Deliverance (1972): 20 Things You Never Knew!

[@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.

[@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!”

[@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

[@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).

[@waynefoote3781]

Great story! Thank you.

[@frisk151]

That must have been fun!

[@robtoc]

Fantastic story, thanks for sharing!!!

[@kevinb3812]

Thanks for the insight River Runner!

[@joelwexler]

Great story. I hope he gets a few bucks considering how famous he was. And there he is driving a bus.

[@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.

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

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

[@edwardburek1717]

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

[@sunnyscott4876]

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

[@penoyer79]

the 3rd act kinda sucks. there's nothing to it. i think there are several different endings that could have elevated it. my favorite idea is to have Ed (voight) fail/die climbing the mountain so that the Ned Beatty character can get some revenge on the hillbillies that assaulted him and then (to complete his arc) physically save the Burt Reynolds character, the man who had bullied him and called him useless the entire movie. now that's a movie.

[@dbelex]

Ned Beatty's character would be gay.....And like it......seweeeeee

[@bogodproductions4712]

The only white people in the remake would be the hillbillies

[@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...

[@waynefoote3781]

YES! So true...And Burt was just hilarious in the rest of those including Smokey & the Bandit!

[@dawnadriana1764]

Saw this magnificent film in a theater way back then...& remembering the emotion that brought me to tears. My boyfriend was embarrassed by my tears, and made a cruel comment, never getting that he was the clueless macho guy and that was why I was crying. Broke up with him the next day.

[@mirandarights9635]

I saw Deliverance when I was just 15. It's one of the best and most frightening films I've ever seen. A classic!!

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I can hear you squeeling like a pig right now

[@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.

[@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!

[@nettiegurl]

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

[@eddiep2899]

Which of the dueling banjos had the scene to which you referred?

[@nettiegurl]

@@eddiep2899 the sole one in the film that I recall like most, of Drew playing with Lonnie (Billy Redden) on the porch. Total legendary that was reciprocated I believe in an episode of Hee Haw

[@ludicrous7044]

They never said why there wasn't two dueling banjos. The strange thing is it sounded BETTER with guitar and banjo! I think I can answer the question. The guitar played the rhythm and the banjo the lead. Banjos don't play rhythm well.

[@eddiep2899]

@@nettiegurl Oh - the apostrophe in "banjo's" made it seem like the banjo possessed... something.

[@eddiep2899]

@@ludicrous7044 ... weren't ...?

[@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

[@johnwilcox4078]

"Don't come back up here" 😅

[@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.

[@derekstocker6661]

Yet another fabulous film, and worryingly very believable. Great acting, great scenery and marvelous story. Tanks for this, well done!

[@scorpiotaurus]

Saw this movie when it hit the theaters with my high school friends. Being from the country, this movie inspired me to take up archery and the overuse of the line, “where you going city Boy!” Thanks Bert RIP

[@richterkennedy2101]

There is only one scene in this movie that sticks out and we will remember forever. It is still talked about today and I even use it under certain circumstances because I live in the deep south now. This will never be forgotten.

[@andrewdeehan6292]

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

[@Davofromdownunder65]

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

[@NCLUSA]

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

[@matt82654]

The mountain man with no teeth was "Cowboy" Conard. Everyone in our hometown loved him. In his last years he would go to the Waffle House with his wife and his pet squirrel "Angel" . He was a lovely man who got along with everybody and attended most every church in the county along with helping daily at the homeless kitchen. We all miss him. He and his wife died tragically in a car accident just this year.

[@mikedarrow3809]

I love this movie! Burt is my favorite actor!

[@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."

[@kevinb3812]

I love river trips, but not "just like 'Deliverance' !". Hell No!

[@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!

[@hotwheel6663]

Bloody well done mate.

[@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! :-)

[@jessiejames2155]

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

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

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

[@blackholeentry3489]

And....reach into your backpack, making sure you have your .357 ready!

[@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

[@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.

[@jeffreyallen9626]

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

[@rdcochrane1746]

Great era for landmark creepy movies: Deliverance gave us the best school yard bullying threat ever; we had the sadistic futuristic brainwashing in A Clockwork Orange; The Exorcist our first deep dive into what CGI could do to ruining sleep for a week; Jaws where the soundtrack flagged something extreme was about to happen; and of course, Carrie's reminder to always wait for the credits before you head for the exit.

[@niallkennedy23]

Great video dude!

[@Krishicher]

“Uncle” Frank Rickman was my mother’s first cousin’s husband. To say he was a character is as much of an understatement as calling Mt. Kilimanjaro a little hill. Frank wheeled and dealed to get the studio to film Deliverance in Rabun County, GA. All of Frank’s family played bit parts or were extras. My cousin Cathy played a nurse with one line to Jon Voigt in the hospital where I was born.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

That's great

[@gubernatorial1723]

Excellent, Rocky. Much appreciated. Subscribed.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Thanks and welcome

[@jefff6167]

Well done. Thanks for the excellent entertainment. 🇺🇸

[@kevinluschak5241]

Such a great film!

[@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

[@kevinb3812]

WheW! But you made it back alive!

[@Zeebad_1st]

Burt Reynolds was proper 70's hard bastard there.

[@ElleSimon-wi1cm]

I read the book (which is great) and then saw the movie. Burt Reynolds WAS Lewis. He was astounding. This movie shows what ordinary people can and will do to survive.

[@austex995]

We ran the Chattooga River where this was filmed, very freaky experience I highly recommend - you come around some bends and immediately realize you are seeing exactly what you saw in the movie, you're waiting to get shot at as you scan the hills around you . . . and going under the bridge with the banjo player or putting out amongst the old, rusted wrecked cars that are still there all these years later. Very unsettling but a great river to run, only one class IV rapid so pretty easy run - if you enjoyed the movie do it!!

[@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.

[@TnTAdventuresPhotography]

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

[@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

[@leebritnell2405]

Subscribed,excellent stuff!

[@alanrice39]

This movie set off a white water canoeing craze in the seventies that carried on a couple decades until kayaking took over

[@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

[@juancatfish1]

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

[@MLStanleyK]

When 'Deliverance' came out it was the 'IT' movie to see and I took my 18 year old girlfriend to see it, not really knowing what it was about and what those infamous scenes were about. She was very quiet leaving it and about 20 minutes later she yelled at me, 'Why did you take me to that??!!" (Lololol.....ah....memories!)

[@kevinb3812]

My Mom sat it out when Dad & sons (too young I might add) were watching this crazy story!

[@johnolson7319]

Error in the video: Burt Reynolds posed nude for the first issue of Play Girl not Cosmopolitan

[@JohnCunningham-sy5ug]

I have only watched once in the theater when it came out it was a game changing. I remember it vividly.

[@walterhoenig6569]

James Dickey is also a tremendous poet.

[@nolotrippen2970]

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

[@waynefoote3781]

This movie is Burts BEST PERFORMANCE!! And It seems so real when you watch it!! John Voight Had a surreal role as well as Ned Beatty!!

[@stevengalindo7932]

i have only seen this on TV where it got sanitized. but I loved Lewis going after the hillbillies with bow and arrow. when I discussed the movie with my dad later (who was a police officer), he said, "If you don't become the predator, you'll always be the prey." His statement and this film have stuck with me all these years later.

[@sunnyscott4876]

Deliverance is an amazing life changing movie 🎬.

[@GaryT1952]

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

[@w.harrison7277]

Young men desire adventure that can only be found in the Wild, but too late they discover that the Wild is a deadly place with traumatic consequences. Your friend that said he preferred cycling over rock climbing didn't tell you the real reason he quit climbing is because he had the shit scared out of him.

[@LVQ-so5th]

I've done a small bit of river kayaking. To do the Chattooga in a canoe is something special and much more difficult than it looks.

[@kevinb3812]

And those guys appear to have No flotation... it was the early days.

[@ProfMadnesS]

Awesome review!

[@LD-qj2te]

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

[@PaulVickers-n6k]

Any banjos playing

[@sethkaicer319]

You've got a purdy mouth Rocky😮

[@The444traveler]

I just finished watching it for the 1st time Dec 2024 Glad to get these extra tidbits. They got away with it all?? Well.... maybe if they're not haunted by the memories.

[@chrisbishop1571]

I remember hearing that the river from the movie was used in the summer Olympics

[@cpuuk]

A great film.

[@Buddycoop1]

In my top ten file clips is when the camera zeros in on Burt holding his bow back. Then he takes the hick out.

[@joelwexler]

Very interesting! Nobody does this today without a helmet. People would look at you like you're an idiot. I loved how they woo hoohed the first little class 1 they did.

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Good video👍

[@edmontonoilerfan6648]

Just a great movie...no matter what side of the line you came from...

[@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

[@marksamuelsen2750]

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

[@JessicaMcGowan-bu4ls]

One of my favorite quotes about this film is a film critic saying "whatever Ned Beatty got paid for that scene, it was not enough", I agree. Now for something unbelievable, I was dating my husband when we saw this film. It was years later when I realized I did not fully understand the sexual assault, yeah you read right. It is ok if you are laughing that is why I am 'sharing' this. I laugh about it now myself. After that my nickname from the date who became my husband was 'purity pinker', ( pirate's girlfriend in a cartoon).

[@TheVidkid67]

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

[@Baked1ne]

Burt was too cool for school

[@ludicrous7044]

My favorite scene was when they opened the water valves on the dam! When the water was coming they shook the camera for effect! If there was no CGI I wonder how they managed to release that much water. It hitum so hard it washedum into the next area code!!😁😋

[@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. 😂🤣

[@johnwilcox4078]

I have paddled the Chattooga River in my old Dagger RPM kayak. I have a lot of respect for that river. There have been at least 39 drownings since the movie came out, which is when the US Forest Service started keeping track of such things. But i have never paddled the Five Falls area, or Section IV, it is for experts only and is a sucession of Class 4 and 5 rapids! It can be safely experienced with one of the three approved guided rafting companies that operate on the Chattooga.

[@edsmith4821]

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

[@haroldbirge6881]

😎Great movie 🐶✌️

[@ponyboymb]

Classic movie ❤❤

[@TheSaltydog07]

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

[@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]

🤣

[@kevinb3812]

It's not nature, it's the creeps that'll get ya!

[@ConnieinVirginia]

This was a really good movie.

[@jozellewhitmire5081]

The "Sooey" scene has to be one of the most horrifying pieces of movie history - forget the greatest horror pictures of all time.......this one was true hideousness at its best.

[@colinwilkinson5450]

Great movie one of the best

[@blackholeentry3489]

My aunt, a Jehovah Witness, did not like it!

[@kratibnoi10310]

Great!

[@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?"

[@blueheelerfriend8450]

Cult classic for me and many others. Also I think one of Burt's best ever movies!

[@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.

[@theone861]

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

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kevinb3812]

So True!

[@lawrencequave7361]

In my opinion the winning of Academy Awards is much like that of winning a professional sports contest (e.g., the Super Bowl). The best Super Bowl game is not the one that's won by a rout but the one where every second is one of intrigue and doubt about the outcome until the play is over. It's the game where either team could have won were it not for a couple of strokes of bad luck that could just as much happened to one team as the other. With respect to Academy Awards, the general feeling should be similar; i.e., "They were ALL excellent movies. Everyone who had anything to do with any of them are truly remarkable individuals." Among the winners there ought to be some amount of remorse, "That THEY should have won because they were every bit as good as we were." Judges should be agonizing for hours: "I just can't decide. Give me a coin." Burt Reynold's Cosmo shoot (for example) should have had no impact on his acting award. It had NOTHING to do with the movie. 'Politics' ruins everything ... even when it only involves politics itself.

[@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.

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Love the iH Scout 800

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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.

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voight was freaked out by that climb and said later he almost died.

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It's a true Classic !! Burt Reynolds was always the Alpha Male, drawing both male and female fans.

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