Deliverance

Amazon.com One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fellow, Burt Reynolds plays a strapping hunter-gatherer in urban clothes, Ned Beatty is a sweaty, weak-willed boy-man, and Ronny Cox essays a spirited, neighborly type. Together they decide to answer the ancient call of men testing themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river. What they don't understand until it is too late is that they have ventured into Dickey's variation on the American underbelly, a wild, lawless, dangerous (and dangerously inbred) place isolated from the gloss of the late 20th century. In short order, the four men dig deep into their own suppressed primitiveness, defending themselves against armed cretins, facing the shock of real death on their carefully planned, death-defying adventure, and then squarely facing the suspicions of authority over their concealed actions. Boorman, a master teller of stories about individuals on peculiarly mythical journeys, does a terrifying and beautiful job of revealing the complexity of private and collective character--the way one can never be the same after glimpsing the sharp-clawed survivor in one's soul. --Tom Keogh Product description Deliverance
ASIN: 6305558159
VSKU: 5ALWH00008MF_ns
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Jon Voight|Burt Reynolds|Ned Beatty|Ronny Cox|Ed Ramey|Billy Redden|Seamon Glass|Randall Deal|Bill McKinney|Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward|Lewis Crone|Ken Keener|John Boorman|James Dickey
Binding: Dvd
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Condition Notes: The DVD is in good condition. Disc comes in original case with original artwork.