywood!!

[@rexbrumbelow1550]

No, it doesn't

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Nor did it need to have its '70s color scheme changed by the director's whim, the authentic natural look is only on the old snapcase DVD not the SE that came out later.

[@LD-qj2te]

@@markfx12 I have always thought this , but would the ruin it ??

[@scott-m2e]

are you sure? i mean four women going to the river.......wet boobs!!!!! but of course it will still be two men who mess with them. or maybe the hack Sandler could "f" up another bert movie

[@rrampage36]

It has with just about every other remake... Have you seen the complete garbage that the remake of Wages Of Fear (2024) is of the original (1953). This is the movie about 4 truck drivers driving thru the jungle to deliver nitro glycerin to blow out an oil well fire... A true classic adventure movie. The new one was terrible 🚫​@LD-qj2te

[@nickbenke3306]

Deliverance did for camping what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean! The performances were outstanding and who can't say they've been in the woods and uttered 'He's gud a reawl priddy mauth ain 'e' Thanks for this! Bravo!

[@danielmitchell6940]

Every time we drive in new areas of backwoods, I always tell me companions, "If we hear banjos, you are on your own!"

[@rkgaustin]

Ladda.

[@dx1450]

Strangely, it did inspire a lot of people to try canoeing down that river, many of whom drowned. Which is strange, because Deliverance is not an upbeat, feelgood movie. If anything, it would keep me from wanting to go canoeing for fear of meeting some big greasy hillbilly who wants to make me squeal like a pig.

[@davidjacobs3275]

@@dx1450 At least on THAT river..

[@jefflanham1080]

“Where you goin’ city boy?!” …..”it’s only the biggest river in the state!”

[@edwardburek1717]

Great film. It was on BBC Two the other night, and it still has the power to shock.

[@ltdees2362]

IMO...best movie Reynolds ever made...he loved Georgia & had a home up in Loganville, Walton county. He helped launch Georgia's film industry...The Longest Yard, Cannonball Run & there were many more. Deliverance was a gut wrencher to its core and brought out the brilliance of Burts acting abilities...

[@matthewrendino4223]

This movie should be seen by all. It draws you into it and never lets go. Four decent men on vacation canoeing in a wild river cross the threshold of nightmare city. Four men who are not killers become killers in order to survive those with weapons and those indirectly involved in the legal system. They defend themselves only to not ever talk about it for the rest of their lives knowing that they directly or indirectly killed 2 men in self defense. Knowing that, they would never get a fair trial because the people were inbred in that part of the country. The movie sends a message out to me as "what would you do?" I cannot imagine living the rest of my wanting to do the right thing but knowing I can't. This story is very deep. I have never tired watching it.

[@cjgaeilge4350]

i know they had guns, but could they just have been wounded instead of killed?

[@samr.england613]

The Chattooga River, isn't really all that, "wild", then or now. It was just a movie. There's no real, "wilderness" left in the United States east of the Mississippi River.

[@dwayneandrews2059]

​​@@samr.england613Sorry but your ignorance is beyond comprehension. You obviously haven't traveled enough to comprehend how vast our country or world is. Please don't throw out such ignorant statements. Most of the entire landmass has never been explored, let alone have human footprints on. The oceans and waterways are even more misunderstood. Research, travel and get back to us in 20 years ago. Ignorance is not bliss brother. Just another page in the book you never read.

[@dwayneandrews2059]

Good synopsis. A great movie not only entertains but questions the very essence of what humans experience and tests how you will react during extreme situations.

[@samr.england613]

@@dwayneandrews2059 You don't know wtf you're talking about. First of all, I wasn't talking about the entire world, but the United States EAST of the Mississippi. Second of all, I'm from north Georgia, and the Chattooga isn't as 'wild' as portrayed in 'Deliverance', then or now, and I've travelled to every state in the Union except Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota and Montana. Thirdly, I was raised Presbyterian, and part of our doctrine, is, wait for it: Ignorance is not bliss! There is no true "wilderness" left (in the United States) east of the Mississippi River. There are designated, "Wilderness Areas", most of which are the size a one or two counties. That is not a "wilderness", so don't be such a presumptuous person.

[@GrumpyMeow-Meow]

Burt Reynolds should have won an Oscar. I’ve never been a big fan, but his performance in this film was stellar. I remember the bad press surrounding the Cosmo shoot. It definitely impacted the film.

[@LD-qj2te]

Bury was amazing in that movie !!

[@richarddouglas1712]

Godfather was up there year .. Deliverance would have won that year

[@GeorgeCostanzais10.]

I saw on a video about BOOGIE NIGHTS he could have won had he not somewhat disowned the Paul Thomas Anderson movie. He was immensely talented but also had a huge ego and was complicated to deal with.

[@glenwoodriverresidentsgrou136]

Burt was not taken seriously early in his career, not unlike Cher. This is Oscar material, as was Cher’s early performances in Silkwood and Mask.

[@MrPGC137]

I agree; I think this was Reynold's best movie performance.

[@zombiebiker5581]

Great film, stellar cast, great location. Watched it a few times still stands up today. I always thought Deliverance and Southern Comfort where very similar film themes,man against nature,man against man. Both chilling and both fight for survival. I usually watch together least once a year.

[@nettiegurl]

Always honored the dueling banjo's scene for it's mastery and artism

[@sunnyscott4876]

Please, please, please don't try to remake this classic. It ain't broke and doesn't need fixing.

[@graemew7001]

Deliverance isn't my favourite movie but it is one that shook me to my core when I watched as a teen in the 80's and not a film I'll ever forget. I've never watched it again as I realise this is based on a bit of reality of areas like that and it sends shivers down my spine.

[@grannyweatherwax8005]

My mom is from northwest Georgia and she hated this movie because she felt it unfairly biased people against the south. She always complained about how northerners treated the south. (Of course the fact that she moved north at 18 was ignored 😂) I think history has proven she wrong and there are definitely areas like this in real life. Certainly it's not just in the south, but there's a lot of this there.

[@graemew7001]

@@grannyweatherwax8005 Its the reverse of that here in England, those in the South give grief to us in the North, mind no inbred stuff though. Then again, we can handle it because they talk garbage and don't live in beautiful scenery like we do!

[@williamrae9954]

I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre aged 12...Deliverance is tame by comparison still can't watch that movie!

[@samr.england613]

@@grannyweatherwax8005 People confuse the, "South", with Appalachia. That said, the perception that sodomites live only in Appalachia is beyond offensive and absurd.

[@samr.england613]

@@williamrae9954 They're just movies.

[@Yep-h9g]

This movie and Southern comfort

[@1retdGI]

Southern Comfort (yea, that's a good one). I sometimes get the two mixed when I think about scenes. Both great wilderness thrillers.

[@hotwheel6663]

Bloody well done mate.

[@nolotrippen2970]

Mom can I see this (13-year-old me asked)? It's got Burt Reynold of TV fame! Sure she said, and my young self sat through what I consider one of the greatest true horror films ever made. Really wrecked me.

[@sniffrat3646]

I was 8. My parents went out for the evening leaving me in the hands of my "responsible" older brother...who swiftly went out himself! I watched the entire thing alone. I've never been the same since.

[@clarezall2045]

I watched it in a theater, age 16, then took my dad to see it the next week. Big, John Wayne type guy, shook to his core by "Deliverance". Only other film shook him that much was "The Exorcist".

[@steviebeare1961]

😂😂😂 brilliant parenting!

[@Davofromdownunder65]

Ed O'Neill from Married with children played the driver of the police car at the end

[@annamariaisland1960]

For years after the movies release, southern newspapers carried advertisements from rafting companies urging would-be adventurers to come to the Chatooga River and experience it "just like 'Deliverance' !" I myself did do such a trip about 15 years after the release, and even at that late date, river guides were still pointing out the locations of specific scenes in the movie, including the scene with the "Mountain Men."

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

So I guess the best advice is - If you hear banjos - paddle faster!

[@TheSaltydog07]

The sheriff you see is James Dickey, the author and has a cameo. ❤❤❤

[@andrewdeehan6292]

Pretty frikkin cool, Man! Great movie! Great video!

[@Denveralgoe]

never won any awards but will always be one of those films u never forgot the line when burt said now u get to play the game!

[@Slickjc1]

This is a movie that I have only seen ONCE. Because of that ONE scene. Seeing it was terrifying. I was a Burt Reynolds fan but had never seen this movie, only the car ones (Hopper, Smokey & The Bandit, Cannonball Run). This came on HBO. After this movie, I never wanted to go camping, rafting, nothing to do with the woods at all!

[@patpending8134]

🤣

[@NCLUSA]

I remember watching this movie at a Drive In, at the time the movie was cutting edge (:

[@garyshepherd9226]

The sheriff part is really well played.

[@jraben1065]

I always found the Sheriff's character to be deeply unsettling. Every scene he was in made me physically and emotionally uncomfortable. For instance, it was hard to tell if the Sheriff's interrogation of the Survivors was an honest effort to uncover the truth, or a covert desire to frame a few "outsiders" for murder. Well, now I know that the actor playing the Sheriff was Dickey,,, and that he actually was a disturbing, contradictory, and confrontational person. So, it was great casting!

[@garyshepherd9226]

@@jraben1065 agree

[@boxelder9147]

Dunahee

[@mikedarrow3809]

I love this movie! Burt is my favorite actor!

[@jeffreyallen9626]

Great video thanks for giving a behind the scenes with great director and actors rip to all who left us 🙏❤️😞

[@jesscapel1600]

I graduated HS in the county where this was filmed. The cast often ate up at the Dillard House and I would hear stories about the filming from the Dillards. My buddies showed me Burt and Loni's house he had in Dillard at the time. Later in college, I was a raft guide on Ocoee River (mostly) as well as the Chattooga and Nantahala rivers. The first year, the boss hired Billy Redden (the banjo kid) to drive our bus mostly so they could say this is the kid from Deliverance. Billy was a nice guy but got homesick after a few weeks and went back to Rabun county. Billy was just an ole country boy and was not dimwitted. His face was burned in a grease fire when he was a kid, hence his unusual look. He didn't play banjo either. A local picker was behind him sticking his hands around his back. You tell, if you look closely, that the hands are rather large for a kid that young. Mostly filmed on the Chattooga river and some scenes a few miles down the road in the Tallulah Gorge (used to hike down to the sliding rock down in the bottom while at Athens Y Camp).

[@jessiejames2155]

I had no idea what I was in for when I finally sat down to watch classic movie...😮 Wild .

[@glennallen2605]

Thanks for this! Ronnie Cox, whose character is killed & is shown mangled against a rock, was apparently double jointed, which was why he was posed like that. Cool, no? Thanks again! :-)

[@sunnyscott4876]

Deliverance is an amazing life changing movie 🎬.

[@KevinHGoDawgs]

My family and I went whitewater rafting down the Chattooga when my kids were tenneagers. We had a very experienced guide with us, fortunately, who gave us instructions on what to do, when. We had a blast, but I could see how the actors could have died, without expert guidance.

[@mikescott1198]

Awesome as Always!! Deliverance is a classic, Dickey's novel doesn't get enough respect, Man vs Nature, Man vs Man! Thank you for all you do, just found you and have been awesome, how about doing, Scarface or how about the original Longest Yard, thanks for what you do.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Glad you enjoyed it, those films are on the list, it's a very long list, but they will be coming at some point.

[@clarezall2045]

"To the White Sea", Dickey's only other novel is also great.

[@susiedyer3260]

Most of this movie was filmed n my home town and I know several people n the movie like the banjo kid his name is Billy reddon and the Dr that patches up burt is the Dr that delivered me and my younger brother and the Drs named Fowler the nurse is I think cathey rickmanand several others

[@TnTBikingAdventures]

I live right here near Lake Jocassee in Upstate SC. My friend Sam's grandfather was the pastor at the church that was moved, and his family was buried in that cemetery. When they built the lake, there was a lot of animosity over the eminent domain from Duke power. I've heard that a few years ago, Billie Redden was working at Walmart in Clayton. But, I cant confirm that. He would be over retirment age now.

[@rrampage36]

@TnTBikingAdventures Blame your local, state and federal government at the time for that... Not Duke

[@stephenrivera4382]

Dueling Banjos wasn’t played by a child. It was played by Eric Weissberg, a talented bluegrass artist. The recording was originally featured on a record titled New Dimensions in Bluegrass

[@SquiddlySpace]

I think he meant another child was the arm picking the banjo in the scene. Weissberg did the recording for the film. His arm wasn't in the scene.

[@BilSande4]

A few years ago my friends and I went on a rafting trip down the same stretch of the Chattooga that deliverance was filmed on, and we went right past the area where the famous "squeal like a pig" scene was filmed. It was definitely a rough ride, and an experience I'll never forget. At one point our raft capsized and we all went in the water and I got pretty banged up before I managed to make it to the shore. It was pretty intense and more than a little scary. Good times. LOL

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Sounds amazing

[@peterwinters8587]

Raft? wuss

[@gubernatorial1723]

Excellent, Rocky. Much appreciated. Subscribed.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Thanks and welcome

[@GaryT1952]

One of my absolute favorite films and books ...thanks for this Rocky

[@earlmccrary9903]

BURT REYNOLDS was, & still is the MAN!!! He could do it all “COMEDY 🎭,DRAMA, & definitely ACTION”!!! A TRUE STUD 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽!!! My Favorite Movie 🎥 of his is “GATOR” followed by “WHITE LIGHTNING”!!! No one, … & I mean NO ONE compares to this HOLLYWOOD🎥LEGEND!!!🙌🏽💪🏽🔥💯😎

[@christophergallagher531]

He is great in Hunter's Moon

[@earlmccrary9903]

@ Thanks for telling me! I’ve never seen that movie before! Just found it on KZbin & playing for free!!! I will definitely be watching that tonight on my Friday Movie Night 🎥🍿!!! Once again THANK YOU!!!😎

[@christophergallagher531]

@@earlmccrary9903 The movie is hard to find. With Keith Carradine. Set in Appalachia after WWI. Moonshine! Reynolds' best work. BTW I drank with Dicky in '76.

[@seanstewart6893]

Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world throughout the seventies and eighties, I've been a fan for 40 years now,Gator is fantastic ,directed by Burt,it had everything, I watch the movie twice a year.White Lightning superb,another of my favorites, do you collect the film memorabilia ,have you read all the Burt biography s,great reading

[@niallkennedy23]

Great video dude!

[@leebritnell2405]

Subscribed,excellent stuff!

[@nolotrippen2970]

Really enjoy your videos, filled with info but not with padding. Short and sweet. Other channels could learn a log from yours.

[@juancatfish1]

This film showed what the rural south was really like. Banjos haunt everybody.

[@colinwilkinson5450]

Great movie one of the best

[@kevinluschak5241]

Such a great film!

[@LD-qj2te]

Funny I was in the deep Appalachian woods the other day and was thinking of this movie

[@PaulVickers-n6k]

Any banjos playing

[@Rick-l6e]

now i have watched anything that burt was in but no matter what i do i stare at the rug on his head

[@Zeebad_1st]

Burt Reynolds was proper 70's hard bastard there.

[@sethkaicer319]

You've got a purdy mouth Rocky😮

[@DerSteppenwolfe]

I knew a nephew of his named John. John was an incessant liar, a guy who never really made anything of himself but would talk for hours about how almost single-handedly invented the computer at IBM.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

Fact Number 21: My cousin James Dickey wrote this novel.

[@TheSaltydog07]

Adore the man. Rest in peace.❤

[@ProfMadnesS]

Awesome review!

[@theone861]

Great narration! Thank you for not using A.I., it's great to hear personality!

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marksamuelsen2750]

I Watched This Movie On OFFUTT AFB in Nebraska At SAC HeadQuarters! Burt Had Us Rockin & Rolling

[@kevinsmith9502]

Best guy movie ever made.I feel tougher after watching lol.

[@ConnieinVirginia]

This was a really good movie.

[@edsmith4821]

To even to have considered Brando would have be madness he would have stuck his lines to rocks and trees

[@mikemay8334]

So the scene with Mountain man was supposed to be Burt Reynolds part, but he got to the set early and told them to give that act to Ned. Gilbert Godfreid did a great routine about that. It was hilarious.

[@ChrisBruhn]

After watching this, I just realized 😅 THIS movie was the manifestation of my fears as a child (and too this day 👀) of seeing "floaters" in rivers as we passed over in our car on bridges. 😂🤣

[@cpuuk]

A great film.

[@WillyCLARKE-g8c]

A shocking movie at the time.

[@MrPGC137]

Not mentioned in this video, but not only is that Boorman's son Charley, but also his real-life wife in that quick cameo-shot. Another interesting fact: All the scenes shot on the river were shot silent, and all the sound & dialog were post-dubbed. The sound of the river itself Boorman created on his own personal Moog synthesizer at his home in Ireland.

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Good video👍

[@TheVidkid67]

"Git down there boy, git them britches down!"

[@RodChampers]

I was surprised it wasn’t set and filmed in wales

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

😆

[@jessedorsettii9988]

In the Reynold's movie Hooper, Burt, playing stuntman Hooper is seen at home throwing a party with the river scene playing and him explaining how he was injured.

[@scotniver7180]

If the Film wasn't up against The Godfather, it would have taken Everything. It was a PERFECT movie in every way. The cast were exceptionally PERFECT. They made Godfather into a Franchise.. There is only One Deliverance.. There shall Never be another. They may try a Corny re-make for the younger crowd, but it will not have the same effect it had on us Boomers. It shattered our innocence. The new customers are already saturated with purple transgender hair and Porn addiction; the squeal piggy scene is already a normal occurrence. Thanks for sharing.. Deliverance.. the Perfect Movie

[@kratibnoi10310]

Great!

[@grannyweatherwax8005]

I guess it's too late to change but Ned Beatty's name is pronounced the same as Warren Beatty. Bay-tee

[@ponyboymb]

Classic movie ❤❤

[@wfomph1435]

thanx i lived about 30 from where it was filmed

[@rickswineberg]

30 what, miles, feet, inches, yards, steps. What 😅

[@Local.hero.1983]

Burt Reynolds is not the main star,his character is not the main character. Jon Voight is the main star and his character is the main character...watch the Film.

[@0-60.tests.with.Passengers]

Yes, it was only after the success of Smokey and the Bandit in 77 that marketing for the Film on TV & later on VHS focused heavily on Reynolds.

[@dx1450]

I can't believe this movie inspired a lot of people to try to canoe down that river... I mean, it's not like the characters in Deliverance were having a great time.

[@monicaford5106]

It was incredible!❤

[@Bob31415]

That the photo shoot in that magazine negatively affected the movie at the Oscars is hard to believe. Hollywood was (and is) hardly prudish.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

They announced a remake of "Deliverance" but up-dated for modern audiences; so it'll have an all-black cast

[@grannyweatherwax8005]

Not sure if you are confused or attempting a racist joke. There is a movie called The Deliverance but it has nothing to do with this one. It's a supernatural horror movie.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

@@grannyweatherwax8005 What's racist about my comment, do tell?

[@jameswesterman9283]

He knows what he's talking about and he's right​@@grannyweatherwax8005

[@panheadsforever74]

That's how Hollywood makes it modern, remake it all black,or all gay.

[@edgein3299]

Diddy will play the part of the mountain man

[@faerieSAALE]

Deliverance and Easy Rider caused a lot of mayhem and ill will between races and dislike for Hicks and Deep South people. I was living in Hamilton Beach, CA at that time and was impervious to most of what was happening. Most in the US Military didn't much like Asians during the Vietnam Era conflict either. I had Cousins and an Uncle in various branches of the military.

[@tuzonthume]

I can't imagine how they would have explained Sutherland's accent in the deep south.

[@timyoung4280]

Bruce Dern learned that from John Wayne, who had Bruce do that for The Cowboys.

[@aliassmithandjones9453]

What surprised me about this film was much of the story occurs after they get off the river

[@annapotat0987]

GO TEACHER DAVID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@diGritz1]

Having watched it in the 70's, never watched it again. It's an awesome movie the 1st round. After that it's a bit uncomfortable. Odd how some are like that. Can watch Omega Man over and over. But the pseudo remake I am Legend, once was enough.

[@ShoanSnoday]

00:22 Joe Biden made his movie debut

[@casanovafrankenstein8538]

Damn

[@alandelbridge5979]

which part did he play

[@ffjsb]

"Not even the fighter pilot he claimed to be"... Stolen valor. That makes you totally untrustworthy to most of us Vets.

[@MikeinAmman]

Read a bit more about Jim. I knew him for many years as both a student and colleague at the University of South Carolina, and he never once claimed to be a "fighter pilot." He flew 38 missions in the Pacific and in Korea in P-61 Nightfighers, and won five bronze stars. There was no "stolen valor" about him. And I was one of many people who knew Jim that were interviewed by Henry Hart for his objectively awful biography--it didn't get a single positive review in any academic journal--so I can tell you first-hand, as can many others, how insanely biased Hart was in his "research." Jim was one of the most influential American poets of the last half of the twentieth century, author of three novels, and over a hundred articles and reviews. And before you speak for "most of us Vets," I served 8 years in the Marine Corps myself, so I hate stolen valor as much as the next guy, but Jim was not that.

[@dg2545]

Did that title really read "Fisty Cuffs"?! 😂

[@ericalred290]

Ned Beatty Got the Hardest Part..... to the tune of The Waiting is the Hardest Part by Tom Petty.....It's on KZbin

[@johnpendarvis7885]

The first question is always "HTF could you possibly have one clue about what I don't know?" 0:08

[@rockywatchesmovies]

I'm psychic 😜

[@gpasprimus6505]

I seen this movie when l was 12 kind of freaked me out back then esp the squeal like a pig scene yrs later worked as an extra in a local police show Ned beatty was right next to me in one scene

[@SloopADoopy]

Between paddle faster and squeal now those are the reasons i never went camping

[@jefflanham1080]

Sigh……c’mon down pretty boy!!

[@margaretpalmer6538]

Great movie….. the banjo player I heard was not from that area. It was just a regular guy not treated any different than any other.

[@swamprat69er]

I saw it in the theater on a snowy day that I couldn't work anyway. Great movie and I've seen it a number of times since then.

[@finaoo1167]

"Hey, Guys, there's a page missing from my script." "Uh, don't worry about that, Ned. We'll cover that later."

[@dx1450]

"By the way, how good are you at making pig noises?"

[@brianc6272]

Best part in this entire Movie was the Banjo Scene otherwise i thought it was so over rated, i only watched it the other night after so many years and didn't really see the huge hype, it is no wonder the movie 'The Gidfather' won over this movie as that movie was in another league

[@darrenupton5500]

How did Drew bend is arm like he did when he drowned. Was he double jointed?

[@bluemountain555]

Can you answer this question: Was the actor who played the second, escaped hillbilly the SAME actor who played the man on the cliff killed by Jon Voight in the climax?

[@dx1450]

No. Didn't look the same. And it wasn't the same character, if you remember the sheriff asked if they'd seen his brother-in-law who'd gone out hunting but didn't return. The insinuation is that they accidentally killed a guy who was just out hunting and wasn't the other hillbilly who assaulted them. And if you think about it, they were likely traveling a lot faster down the river than the other hillbilly would have traveled on foot though those woods, so it's unlikely he'd been able to keep up with them. Lewis was mistaken when he kept saying that Drew was shot. When they found his body they didn't find any bullet holes except the spot on his head which could have been caused by a rock. More than likely their paranoia was getting the better of them.

[@lotsofthisandthat9791]

What river in Georgia did this happen?

[@mtaylor7307]

The Chattooga River the main tributary of the the Tugaloo River.

[@cjgaeilge4350]

Reynolds would never have played the Ned Beatty role as it would have harmed his macho career & image, but ironically his career never really went anywhere after it anyway...

[@Arthur-r7z]

Huh?

[@lasseeloranta439]

Stairway to heaven

[@mikescott1198]

And Man vs Himself

[@judsonkr]

#21: Ned Beatty did not read the entire script before signing onto the project.

[@63mckenzie]

The story about the male r*pe scene is hilarious.